* Melissa <suppressed> [2005-09-13 13:15]: > From perusing the list archives, I gather that tying into > the real-time shipping modules for UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc, was > not recommended due to unreliability and slow responses from > those systems? > > Are the response times / reliability still problematic? Is > anyone using the real-time services? It depends on what you consider to be reliable. During the 2004 shopping season (Nov-Dec), UPS slowed down considerably, and many requests errored out over a period of several hours (on more than one occasion). > If you're using your own shipping tables (as we are), what method do you > use to keep up with the changes in rates & fuel surcharges? [Warning: shameless plug follows.] Business::Shipping comes with 2005 offline tables for UPS as well as scripts to screen-scrape the new fuel surcharges every month. I wrote a tool to convert the tables when UPS updates them once per year, but I've yet to release it (no one has asked, and I haven't gotten any round tuits). http://search.cpan.org/dist/Business-Shipping/ -- Daniel Browning <suppressed> - Kavod Technologies. Random Fortune: I can relate to that. _______________________________________________ interchange-users mailing list suppressed http://www.icdevgroup.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
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