# Print UPS labels - Rails plugin or available web service?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/print-ups-labels-rails-plugin-or-available-web-service/172986>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [July 30, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/print-ups-labels-rails-plugin-or-available-web-service/172986 "2009-07-30T20:46:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![andy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@andy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andy)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/print-ups-labels-rails-plugin-or-available-web-service/172986/1 "2009-07-30T20:46:32Z")

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Does anyone know of a Rails plugin or an available web service that  
allows for printing UPS shipping labels?

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**Author:** ![andy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@andy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andy)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 8:50pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/print-ups-labels-rails-plugin-or-available-web-service/172986/2 "2009-07-30T20:50:27Z")

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Andy wrote:

> Does anyone know of a Rails plugin or an available web service that  
> allows for printing UPS shipping labels?

Perhaps UPS offers an API or web service?

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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**Author:** ![andy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@andy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andy)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 8:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/print-ups-labels-rails-plugin-or-available-web-service/172986/3 "2009-07-30T20:58:49Z")

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On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 20:50 +0200, Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:

> Andy wrote:
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> > Does anyone know of a Rails plugin or an available web service that  
> > allows for printing UPS shipping labels?
> 
> Perhaps UPS offers an API or web service?

A quick Google on ‘UPS web service api’ led me here:

[http://www.ups.com/e\_comm\_access/tracking?loc=en\_US](http://www.ups.com/e_comm_access/tracking?loc=en_US)

HTH,  
Bill

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**Author:** ![andy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@andy](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/andy)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2009, 10:58pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/print-ups-labels-rails-plugin-or-available-web-service/172986/4 "2009-07-30T22:58:15Z")

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On 30 Jul 2009, at 19:50, Marnen Laibow-Koser  
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> Andy wrote:
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> > Does anyone know of a Rails plugin or an available web service that  
> > allows for printing UPS shipping labels?
> 
> Perhaps UPS offers an API or web service?

UPS certainly do offer an XML service for arranging shipments. It  
responds with a base64 encoded shipping label.

Ben