[1.5]USPS activating & international shipping question

I feel like a stupid I can't find any answer to my questions.. I am using 1.5.1

I registered for USPS web tools and I received user ID and password.
I put my user ID and did some settings then checked how it comes out on check-out,
and of course, there was an error saying i have no autorization.

I've ran search over the forum and just called usps and ask them to activate my account -
and they told me that i need to test it before they can move my account to live server,
so i ask them how I test it? i saw that from e-mail i need to test api name and etc etc with this url with combination of xml and user ID, but what's the xml by the way?

answer i got was 'you will need some coding, you can look at user's guide on usps website, and you still don't know how to do it, you can find out partnership companies you can contact them to do it for you'

I don't think this process needs to be this hard so I thought if someone who already using usps with opencart can help me out in simple way anyone willing to help me? please?


and I have question on international shipping... as far as I know, If i want international customers to shop I need to create a geo zone that has every country in its list.
and from module - shipping - usps,
I see that option i can choose international shipping that i want to use, but at the same time i see option that i need to select which geo zone i'd like to use with usps - so i am confused...each shipping module allows to select only one geozone as i know..(except weight based), which means if i select US geo zone, then this usps module would not appear for international customers?
very confusing ..

activation prob solved..

I opened catalog/model/shipping/usps.php and find .dll address and changed it to the url usps gave me for the test,
and tested it as viewing the check out shipping option page from catalog view,
then went back to usps.php and changed url as it was..

Yea we should probably offer a switch for the test url in the admin like the other shipping modules have, as I think USPS requires you to access the test url one time before switching you to prod

I just went through this with a client today, and the USPS's response is:

USPS wrote:Thank you for contacting the USPS Internet Customer Care Center regarding Web Tools APIs. I would be happy to move your account to the production server however, I do not see any test logs under your UserID. I apologize that we are unable to move your account to the production server until a minimum of 2 valid test requests are received.

If you are using third party software, testing is not required. However, you must provide us with the name of the software you are using. We can then update your account.

So you don't need to do any testing, you can just e-mail them and tell them you're using third-party software, and the name is OpenCart.

Instead of creating a test system, maybe those instructions should just be added as help text in the USPS module?

Another good point