[ic] Extending a UPS Zone File above 150

Jon interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Wed Jan 15 21:28:00 2003


> > upsg    UPS Ground      weight  0       150     u Ground
> >
> > Change the 150 to something higher... 600 I guess, and
> > then make sure you have every pound 150 - 600 covered in the rate table.
> > Or at least an entry for every weight you'll need a match for.
> > That I think would be the Interchange part
> > But does/would UPS, or whatever carrier,  provide such a rate table ?
> >
> > Jon
>
> UPS has discount rate for over 200 lbs, called "hundred weight".  That rate
> is not available form the materials they distribute, but can ba calculated
> with their software "worldshop". So, there might be a formular for that.

    Worldship

>
>
> If it's possible to get that formular, it might be do the lookup up to 200
> lbs. then, switch to formular after that.
> UPS may not be willing to give out that formular though, or those response
> to 800-pickups have no idea.

    I confess, I did not research the higher weights from UPS. I don't expect
to be above 10 pounds myself.

>
>
> >    First of all make sure you have read/write access to shipping.asc and
> the
> > associated rate table file. This may not be the case for a cPanel hosted
> site.
>
> Well, well, don't complaint to much on cpanel though. You can still use
> admin interface to edit, or make a new one.

    Na, not complaining at all. :))  Just wanted to give him a heads up.

Jon