I submitted this ticket: http://www.satchmoproject.com/trac/ticket/735
Unfortunately usps does not follow international standards..and who knows when/if they will (i.e. imperial/metric lol etc) Take a look at my patch as a possible workaround, it probably isn't the greatest fix but not sure what else you can do. On Feb 6, 9:22 am, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > I had this problem too. Perhaps my solution wasn't the best. The Post > Office expects "United Kingdom (Great Britain)", but the default > country name in Satchmo is set to "United Kingdom of Great Britain and > Northern Ireland". How I solved this was I went to the USPS site and > looked at their list of "supported" countries and how they are to be > spelled. We checked to see if USPS can accept an abbreviation or an > ISO 2 or 3 letter code or number, but couldn't figure it out. I just > changed the name of the country and everything worked. I wonder what > other country names will cause the same problem? > > On Feb 5, 7:37 pm, joshm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > No problem, I will have a look tonight and if I can get a patch as > > well... > > > - JM > > > On Feb 5, 5:31 pm, Chris Moffitt <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am pretty sure the issues is that it doesn't like the full country > > > name. I > > > believe it is supposed to use the abbreviation. > > > > I haven't looked into it but if you wouldn't mind putting in a ticket, > > > that > > > would be great. > > > > -Chris > > > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:51 AM, joshm <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > When I ask for a rate request from usps for a UK address I'm getting: > > > > > 2009-02-04 21:03:36,798 usps.shipper: INFO USPS Error: Code > > > > -2147218046: Invalid Country Name > > > > SPS Error: Code -2147218046: Invalid Country Name > > > > > Here is the XML that was generated through satchmo: > > > > > <IntlRateRequest USERID="myid" PASSWORD="mypw"> > > > > <Package ID="products"> > > > > <Pounds>0</Pounds> > > > > <Ounces>5</Ounces> > > > > <MailType>Package</MailType> > > > > <ValueOfContents>26.000000</ValueOfContents> > > > > <Country>United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland</ > > > > Country> > > > > </Package> > > > > </IntlRateRequest> > > > > > Does anyone have any input on this or have this working? Not sure > > > > where to start here... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Satchmo users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/satchmo-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
