I sent 3 boxes (same size) to a friend, the estimate price was $95 + 25 of shipping, the total price I paid was $248.36, even if they had all the measurements/weight within the app. They split my package in 3 and made me pay full price. (When you enter the weight, they don't say it's 50lb max) so they send 3 shipments (they could have done 2 instead of 3, but I guess the guy who packages my stuff was lazy and also entered different LxWxH for the exact same boxes). I contacted the support and got a refund of $60ish. The price you see in the app should be the price you'll pay, not +200ish % ... (Again, they have a picture + all the measurements/weight ...)
Excellent. I can't get over how hard this information has been to come by in the past.<p>It's always a ridiculous guessing game of LxWxH with penalties over Y dimensions total, with weight and shipping speed as confounding factors.<p>Then the calculus changes totally if you manage to fit the item into a slightly smaller box.<p>You have to juggle 3+ websites, entering a bunch of information that shouldn't really be relevant, to get to a cost number.<p>Then you go to ship something and the cost STILL is totally different from what the website said it would be.
According to the UPS Developer Kit's guidelines for the UPS Rating API[1] (the API used for getting shipping rates):<p><pre><code> Unapproved business models/usages
• Display of UPS rates side by side with competitor rates
</code></pre>
How does Shyp get around this restriction?<p>[1]: (page 25) <a href="https://www.ups.com/media/en/UPS_dev_kit_user_guide.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.ups.com/media/en/UPS_dev_kit_user_guide.pdf</a>
I wonder how their model scales since after all this time they haven't even expanded into Silicon Valley. I assume it only works with the density of a small to medium sized city like San Francisco.
so shippo lists shyp as a company/partner that uses their backend. does this mean shyp has moved away from shippo or that this is the resulting product built on top of shippo?