I know PostNet is about to expire in couple of months. But today I had to create few shipping labels, and put to gather a simple function to assemble PostNet String. Mind you, this does not create the actual PostNet barcode. I use a PostNet Font to create the barcode, this is to create a valid PostNet string from a ZIP Code so you can print it with a PostNet barcode font. Pass your zip5 or zip9 to the function, it will return the string to be printed. (more..)

UPS has updated their API documentation recently. Compared to their last documentation, new version is pretty good. If you are planning to use UPS API, first create a UPS account, get hold of an API access Key and most importantly download the API documentation and go through it. UPS shipping service have far too many options and scenarios I cannot explain in a single post. UPS Shipping label creation has three parts, “ShipConfirm”, “ShipAccept” and “Void”. (more..)

UPS CityValidation is a rather deferent function from UPS Address Validation function. This function take two arguments, City and the State, and provide you with the highest and lowest ZIP Code in that area. Also this can identify misspellings or State/City mix-up and suggest you the correct one. If your City and State is correct, this will return VALIDATION = TRUE and ZIP Code Values. (more..)

  If the address verification completely failed, as it happened when I tried to verify UPS head office address in here [ AddressVerification('55 Glenlake Parkway NE','Atlanta', 'GA', '30328') ], this will return Type = Failure and Error Description message. (more..)

 USPS tracking API is extremely simple. All you need is API login from USPS and cfhttp tag to get it to work… well almost. Here I put together a custom tag to track USPS shipping details. (more..)

In my two previous posts I talked about FedEx API, and here is another post on the same API. Before FedEx provide you with access to their production API, FedEx request you to create set of sample shipping labels and mail them to FedEx office, my guess is, they want to verify you are capable of printing labels in the correct format. To do that, FedEx provide you with Certification Test Scenarios sheet with multiple categories, such as domestic, international and global shipping. (more..)

In my previous post, I talk about FedEx Address verification. Now this is a function to create FedEx Express Shipping Label. This will pass your shipment information and save the shipping label as a PDF file (or PNG, DPL, etc..) in to your hard drive. Before you run this code and start creating your own FedEx shipping labels, you need to register with FedEx and accrue an API access key.  Once you have that, you are ready to access FedEx test server. (more..)

Fedex shipping API is beautiful, soundly documented and trouble-free to work with. Before you plug your application with FedEx API, you must register with fedex and get an API Key, password and an account number and a Meter Number. It is not hard. Click here and follow the screen. (more..)