[thelist] [UPS] Complex Shipping

Chris.Marsh at Callserve.com Chris.Marsh at Callserve.com
Wed Apr 20 12:09:20 CDT 2005


> >>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

I wonder if it was a misrepresentation of currency - $11.14 -> $8.83 could
be the exchange rate from US dollars to Canadian dollars, and the other way
around could be the exchange rate from Euros to US dollars.

Just a thought :)

Regards

Chris Marsh

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