[ic] USPS Webtools APIs

[Jim Balcom]

On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Grant wrote:

G>>Have any of you guys used FedEx Ship Manager QuickShip?  It's a good piece
G>>of software, and I like it a lot better than FedEx.com for shipping.  If you
G>>can get them to hook you up with the kit you get a free thermal label
G>>printer, and the labels that come out are really nice.  You can set IC up to
G>>chron job a txt file of pending orders which you can import into QuickShip
G>>so there's pretty much no manual data entry.

About 2 years ago, just after FedEx Ground changed from RPS, they gave me
such a kit.

When I later tried to get support for the software, I was told that they no
longer support it and urged me into an account on FedEx.com

This method has the advantage that I can access my shipping history from
anywhere in the world. I get an e-mail from a customer - "Where's my
package?" and I can access the database from anywhere and work with them to
resolve it.

Setting up a cron job implies that one would be printing out all of the
labels at once. And, that's probably nice. It makes more sense for us to
print labels as we pack and ship, since we are using so many different
methods.


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