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It appears all non US transactions fail to compute the USPS postage correctly. We are looking into this and have no work around. This will take some looking into. I have not identified where the error is at, the shoppe or USPS or something else.

Hopefully I will have this corrected very soon.

Wayne
 
wayne,
if you pay more then the actual for USPS in my previous order, pls let me know and I will add those on the comming ordersssssss
takecare!
 
OK, sorry for the trouble. The USPS kindly changed their keywords without notifying the zillions of ecommerce sites that use their xml server to compute the postage.

After calling USPS finally, I was able to get them to send me the following email.
[ QUOTE ]
Dear USPS customer,

The International Rates API engine was recently updated which in turn led to
some unexpected changes to the XML values we respond with. Below are the
affected SvcDescription Strings and what they are now being returned as:

Global Priority Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (large) IS NOW Global Priority
Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (Large)
Global Priority Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (small) IS NOW Global Priority
Mail - Flat-rate Envelope (Small)
Global Priority Mail - Variable Weight (single) IS NOW Global Priority
Mail - Variable Weight (Single)
Airmail Letter Post IS NOW Airmail Letter-post
Economy (Surface) Letter Post IS NOW Economy (Surface) Letter-post

These changes will affect your shopping cart's ability to parse through the
list of possible international services. Please verify/modify your parsing
selections to reflect these changes in order to ensure accurate parsing and
the display of all available options to your end customer.

USPS Internet Customer Care Center
[email protected]
800-344-7779
7:00AM - 11:00PM EST
0054


[/ QUOTE ]


I was able to change and fix all but one. We only use two of the many USPS shipping options. Air Mail and Global Priority Variable. The Global priority variable is still broken, but, for now we have enabled Global Priority large which is similar or close enough to variable that we will use this until we can resolve the global priority variable.

Sorry for any troubles.

Wayne
 

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