USPS Api's

Savatage · 2008-03-11

With USPS being extremely competitive now for small shipments I have been looking into the Postal Services API's to get:
-Calculate Rates
-Find Zip Codes
-Verifing Addresses
-Track & Confirm
http://www.usps.com/webtools/welcome.htm

I finally got my USPS registration Username & password but i was wondering if anybody has been fooling around with this already w/Nav to give me a leg up. In the past a created my own USPS shipzone chart to calculate by weight, from zip -> to zip - and thatnks' to some Kriki help works beautifully.
http://www.mibuso.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17866

But due to the fact that these guys can change there rates, I'm not looking forward to updating 2000+ prices. Now I'm figuring with these API's that I can use their system to get what i need.

Either way wish me luck, seems to be alot of Googled info out there.

ara3n · 2008-03-11

You are looking to connect through webservice to UPS?

Yes I've seen it. It's requires some work.

Savatage · 2008-03-11

Well USPS (Postal Service) not UPS - but yes.

Since we do thousands of Interner Orders monthly It would be nice to validate addresses, calculate postage and pick the best way to ship n such at the click of a button. I realize this might require more time than I have, since we are also looking into Expandit's Moble Sales Granule. We'll see which one the bosses perfer to move on first.

It's already easy to track with
Hyperlink('http://trkcnfrm1.smi.usps.com/PTSInternetWeb/InterLabelInquiry.do?origTrackNum=%1',TrackingNo);

added FYI info:

for Endicia Users:
http://www.endicia.com:80/status.cfm?pic=%1
For TNT Users:
http://www.tnt.com/webtracker/tracking. ... nt=.&cons=%1
For UPS Users:
http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/proc ... &tracknum=%1

From what I've been seening perhaps it's easier to wait for the Next Version, seems to be chock full of goodies

Marije_Brummel · 2008-03-12

Just send me an email. Been there, done that, got it running.

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