this is the email i was sent by USPS - please tell me if this makes any difference...
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Dear customer,
On May 12, 2008 several APIs will be altered in response to the USPS Price Change (http://www.usps.com/prices/welcome.htm). While the APIs listed below will remain structurally and syntactically backward compatible, data changes are possibly substantial enough to affect some integrators. Please contact
icustomercare@usps.com (1-800-344-7779) with any specific schema or enumeration questions.
Effective 5/12/2008, the APIs will consist of the following changes:
∑ Integration of domestic and international price changes across all Web Tools APIs that use rates
∑ Merchandise Return API Insurance/Fee calculation updated for 2008 Price Change
∑ PriorityMail/StandardB API Service Standard data updated
∑ First Class Mail International API supports three shapes, machinability
∑ Deprecated GlobalLabelAirmail, GlobalLabelExpress APIs are no longer available
∑ IntlRate API supports three First Class Mail International product shapes now (new enumerations), addition of optional machinable attribute
∑ Signature Confirmation API reflects changed SC fee
Most impacted will be the integrators using RateV2 and IntlRate as shown below.
RateV2: Besides the price differences, there are new services and a renamed service. This also changes the order of the services within the response. Note that RateV2 is in maintenance-only mode and integrators should upgrade to RateV3 to obtain the latest features.
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then there was a bunch of code that i dont wanna post unless i need to.
again, my INT'L PRIORITY MAIL doesnt calculate correctly
