Re: Shipping charges

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rediculous.

The carriers have interfaces.  Most of them will provide you with the
software or the protocols to perform those tasks.  You can connect and get
the rates, if you do enough business with them to warrant.  Call them.
Today, they almost always can provide you with a connection that will let
you rate the charge and (sometimes) even print the forms.


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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional System Administrator
 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

"The sum of all human knowledge is a fixed constant.
    It's the population that keeps growing!"

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa, Jr. <barsa2@ibm.net>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: Shipping charges


>At 06:22 AM 06/13/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>
>I don't know about Fed Ex, but both USPS, UPS and UPS Air (there are two
>varieties Red and Blue Label), have zones, based on where you are.
>
>I have written software in the way long past (System 3/6), to automatically
>calculate the zones from the zip code, but this is not trivial, changes all
>the time, and of course varies based on your location in the US.  Once you
>have the zone, you then have to go to another table of rates (which change
>all the time) and calculate the freight costs.
>
>If you want more information please send private mail.
>
>Al
>
>
>>Our client wants me to load down all the Fed Ex, UPS, US Postal rate
>>tables to the AS/400 and write software to calculate the weight of each
>>shipment and based on its destination - the shipping charges(national and
>>international locations).
>>
>>I am looking to see if anyone has software on the AS/400 where we can pass
>>the weight and to/from zip codes into and then receive the charges back.
>>Then I can create the data for the order for shipping.
>>
>>Does anybody have this as an off-the-shelf component?
>>
>>Hank Heath
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