USPS's Web Tools On LaGarde.
LaGarde, Inc., a provider of e-commerce e-commerce, commerce conducted over the Internet, most often via the World Wide Web. E-commerce can apply to purchases made through the Web or to business-to-business activities such as inventory transfers. software, has contracted
with the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. Postal Service postal service, arrangements made by a government for the transmission of letters, packages, and periodicals, and for related services. Early courier systems for government use were organized in the Persian Empire under Cyrus, in the Roman Empire, and in medieval to incorporate USPS (1) (Uninterruptible Switching Power Supply) A power supply for a computer that contains its own battery and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) circuitry. See power supply and UPS. Web Tools into
its StoreFront software to meet the growing demand for accurate online
shipping charges. The Postal Service developed its USPS Web Tools APIs
to bring improved customer service solutions to e-commerce shippers.
LaGarde cites a Jupiter Media Metrix study that found as many as 63
percent of online shoppers abandoned their orders because of high
shipping and handling costs based on estimated flat-rate charges.
StoreFront's integration with USPS Web Tools' APIs sends both
the product's weight and dimensions to the Postal Service Domestic
or International Rate Calculator calculator or calculating machine, device for performing numerical computations; it may be mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic. The electronic computer is also a calculator but performs other functions as well. and returns an accurate shipping charge
at the time of checkout. Merchants using the solution can minimize
losses due to estimated shipping charges, and online shoppers receive
precise shipping costs for their purchases. Using the Postal Service as
a shipping solution for online purchases also affords merchants and
shoppers additional benefits, including lower shipping costs, Saturday
delivery and delivery to post office boxes.
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