http://www.freightcenter.com I would like to suggest adding a site to your great directory. FreightCenter.com provides information and free quotes on freight shipping throughout the country and international locations. There is never any obligation to purchase, and our Freight Shipping Calculator is available for anyone to post and use on their site for free. Please let me know if you would like any further information on our site. Thank you in advance for your consideration. We hope that you will enjoy our site and find that it will provide great value for your visitors.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Taylor
James Newton says: For the love of... STOP standing in line in front of me at the Post Office just to buy stamps! Use an on-line postage service.
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https://secure.shippingapis.com/registration/ The US Postal
Services insane legal agreement for use of its web API. They make you agree
that you will only use the API for USPS shipments. So you can NOT look up
a zip code to ship a package via UPS. And they will seriously try to verify
that you use this ONLY for USPS. I asked and was told that I could not even
use the API in a system where the customer MIGHT pick another service. E.g.
you can not display competitive rates.
And did you know that you are specifically prohibited from using the sample code? "The sample code, the documentation, and the trademarks/logos provided on this site and in hardcopy form are the intellectual property of USPS protected under U.S. laws. The information and images presented may not be reproduced, republished, adopted, used, or modified under any circumstances." Why would you publish sample code and then prohibit it's use?
Apparently the password field in the request is not checked. It must not be empty, but "password" works just fine.
People who are having trouble getting thier code working tend to post it an forget to remove thier userid, so if you google for "<RateV2Request USERID="... - http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tep/catalog/catalog/includes/modules/shipping/ups.php PHP code to get a rate quote from the web API. As if anyone would want to agree to their terms.
- http://www.focusresearch.com/gregor/sw/Scrape-USPS-ZipLookup/Scrape-USPS-ZipLookup-1.0.html
- http://ribbs.usps.gov/aec.htm Appears to be a pay per use system for address correction and ZIP+4 lookup.
- http://geekswithblogs.net/Lance/archive/2007/06/27/Shipping-APIs---USPS-and-FedExAgain.aspx Nice tutorial on how to setup and use the USPS API's
- http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tep/catalog/catalog/includes/modules/shipping/ups.php PHP code to get a quote from the UPS quick cost rate calculator via http get.