Shyp Goes Nationwide By Letting You Comparison-Shop Shipping Services

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&#x27;t get over how hard this information has been to come by in the past.<p>It&#x27;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&#x27;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&#x27;s guidelines for the UPS Rating API[1] (the API used for getting shipping rates):<p><pre><code> Unapproved business models&#x2F;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:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ups.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;en&#x2F;UPS_dev_kit_user_guide.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ups.com&#x2F;media&#x2F;en&#x2F;UPS_dev_kit_user_guide.pdf</a>

This is an advert, right? Why has it been on the front page for hours, YC funded?

So how does Shippo fit into all this? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goshippo.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;goshippo.com&#x2F;</a>

I wonder how their model scales since after all this time they haven&#x27;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&#x2F;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?