Bassman thanks for the post.
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Anyone else know of a shipping calculator that could be wrapped in a custom block. Hotscripts doesn't have anything that seems to work.

Im still looking for a solution to this problem. Anyone?

i'm looking, too. i'm setting up an ordering system using paypal, but i'm not overly fond of their shipping rate calculations...i'd rather have them a little more exact.

i'm looking at this javascript shipping calculator right now, but i can't get it to work just yet. i'm trying to call it from wfsection, if that makes a difference...still kinda n00b to it, and to javascript as well.

it would be cool to see this as a module, tho, apart from the oscommerce port. ups makes their rates available as ASCII files. seems like you could have a module that pasrses the files and calculates the shipping rate based on weight, and to/from zones. but, having been working on this for a while now, i know it's not THAT simple