[ic] Priority Mail

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Thu Nov 29 22:44:00 2001


nobody got priority mail to work? come on guys im dying here.
----- Original Message -----
From: <steve@moddepot.com>
To: <interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 8:42 PM
Subject: Re: [ic] Priority Mail


> I spoke with Jim privately and we tried a bunch of things and still no
luck.
> can somebody please help me. I need this working tonight.
> www.moddepot.com/shipping I put the files there so you can tell me what's
> up. thanks in advance. I will personally paypal you some money if you help
> fix this problem.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Balcom" <jim@idk-enterprises.com>
> To: <interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 4:07 PM
> Subject: Re: [ic] Priority Mail
>
>
> > On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 steve@moddepot.com wrote:
> >
> > >>How can I get priority mail working? I've tried everything and it just
> wont
> > >>show as a option. I have the zone and price charts. Please help ASAP
> since I
> > >>need to convert my business to usps cause FedEx has screwed me 3 times
> so
> > >>far.
> >
> > Did it feel good? FedEx is very good at it. But, they are not as good at
> it
> > as UPS.
> >
> > Here's the short course in using Priority Mail.
> >
> > shipping.asc has got have entries in it for Priority. Here is mine:
> >
> > uspspm  Priority Mail   weight  0       0       e Nothing to ship!
> >
> > uspspm  Priority Mail   weight  0       150     u PriorityMail [value
> > name=zip filter=digits default=22306] {}
> >
> > uspspm  Priority Mail   weight  150     999999  e @@TOTAL@@ lbs too
> > heavy for Priority Mail {}
> >
> > That is actually 3 lines, and the columns are tab delimited.
> >
> > My zone table 220.csv, has had a column added to it called 'Priority
Mail'
> > which matches the second column in shipping.asc. In 220.csv I added a
> column
> > labeled 'Priority Mail' and populated it with the data in the first
column
> > for UPS Ground. It seems pretty close.
> >
> > My rate tables are in PriorityMail.csv. Someone on the list made them up
> and
> > posted them. Pattern them after whatever tables you presently have.
> >
> > I think that you need a PriorityMail.csv.numeric. I've got no idea what
it
> > is, or why. Just make it. Pattern it after comparable ones in that
> > directory.
> >
> > Go into dbconf/default_db (in my case). Copy something else to
> > PriorityMail.dbm and edit it to suit the Priority Mail names.
> >
> > And, finally, go into country.txt and make sure that you have a line
like
> > this:
> >
> > US      US      fdxg fdxb fdxa uspspm   United States
> >    ^tab^  ^tab^                      ^tab^
> >
> > The order that those shipping methods are in will determine the order
that
> > they appear in in the drop-down menu.
> >
> > I also recommend going into catalog.cfg and adjusting mv_shipmode to
> > Priority Mail.
> >
> > Go in to the Admin interface and apply changes. And, then restart the
> > server.
> >
> > Maybe some of these steps are superfluous and unneeded. I dunno. I just
> know
> > that I've added a few shipping methods this way and it works.
> >
> > I hope that it works for you!
> >
> >
> > -= Jim =-
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------
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> >
> > Tagline for Thursday, November 29, 2001 at 18:45 PM:
> > If you don't care where you are, then you ain't lost.
> >
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