Shipping Costs - a plan to revamp the postage calculations in the shopping cart
This fall will mark five years since the shopping cart feature was added to the DeJankins website. When it was originally set up, there wasn’t a great way of handling shipping, but we tried to provide fair and reasonable options based on the number of items or the weight of a package. Over the past 54 months it has been obvious that a better solution has been needed.
Over the next two weeks, while away on a family vacation, I hope to make time to reconstruct the shipping calculator for our shopping cart function so that postage is calculated more accurately. Rather than having the same two processes for anyone ordering from any state in the USA, we will hopefully implement functionality which will factor in US Postal service zones and rates. It is our hope that the new system will be more economical for all DeJankins customers across the board.
Another major issue with the current system is that only orders from addresses in the United States have been accepted. We hope to expand initially to include Canada, and hopefully later the rest of our world. But this is a bigger project than can be accomplished in just the next couple of weeks. We will see what can be done. Whatever the case, hopefully by the end of May there will be a better solution in place for calculating postage for most of our customers.
Thanks for your patience with us during this attempt to update this process.