Comments on: How to set up Magento with USPS shipping methods and get permission to use the USPS production API

By: Emelia Jacaruso

Emelia Jacaruso — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:55:12 +0000

Awesome post, I’m a huge fan of your blog, keep on writing these great posts, and I will be a regular visitor for a very long time.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:26:27 +0000

Same trouble here, but it does not appear to be USPS. I have tried: http://production.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll?API=Verify&XML=8 Wildwood DriveOld LymeCT06371
(a test string to the production servers from USPS documentation) and I get a valid response. If I change the “MYUSERID” to something other than mine, I get an authentication error. USPS appears to work.

USPS is:
Enabled
Gateway: http://production.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPI.dll
Container: Variable
Size: regular
Machineable: Yes
Max pkg wt: 70
Handling Fee: Fixed,Per Order,4.00
No Free method
All Allowed Countries

Not a lot to do here… any insight?

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 19:45:30 +0000

I am having the same trouble… moved to production servers but still no luck. One thing, I received a user id that has both username and password… enter username in userid field in Magento? Thanks for this post Asher, apparently it is sorely needed!

By: rakhi

rakhi — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:11:54 +0000

Hi Asher,
I am integrating the USPS shipping method in magento, i am using the registered user id and also i tries by using the following gateway urls http://production.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPI.dll/ and also with http://testing.shippingapis.com/ShippingAPITest.dll but i am getting the following error message i.e. This shipping method is currently unavailable. If you would like to ship using this shipping method, please contact us.
Please let me know which gate way url have to use.

By: Pit Silas

Pit Silas — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:56:24 +0000

Thanks for writing about this. There’s a heap of great tech info on the internet. You’ve got a lot of that info here on your site. I’m impressed – I try to keep a couple blogs somewhat live, but it’s a struggle sometimes. You’ve done a big job with this one. How do you do it?

By: Margo

Margo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:02:15 +0000

Thank you so much for this! I searched Magento’s support and forums everywhere and there was no mention of this requirement in order to get USPS quotes to work. And FedEx works without any such registration, so I couldn’t figure out what was wrong. Went through the hoops and it worked like a charm, THANK YOU

By: martinbeasnunez

martinbeasnunez — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:40:58 +0000

Hola!

I received the mail, authorization to use the api (said he used magento)
I try to configure the usps in magento but I can not select the shipping method
and I still leave a message:

“This shipping method is currently unavailable. If you would like to ship using this shipping method, please contact us.”

thnxs 4 ur support

By: W

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:19:38 +0000

Jen,

Yes! My shipping stopped 100% today. BAD!!!

By: jen

jen — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:27:06 +0000

suddenly today, the first class international stopped working? anyone else have this issue?

By: Asher Bond

Asher Bond — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:45:12 +0000

Jack,

Try production mode if you are using a stable release of Magento. If you contact USPS at the link I provided and explain your situation, they will recognize Magento and probably grant you a production API key as long as you are using a stable version of Magento. Once you are in production mode, you can still test it by previewing right before you check out. It should show a preview of the calculated USPS shipping costs in Magento without actually executing an order transaction.