ozpost shipping module

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Twas uploaded about 5mins ago. It'll take a day or two before the zencart team approve and make it available.

...waiting for the new file to pass muster.

I'm confused. Is there any other way?
How can parcel dimensions ever be determined by weight?

I think you are another of us that has been looking for the holy grail of shipping calculations.

Not so much a holy grail, but a method to exclude certain items from the AustPost/OzPost module. As most of my products weigh much less than 20kg, but some products exceed or approach the size limits of AusPost, the size constraints will govern where a customer orders one or more large sized products with several smaller items.

The AustPost module handles weight splitting of parcels (multiple parcels) by virtue of the the zencart code itself.
It also has it's own parcel splitting based on dimensions. Neither method solves the problem of splitting any given parcel in 'impossible' ways.

Currently the ozpost module makes no attempt to split parcels either by weight, or by dimension. The *practical* solution to this issue would be to use a courier service rather than Australia Post for such deliveries.

I *do* have some plans and ideas for ways to have parcel splitting for the ozpost module, but I've no idea how successful It is going to be (or when I'm going to find time to do it). If all else fails I am even considering adding one (or more) courier costings to the server code (which may be the best solution anyway).

Cheers
Rod

Do your plans include placing a "always ship separately" and/or "force shipping quote" checkboxes
in the vicinity of the dimension (LxWxH) input boxes on the add-product pages.
By allowing the seller to pre-determine the shipping method, this would help alleviate problems of parcels becoming oversize, especially where certain items in an order approach (say 70% or more) the threshold dimensions or weight set by the carrier.