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Chris Howe commented on OFBIZ-603:
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Thank you for clarifying.
For the record, I wouldn't have taken much offense if your intention had been
to mock me (YMMV with others ). It was just unclear to me what distinction you
were trying to make.
After looking into UPS further, it would appear as there is no API change at
this time as Worldship 9.0 was made available for download on January 1st and
the API spec that is offered today does not have the "03" option. I suppose a
screen-scraper approach would be possible to utilize the "03" option on their
website, but I hardly think that would be worth the effort to write or the
inefficiency that would run on a system. I have not looked into whether their
address validation tools respond with address type, so that may be another
option.
As far as my second question:
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If we can allow UPS to determine the address type, should we let them or should
we supply the information? as we may know more about our customer's location
than UPS does.
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I looked up my home address, it came up residence, I looked up my neighbor's
address and it came up commercial. So this may be a valid question to consider
(or I may need to look into what kind of services my neighbor is offering ;) ).
The third question regarding checking for UPS's diligence in correcting an
erroneous address type, is particularly important as if there is no change
between quote and invoice, this is an honesty tax payable to UPS. (All jokes
aside about the law offices of Dewey, Cheetum & Howe :) on whether you would
write code to expose your client to this tax). If omitting field 49 from your
XML returns the commercial quote and commercial invoice, perhaps no enhancement
should be pursued.
I have heard from some that UPS doesn't correct package weights downward (ie
package weighs 20 pounds, shipper claims it weighs 25) and are able to then
qualify in some cases for Hundredweight (200 pounds or more) shipping rates on
that shipment. If they're not verifying this, what are the chances they're
verifying the residence flag? From an ethical point of view as a consultant or
as an employee who's interest are you supposed to be developing solutions for
UPS or your employer/client? I think I wrote a long-winded answer in college
to that question that avoided actually answering the question. :)
> Shipping entry does not provide the ability for the user to select whether
> you're shipping to a business or a residence?
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> Key: OFBIZ-603
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-603
> Project: Apache OFBiz (The Open for Business Project)
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Affects Versions: SVN trunk
> Reporter: Tim Ruppert
> Fix For: SVN trunk
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> I'm not sure about the other providers, but I know for UPS you can send along
> a different flag in the XML that indicates whether or not they're shipping to
> a residence or a business address. This DOES in fact affect the estimate
> that UPS provides. I believe that this option should be in the interface and
> should get built into the shipping feeds to the providers as people find a
> necessity. Thoughts?
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