Patent ID: 8005727

Claim:
A computer program product for controlling a user's access to a carrier's shipping services for delivery of a package, said carrier having a service area describing a plurality of access locations at which the carrier is willing to access the package to initiate shipping, the computer program product comprising at least one computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code portions stored therein, the computer-readable code portions comprising: a first executable portion for identifying the user; a second executable portion for identifying a user group of an organization, wherein the user is a member of the user group and the organization; a third executable portion for identifying a limited collection of access locations within the organization, wherein the limited collection of access locations are accessible by the carrier to deliver or receive one or more packages and the limited collection of access locations comprises fewer locations than the plurality of access locations accessible by the carrier within the service area; a fourth executable portion for causing display of at least a portion of the limited collection of access locations; a fifth executable portion for recording ship to information submitted by the user, said ship to information describing a destination location to which the package is to be delivered by the carrier; a sixth executable portion for recording ship from information describing one of the limited collection of access locations selected by the user; a seventh executable portion for validating that the access location selected by the user is one of the limited collection of access locations, wherein identifying the limited collection of access locations comprises evaluating one or more rights assigned to the user, the rights being associated with data indicating whether the user is permitted to utilize the limited collection of access locations to deliver or receive the packages; an eighth executable portion for providing a plurality of different shipping service levels provided by the carrier, each of the service levels comprising data indicating a different mode of shipping the package; and a ninth executable portion for identifying a limited collection of shipping service levels, the limited collection of shipping service levels being a subset of the shipping service levels provided by the carrier, and wherein identifying the limited collection of shipping service levels comprises evaluating the data associated with at least one of the rights assigned to the user, the at least one right comprising information indicating whether the user is permitted to utilize one or more of the subset of the shipping service levels to facilitate delivery of the package.