UPS Number of Packages Combination

Obviously, if you have 6 different items (say 10 pounds each) all shipping in 1 box/package, you have 1 60 pound package. Change this to 6 seperate boxes/packages, and you have 6 10 pound packages. This makes quite a difference in price to UPS when, say, you're shipping overnight across the country (USA in this case). How can/does Zencart manage this?

(Right now when taking phone orders, we login to ups.com and use their "Calculate Time and Cost" utility to figure out shipping. This seems to match up perfectly with what Zencart calculates but only if we're only assuming "one box/package".)

I need this as well... thanks...

Yes. This has been a unanswered question for more than a year for me.

I had to play around with the shipping cost and prices of my products to find a happy medium but it seems as though zen cart totals all weights and calculates it as one package.

We lose a ton of money displaying the shipping cost to customer.

There has to be a fix for this in future editions.