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Submitted by Insurrectus on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 20:38
Insurrectus

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 Joined: 08/22/2007
Spreading the word - Ubercart for president.

Hi There,
For the life of me I cannot seem to figure out how to properly configure the USPS Shipping Module to actually generate some kind of shipping label. Is this supposed to work?

I go to admin/store/orders/54/packages create a package then go to admin/store/orders/54/shipments/new but the only option I have is "Ship Manually".

USPS is enabled & configured with my account information. What am I missing here? My understanding of the Ubercart system is that the customer does not need to use the quoting system in order for the admin to prepare packages. Correct?

Thanks in advance for your guidance.

BTW: We just received our 2nd order today! And I'm still testing!

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permalink #1 Wed, 10/24/2007 - 08:51
Lyle

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 Joined: 08/07/2007
AdministratoreLiTe!

I haven't yet integrated USPS with the shipping and packages system. Part of the reason is that USPS doesn't have just one API for labels. There's one for Express, International, and a couple other things, but I didn't see one that was..."standard". I think I just don't have enough experience with the terms that the Postal Service uses, or something. If someone could point me in the right direction, this project will get done sooner.

permalink #2 Mon, 11/05/2007 - 14:36
VitaLife

Posts: 95
 Joined: 10/29/2007
Bug Finder

Hello Lyle,
I did a full USPS shipping integration last year for USPS in our shipping system, and I had some of the same problems. Here was my solution. Endicia. www.endicia.com was one of the 2 places that were approved to sell / print postage for USPS. The other being stamps.com. They have an API that lets you print labels, buy postage, etc. I've done this via the xml interfact, but they have anew web api that look like a great fit. I'be been shipping USPS and generatling labels with Endicia (and Dazzle) for over a year and it works well.
http://www.endicia.com/Developers/LabelServer/