[ic] Set minimum shipping weight

[Dan Browning]

At 04:35 PM 4/14/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I am trying to set the minimum shipping weight for the total order.
>Each of my items are 1/2lb in weight.  If the user has a total weight of
>less than 1 in their cart, I need the total weight of the cart to be
>rounded up to 1.  Sounds simple, but I've tried the following:
>
>Tried the suggestions here:
>http://www.icdevgroup.org/pipermail/interchange-users/2001-June/009223.html
>
>Modified them a little like this:
>
>[seti total_weight][summary format="%s" total=1][/seti]
>[if scratch total_weight <= 1]
>         [seti name=weight value="1"][/seti]
>[/if]
>
>and tried it via Perl:
>
>[perl]
>
>if($Scratch->{weight} < '1') {
>         return $Scratch->{weight} = 1;
>}
>
>[/perl]
>
>
>Any ideas?  You might ask why I'm doing this....well, I've written a
>user tag for USPS to query their rates (just like UPS and Fedex) and
>they don't accept anything lower than a pound.  Once I get all the kinks
>worked out, I'll post the USPS tag.  It actually works quite nice, but
>the weight issue is a big bug.

How about inside your USPS tag, you just modify the passed shipping weight?

# USPS requires weight is at least 1 pound.
$weight  = 1 if $weight < 1;

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