What shipping do you offer?

I'm just curious as to what others offer for shipping on their sites? I'm wondering if it would be awful to offer through USPS only? Shipping UPS would be more of a hassle for us, it seems to be more expensive anyway, and I'm reading of the difficulties that come about with dimensional shipping versus shipping by weight.

Also, which services through USPS, UPS (if you offer it), etc do you offer (ie: First Class, Priority, etc)

There are probably thousands of variants, because there are thousands of shipping/courier companies.

Best thing to do is establish WHO you would like to use for shipping (can be one or more companies) and when you've decided who you will use, configure however many of the shipping modules you need, to behave according to these companies rates and charges.

this is just my humble opinion,
but we have seen in the past that picking 2 many carriers can get confusing,

keep things as simple as possible

my suggestion is to find 1 shipping company that can cover all your shipping needs

from as slow to as fast as YOU want to offer

then let them have those choises,

good
better
best

etc......

the stores we used to run used MZMT and we had 3 choices for each zone ( excluding ak hi and apo )

this was ground express and priority we didnt even display a shippers name

Absolutely agree with merlin - don't offer an array of choices...

... however...

One of my clients uses SIX shipping companies, and his choice of whom to use is based on:-

A. WHERE the customer is in the world
B. the WEIGHT of the customer's consignment

So, we have configured shipping to:

1. Determine the customer's zone
2. Calculate the shipping weight

And once 1 and 2 are known, the customer is presented with only ONE option... ie: Zencart works out which ONE out of SIX shipping options to display to the customer. The remaining FIVE options are HIDDEN.

schoolboy:

Absolutely agree with merlin - don't offer an array of choices...

... however...

One of my clients uses SIX shipping companies, and his choice of whom to use is based on:-

A. WHERE the customer is in the world
B. the WEIGHT of the customer's consignment

So, we have configured shipping to:

1. Determine the customer's zone
2. Calculate the shipping weight

And once 1 and 2 are known, the customer is presented with only ONE option... ie: Zencart works out which ONE out of SIX shipping options to display to the customer. The remaining FIVE options are HIDDEN.

Isn't this essentially what the USPS Webtools does? It takes the customers zip to find the "zone", then the weight, and figures the total from there?