I have a macro that I use to ship packages via USPS which does a direct query to the USPS rate servers. It requires registering an account with USPS. It won't help you with UPS, but if you could use this, post a msg and I'll post it here. More on reddit.com

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A computer tries to formulate an efficient route ever day based on what addresses have packages that day. It tries to save gas by making the route as short as possible. But the computer (or the programmer that wrote the code) has never actually done the job, so it doesn't know about all the little things that the driver does, like: You can't actually make a U-turn in the middle of a residential street. You can't park on a four lane rode with no curb and deliver to the other side of the street. Or the tail end of the route has a few commercial stops and needs to be delivered before 5pm so the middle part of the route can wait. The driver does know these things and adjusts his route accordingly (much to the dismay of the people that paid a bunch of money for a broken computer program). More on reddit.com

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