September 7, 2014 USPS will be implementing changes [#2333075]

Hello,

Some of my clients got an email from USPS that reads:

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Hello,

Thank you for using USPS Web Tools.

September 7, 2014 USPS will be implementing changes and additional features to the Web Tools APIs. Detailed release notes are available on the USPS Web Tools home page at www.usps.com/webtools.

The CAT/staging environment is now available to developers for testing using your Web Tools user ID and the following URLs:

Secure APIs: https://stg-secure.shippingapis.com/ShippingApi.dll
Non-secure APIs: http://stg-production.shippingapis.com/ShippingApi.dll
To ensure we have the best contact information for you, please take a few moments to complete our four-question contact form by clicking the following link:
Web Tools Customer Contact Form

Please email us at WebTools@usps.gov if you have any issues or questions. You can also reach us on twitter @USPSWebTools for updates and announcements.

Thank you,
USPS Web Tools Program Office

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I'm just making sure you know about it, in case it impacts Ubercart.

Thanks much.

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Comment #1

longwave

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CreditAttribution: longwave commented 5 September 2014 at 16:53

There are some changes which don't look like they will affect us, and some new features which we don't have to implement.

However the release notes do contain one note of interest:

The Web Tools APIs will be moving to a new platform where data validations will more closely adhere to the published technical specifications. In some cases, improperly formatted XML values that are accepted currently will result in error responses on 9/7.

If anyone has a staging/test site with USPS enabled it would be useful to see if any RateV4 requests trigger validation failures against the updated API.