APO/FPO Shipping Fix. Does this look OK? Comments?

[rotaour]

It was recently brought to my attention that customers from APO/FPO's were not able to complete checkout as UPS does not ship to APO/FPO's and we only offer UPS shipping. We do, however, want to offer USPS shipping to those folks in APO/FPO's. We have about 20 customers that have signed up since we went live with our stores 7 months ago and only three of those have placed orders. Those that did had items shipped to their home addresses in the states.

 

Here's what I came up with and it seems to work on my testing store. Anybody see any issues with this? Seems OK to me, but I havent put a lot of thought into it. Please, let me know what you think.

 

I've enabled UPS and USPS shipping. Note: USPS shipping requires an account with USPS. At the time that I installed it(4-5 months ago and we never ended up offering USPS) the account had to be upgraded to a 'production' account as the testing accounts did not function properly. You will find this info in the contrib. Im using 1.47 2003/04/08, but I'm certain there are updates as I have a newer version in my contribs folder where I download possible upgrades to. So the production vs. testing server issues may have been worked out, I dont know, I havent had the time to look into it, but will eventually.

 

APO/FPO zones & ids in TABLE_ZONES:

id 6 - AF

id 7 - AA

id 8 - AC

id 9 - AE

id 10 - AM

id 11 - AP

 

On includes/modules/shipping/ups.php after function ups()(line 45) I've added;

//////////////////////////////////////// DISABLE UPS FOR APO/FPO ADRESSES ////////////////////////////////////////////////

$apofpo=array(6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11);

if (in_array($order->delivery['zone_id'], $apofpo)) {

$this->enabled = false;

}

//////////////////////////////////////// DISABLE UPS FOR APO/FPO ADRESSES ////////////////////////////////////////////////

This eliminates the UPS error and the UPS ship option altogether for APO/FPO addresses.

 

On includes/modules/shipping/usps.php after function usps()(line 45) I've added:

//////////////////////////////////////// DISABLE USPS FOR NON APO/FPO ADRESSES ////////////////////////////////////////////////

$apofpo=array(6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11);

if (!in_array($order->delivery['zone_id'], $apofpo)) {

$this->enabled = false;

}

//////////////////////////////////////// DISABLE USPS FOR NON APO/FPO ADRESSES ////////////////////////////////////////////////

This eliminates the USPS ship option altogether for NON APO/FPO addresses.

 

Note: According to http://www.oconus.com/ZipCodes.asp the only valid APO/FPO addresses are AA, AE & AP, so AF, AC and AM do not need to be in the apofpo array. I'm not really sure why ther're in the TABLE_ZONES at all.

 

Anyway, thats about it. Hope this will help someone and that its usable. Please let me know if you see any problems with it.

 

Matt

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I know this is an old post , but I am curious did it work out properly. I am having trouble getting UPS and USPS to work correctly together.