New USPS Integration in 4.19.1

General General Questions
1

The USPS integration has issues. It is nearly impossible to guess the settings for common shipping methods.

I am trying to set-up
USPS - Domestic First Class Mail
USPS - Domestic Priority Mail
USPS - International First Class
USPS - International Priority

I have both the above set-up but with very different settings that do not make sense.

Domestic First Class uses:
Service: Domestic Parcel Select
Price Type: Commercial
Processing category: Machinable
Rate indicator: DE-SCF
Destination entry type: Destination Sectional Center Facility

Domestic Priority Mail uses:
Service: Domestic Priority Mail
Price Type: Commercial
Processing category: Machinable
Rate indicator: SP-Single Piece
Destination entry type: None

These settings are not expected to be so different and it is a guessing game to get it to work.

I have tried many different settings to get USPS - International First Class and USPS - International Priority working properly but can’t get them to work.

It should not be this difficult and all seems to point to the integration not being correct. I have raised a ticket in support but it is not getting much attention.

2

I have another online store that runs different software. It’s a WordPress based plugin (not WooCommerce). I have USPS and UPS integrations on that site. I recently contacted them to see if they are going to update the software to accommodate the changes coming down from USPS and their response was that they already have the update coded, but in their tests, the USPS side of things is not ready. There are errors and problems, and USPS is slower than molasses in their responses to problem reports. So they are holding off releasing the new software until USPS gets their end of things fixed.
One of the problems is that they have introduced a rate limit, so the software can only make a certain number of calls per hour before it errors out.

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