Re: libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl and USPS Ground Advantage shipping
On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 23:15:13 -0500
Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> wrote:
> I need to generate some shipping labels for drop-off at the USPS post
> office using USPS Ground Advantage.
>
> I have a USB thermal printer for the shipping labels,
> <https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08V28J3JS>.
>
> I see Debian carries libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl. I visited the
> module's GitHub at
> <https://github.com/ssimms/business-us-usps-webtools>, but the
> examples are on the lite side. I don't see a workflow similar to
> creating and printing a shipping label.
>
> My question is, can I use the module to create and print a shipping
> label for a USPS Ground Advantage package?
charles@jhegaala:~$ apt-cache show libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl
Package: libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl
Version: 1.125-2
Installed-Size: 74
Maintainer: Debian Perl Group <pkg-perl-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Depends: perl:any, libhash-asobject-perl, liburi-perl, libwww-perl
Description-en: Perl module enabling use of USPS Web Tools services
Business::US::USPS::WebTools provides a Perl interface to the US
Postal Service's Web Tools service. You need a UserID and Password
to use these services. See the Web Tools site at
http://www.usps.com/webtools/ for details.
Description-md5: 9c76d38752bb4c43151a4c8fe5224e7e
Homepage: https://github.com/ssimms/business-us-usps-webtools
Tag: devel::lang:perl, devel::library, implemented-in::perl
Section: perl
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/libb/libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl/libbusiness-us-usps-webtools-perl_1.125-2_all.deb
Size: 26856
MD5sum: 2323b592f161074380195b80880115e3
SHA256: 8341a6417ce7017af88cba6185042911c88d9024a2b886428ba0803946085c73
charles@jhegaala:~$
So I would start at the web site for the Web Tools.
http://www.usps.com/webtools/
On a brief scan of that site, I think the answer is yes, but you have
some software development ahead of you.
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