USPS Ground Advantage & FedEx Ground Economy Rates

[johnvoncolln]

Wondering if there are any plans in place to update USPS and FedEx rates to utilize these new existing and upcoming rates?

FedEx: No longer SmartPost, they've changed this to Ground Economy since they are no longer relying on USPS for last mile delivery.
https://www.fedex.com/en-us/shipping/ground/economy.html

USPS: They are combining First-Class Package with Parcel Select Ground to create a new service called Ground Advantage. As far as I know, they are discontinuing both of these separate services, but not sure how the api will react.
https://www.usps.com/ship/ground-advantage.htm

[fballiano]

none of my customers use these modules so I can't help here, the only way I can suggest is develop this feature and then create a PR to add it to the core

[michaelj000]

It's a simple fix to add USPS Ground Advantage - edit Usa/Model/Shipping/Carrier/Usps.php , in function getCode under 'method' array add:

'1058' => Mage::helper('usa')->__('USPS Ground Advantage'),

and under service_to_code array add:

'1058' => 'Ground Advantage',

Flush cache and the option should appear in the USPS shipping method list in config, select it and it'll work front and admin.

That worked for me.

[fballiano]

there are a lot of "first class package":

should all of them go?

[michaelj000]

No - all of the international methods and the other First Class options still apply, it is just the two - First Class Package and Parcel Select Ground - that have changed.

[fballiano]

so the first 3, 0_FCP, 53, 61?

[michaelj000]

Just 0_FCP and 61, the hold for pickup is still an option with USPS.

[fballiano]

done in #3413 thank you! it would be great if you could give it a test :-)