=head1 NAME

Business::Shipping - Shipping cost calculator for UPS and USPS

=head1 INSTALLATION

 perl Makefile.PL
 make
 make test
 make install

=head1 DEPENDENCIES

 Bundle::LWP 
 Crypt::SSLeay
 XML::Simple
 XML::DOM
 Digest::SHA1
 Error
 Cache::FileCache
 Data::Dumper
 Class::MethodMaker
 
=head1 GETTING STARTED

 * For USPS: Sign up online for free:
 
 	- http://www.uspswebtools.com
	
	- The online signup will result in a testing-only account (only a small
	  sample of queries will work).  To activate the "production" use of your
	  USPS account, you must follow the USPS documentation.  Currently, that
	  means contacting the Internet Customer Care Center by e-mail or phone:
	    icustomercare@usps.com
		1-800-344-7779
    
 * For UPS: Sign up online for free:
 
	- https://www.ups.com/servlet/registration?loc=en_US_EC

	- You will get a User Id, Password, and Access Key from UPS.
 
=head1 USAGE EXAMPLES
 
 * See Shipping.pm POD documentation for API and usage examples.

 * This module is used by the Interchange E-Commerce software 
   (http://www.icdevgroup.org).  For a reference implementation of 
   Business::Shipping, see the UserTag/business-shipping.tag file, it implements
   a function that takes shipping-related arguments, builds a Business::Shipping
   object, then returns the calculated cost.
 
=head1 WEBSITE
 
 http://www.kavod.com/Business-Shipping
 
The website carries the most recent version, as well as instructions for
accessing the anonymous CVS repository. 

=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (c) 2003 Kavod Technologies, Dan Browning. All rights reserved. 
Licensed under the GNU Public Licnese (GPL).  See COPYING for more info.

=head1 AUTHOR

	Dan Browning
	Kavod Technologies
	<db@kavod.com>
	http://www.kavod.com

=head1 CREDITS

 * Kevin Old <kold@carolina.rr.com> got the USPS XML generator working.
 * sauoq on PerlMonks.org provided valuable commentary and ideas. 
 * bbfu on PerlMonks.org got Class::MethodMaker working with SUPER. 

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