[ic] Priority Mail

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Thu Nov 29 20:45:00 2001


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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