RE: [mv] Missing shipping charges

["Vikberg, Veine" <Veine.Vikberg@prexar.com>]

At 11:08 AM 02/09/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi list
>
>I hope someone can help me with this problem.
>
>I'm a developer that has 'inherited' around 20 stores made in Minivend.
>The person that was developing them left the company some time ago, and
>now there is a problem with one of them, and I don't really have the
>in-depth knowledge to see where the problem is.
>
>The story is that the client is shipping live lobsters out from Maine
>with FedEx Next Day air. It works perfectly for all states, except Ohio
>and Indiana, where for some (if not all) zip codes it just omits the
>shipping. One code that we know of is 45502 and another is 44111, both
>in Ohio.
>
>I don't know where to start, and I don't know what code I should(?)
>include in the mail. I'm taking the shipping from a fedex_zone.asc
>and the version of Minivend is V3.14-3 (yes it's old, I know *that*)
>
>
>Thankful for any help I can get.
>

Well, I don't have that fedex file in any of my old Minivend 3x installs, 
so I am guessing it was added by the developer?  In any case, assuming it 
works something like the UPS setup in Minivend, the fedex_zone.asc file 
would relate zip-code ranges to zone numbers, which would be referenced in 
another file along with some other criteria to get the actual shipping 
charges.  So the first step is to look in fedex_zone.asc to see if a range 
is missing.  I noticed the two zip codes you mentioned are relatively close 
numerically, so this is a good bet.  If the ranges are contiguous, then 
look for the file which contains the actual shipping charges to see if 
there is valid data for the range.


Ed,

Thanks for your response so quickly. Now it seems like the ranges are in
there
and the other file that I *think* is connected to this file is
FedExNextDayStandard.csv
but I don't know how they work with eachother. I'm including these two files
as 
attachments. I've tried other zip codes from Indiana now, and it omits them
all.
<sighs> I wish I had the time from the company to really *learn* this from
the ground up
and not like this 'crash-course' fix learning.

Thanks again

	Regards
	  ~Veine

fedex_zone.asc

FedExNextDayStandard.csv