[ic] Heavy items

Peter Jakl interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Thu Feb 28 13:12:00 2002


PJ>>I have items >150 lbs. How would you add a shipping rule for UPS to
take an
PJ>>item that weighs 250 lbs, for example, to use the sum of the cost of
PJ>>shipping 150lbs. plus cost of shipping 100lbs?

>Will UPS ship things that are that heavy?
>I don't think so.
>You probably need to get a freight company (Wilson, Ohio-Pitt, Roadway,
>etc)
>to ship it for you.

I know UPS won't ship it. We still want to use the UPS tables to compute
a shipping cost. Using a different carrier will be done on the backend.
Sounds like the simplest is to extend the actual tables for the larger
weights.

Peter