Product Variations not utilizing Flat Rate packaging.

Thank you for looking into this. I’m hoping USPS can illuminate what might be going on here.

My test product dimensions (mentioned above) that I expected to return flat rate should easily fit into those measurements. It is set to 10″L x 8″W x 0.125″H. The only difference that I can see is that I used a decimal instead of fractions.

Thanks for the update. 🙂

Apologies for the delay, I have finally had some time to look at this more thoroughly.

It is now working for my needs, and I just need to limit options to keep it from being too confusing.

It is showing flat rates now, in addition to standard/express rates. This is, of course, much better than before. That said, it is only offering the cheapest option for flat rate. I had set up both a standard flat rate cardboard envelope and a flat rate padded envelope, which is something like a dollar more. However, I am removing the padded envelope because none of my products would benefit from it, so this issue is solved for me.

But, in the interest of being thorough, I do feel like mentioning that only the cheaper option is showing, and when I removed the standard envelope the price changes to reflect the difference, but is not labeled to show that it’s a separate option.

So for shipping options I see:
Standard rate–my packaging, not specified, and ONE flat rate option (flat rate packaging). If I have it set to padded envelope only it shows that option but does not specify that it’s a padded envelope to explain the price difference from, say, my own flat rate pricing. This is really two issues side by side.

For instance, I have set up flat rate (my pricing) to Canada and added additional USPS options for express international flat rate. I had wanted to add an option to upgrade both flat rate options to a padded envelope. For the express option, it simply defaults to the normal envelope and does not offer anything additional. For the standard option, the price shows up for the single flat rate upgrade, but doesn’t specify WHY that flat rate is offered on top of the normal flat rate option, as in: Flat Rate Padded Envelope.

If I have both flat rate standard and flat rate padded envelopes enabled, there is ONLY the option of the cheaper flat rate option, even though it’s still showing other options and not set to default to the cheaper pricing.

Again, I’m removing the padded option to keep things from being overly confusing, and none of my products are fragile enough to need it, so this issue is solved for me, as flat rate does actually work now for international orders, but I just thought I’d bring that up in case it’s still not working completely as designed. If it is then no worries, as this isn’t an actual issue for my purposes and I’m not interested in starting another support thread for it.

Thank you for spending so much time on this. I’m really happy to have this working so I can add less extreme shipping options when my site goes live in the next month or so.