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Re: UPS Shipping Returns $0.00 (Continued ... No Solution)
mikeh@minivend.com wrote:
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> Quoting Kyle Hayes (kyle540@quicknet.net):
> > If any one of these things does not match, you won't get any shipping
> > calculations. The system is a little, er, fragile.
>
> I have had a standing offer for 3 years for someone to come up with a
> better shipping system -- no takers besides myself. 8-) I have had quite
> a few suggestions that cover one specific situation to the exclusion
> of others, but no framework that is general enough to replace what is there.
>
> The problem with anything besides something which uses the standard
> UPS shipping files is that then users have to condition data. The way
> it is, you should be able to download each year's files from UPS as
> they change. The zone file is used unchanged, which I did because it
> would be common to use multiple files and reformatting each would be
> a huge problem. The rest of the tables can be conditioned once and
> forgotten -- and even that is just
>
> I think I am on solid ground when I say that something which uses
> general database principles is less fragile in operation than something
> which is all a special purpose routine. For instance, intuiting the
> mode names from the raw file would leave you vulnerable to format
> and name changes. My one special-purpose thing, the zone read, has
> been fortunate in that UPS has kept the format (such as it is) fairly
> consistent.
>
> I am still looking for *concrete* suggestions.
>
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