Patent ID: 8364606

Claim:
A shipping management computer system, said shipping management computer system comprising at least one computer device, wherein said shipping management computer system is programmed to: receive from each respective user of a plurality of users, a respective input of a set of parcel specifications and a recipient address for shipping a respective particular parcel, wherein each respective user accesses the shipping management computer system over a global communications network using a respective user client computer device, and wherein each respective user client computer device is adapted for communication with the global communications network; in response to each respective input, apply a set of carrier-specific shipping location type rules for each carrier of a plurality of carriers to a respective default user-specific shipping location associated with the respective user and to the set of parcel specifications input by the respective user, said user-specific default shipping location comprising a shipping location postal code and a corresponding default shipping location type, said corresponding default shipping location type comprising an indication of a type of location from which the respective user would ship a parcel; for each carrier of the plurality of carriers, determine whether the carrier would support shipping of the particular parcel according to the respective set of shipping location rules for the carrier as applied to the parcel specifications for the particular parcel and the respective default user-specific shipping location; for each carrier of the plurality of carriers that would support shipping the particular parcel, calculate a carrier-specific, delivery-service-specific shipping rate for each delivery service offered by the carrier, and determine a corresponding carrier-specific, delivery-service-specific scheduled delivery date, for delivering the particular parcel to said recipient address and dynamically generate an interactive simultaneous online display comprising a selectable interactive representation of each said carrier-specific, delivery-service-specific shipping rate with a corresponding indication of said corresponding carrier-specific, delivery-service-specific scheduled delivery date.