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USPS Upgrade

The following was emailed to all FoxyCart admins that have live stores using USPS for rate requests. It is copied here for reference.

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What’s Happening

We’ve recently reworked our USPS (United States Postal Service) rate requests to use V3 of their rate request system. Though we plan on making some major improvements to shipping in the future, we feel this upgrade is important as it will improve the accuracy of some rates. As part of this upgrade, we are also fixing a bug we discovered this past week involving incorrect container names being sent to USPS.

To fix this, we’ll be updating our database with the correct container names and sizes which will affect all stores using USPS. While we make it a rule not to make changes that will affect live stores, because of the way this data is handled in our system, this is a system-wide change, and not a version specific change.

Affect On Live Stores Using USPS

Stores currently using USPS shouldn’t see any changes to the rates they are currently receiving from USPS on their FoxyCart checkout. Rather, this upgrade will allow you to be more accurate. Depending on your currently selected container type, your store may be automatically switched to the “VARIABLE” container type (which is what’s currently being used), so there should be no change to rates returned. You can get much greater accuracy by following the steps below, however.

What If You Don’t Take Action?

Your shipping container selection in the FoxyCart admin will most likely be reset to “VARIABLE”, and you should see no change in the rates being presented to your customers on checkout. We do recommend you change your settings as appropriate, however, as it will give you more accurate shipping rates for your customers.
Action You Need To Take

We plan on making this change over the weekend. Once we do, you should be able to login to your FoxyCart admin and update your container to be one of the following:

• VARIABLE
• FLAT RATE BOX
• FLAT RATE ENVELOPE
• RECTANGULAR
• NONRECTANGULAR

And set your package size to be:

• REGULAR
• LARGE
• OVERSIZE

Feedback and Questions

Please login to your store on or after Sunday and make sure the container type matches what you’re shipping and that this upgrade is working for your store. If you have questions, concerns, or success/failure reports please comment on this forum post.