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USPS Rating Tool allows you to rate a specific USPS service, or Rate Shop returning all available services for a given shipper/consignee combination (Domestic & International).

USPS Tracking Tool is a useful tool which tracks USPS parcels. Tracking result can be returned as summary or as a field set containing associated tracking data.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

Uses web services from USPS to take an address, verify it, find the zip+4, and format it in the standard fashion (abreviations, etc.) that USPS wants addresses in.

You can copy the formatted address into the system clipboard for ease of integration with other applications.

Also looks up and displays the following information with your address: Carrier Route, County, Delivery Point, Check Digit, LAC, eLOT, eLOT Ascending/Descending Indicator, Record Type Code, PMB Designator, PMB Number, Default Flag, and EWS Flag.

This PrecisionID USPS Postnet Barcode Font Package contains TrueType and PostScript fonts, each supplied in normal and light intensity. Planet and FIM barcode fonts are also included. The package also contains complete documentation, specifications, PrecisionID Font Formatting Components (TM) and implementation examples.

USPS Customs Forms Tool is a useful tool that will generate customs forms PS2976 (CN22) and PS2976A (CP72) on the fly. Print functionality has also been built into the DLL as well.

USPS Signature Confirmation Tool will generate signature confirmation labels on the fly. Print functionality has been built into the DLL as well.

USPS Express Mail Tool will generate Express Mail Labels on the fly. Print functionality has been built into the DLL as well.

USPS Carrier Pickup Tool is an application that can quickly and easily request, schedule, inquire or determine availability of a parcel pickup.

USPS Address Validation Tool is a useful tool that permits street level address validation along with zip code and city, state lookup capabilities.

Limitations:

· 30 days trial

USPS Delivery Confirmation Tool will generate Delivery Confirmation Labels on the fly. Print functionality has been built into the DLL as well.

The United States Postal Service (USPS) has on its web site an HTML form at http://www.usps.com/zip4/ for standardizing an address. Given a firm, urbanization, street address, city, state, and zip, it will put the address into standard form (provided the address is in their database) and display a page with the resulting address.

Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup Perl Module provides a programmatic interface to this service, so you can write a program to process your entire personal address book without having to manually type them all in to the form.

Because the USPS could change or remove this functionality at any time, be prepared for the possibility that this code may fail to function. In fact, as of this version, there is no error checking in place, so if they do change things, this code will most likely fail in a noisy way. If you discover that the service has changed, please email the author your findings.

If an error occurs in trying to standardize the address, then no array will be returned. Otherwise, a four-element array will be returned.
To see debugging output, call $zlu->verbose(1).

SYNOPSIS

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup::Address;
use Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup;

my $addr = Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup::Address->new(
Focus Research, Inc., # Firm
, # Urbanization
8080 Beckett Center Drive Suite 203, # Delivery Address
West Chester, # City
OH, # State
45069-5001 # ZIP Code
);

my $zlu = Scrape::USPS::ZipLookup->new();

my @matches = $zlu->std_addr($addr);

if (@matches) {
printf "n%d matches:n", scalar(@matches);
foreach my $match (@matches) {
print "-" x 39, "n";
print $match->to_string;
print "n";
}
print "-" x 39, "n";
}
else {
print "No matches!n";
}

exit 0;

Whats New in This Release:

· Adapt to yet another round of changes to the USPS Zip Lookup web site, courtesy of Eric Parker.
· Copyright date updates.

Auto USPS Customs Forms description
Firefox extension that will produce customs forms by submitting all of your recipient data to the USPS website ThAuto USPS Customs Forms is a Firefox extension that will automatically create customs forms. by submitting all of your recipient data to the United States Postal Services website and will combine all the separate forms into one file for easy printing.

This extension will read a comma separated value (CSV) file (which can be exported as a comma delimited text file from a spreadsheet or database program, e.g. Excel or Access) with recipient information and send the data to the USPSs Customs Forms website, which makes you visit 4 pages to just download one form.

It will not only download the PDFs for each recipient, but will combine them into one PDF file with two forms per page, instead of one, like USPS does for standard Form 2976, or combine the 4 pages required for the Form 2976-A into two pages. It is available through "Create USPS Customs Forms" in your "Tools" menu.

Requirements:

· Firefox: 1.5 3.0a1

Business::US::USPS::WebTools is a Perl module to use the US Postal Service Web Tools.

SYNOPSIS

use Business::US::USPS::WebTools;

# see subclasses for API details

*** THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE ***

This is the base class for the WebTools web service from the US Postal Service. The USPS offers several services, and this module handles the parts common to all of them: making the request, getting the response, parsing error reponses, and so on. The interesting stuff happens in one of the subclasses which implement a particular service. So far, the only subclass in this distribution is Business::US::USPS::WebTools::AddressVerification.
new( ANONYMOUS_HASH )

Make the web service object. Pass is an anonymous hash with these keys:

UserID the user id provided by the USPS
Password the password provided by the USPS
Testing true or false, to select the right server

If you dont pass the UserID or Password entries, new looks in the environment variables USPS_WEBTOOLS_USERID and USPS_WEBTOOLS_PASSWORD.

If new cannot find both the User ID and the Password, it croaks.

If you pass a true value with the Testing key, the object will use the testing server host name and the testing URL path. If the Testing key is false or not present, the object uses the live server details.

userid

Returns the User ID for the web service. You need to get this from the US Postal Service.

password

Returns the Password for the web service. You need to get this from the US Postal Service.

url

Returns the URL for the request to the web service. So far, all requests are GET request with all of the data in the query string.

response

Returns the response from the web service. This is the slightly modified response. So far it only fixes up line endings and normalizes some error output for inconsistent responses from different physical servers.

is_error

Returns true if the response to the last request was an error, and false otherwise.
If the response was an error, this method sets various fields in the object:

$self->{error}{number}
$self->{error}{source}
$self->{error}{description}
$self->{error}{help_file}
$self->{error}{help_context}

USPS Electronic Merchandise Return Tool is a tool which will generate Electronic Merchandise Return Labels on the fly. Print functionality has been built into the DLL as well.