[thelist] [UPS] Complex Shipping

Hassan Schroeder hassan at webtuitive.com
Wed Apr 20 11:43:48 CDT 2005


Joshua Olson wrote:

>>Ha, no, trick question. A couple of years ago I tried using the UPS
>>XML interface for a client. It *seemed* to work, *but* -- their own
>>HTML-based shipping calculator gave different results for identical
>>input.
> 
> Curious--- how different?  pennies or a measurable percentage?

My test case produced: $11.14 vs $8.83

And yet UPS "tech support" seemed remarkably unconcerned as well as
unable to explain which -- if either -- was correct, or why/how the
two results could possibly differ. :-)

I'm still boggled.
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