Methods and systems for supporting the production of shipping labels are
provided. Example embodiments provide a Shipment Management System
("SMS"), which facilitates the production of shipping labels. The SMS may
be configured to generate a shipping uniform resource identifier ("URI")
that identifies a shipping protocol and includes shipment information and
post-back information. The shipping URI may be provided to a shipping
label module configured to produce a shipping label in accordance with
the shipping protocol by outputting a shipping label based on the
shipment information, and automatically posting information about the
producing of the shipping label to a code module identified by the
post-back information. This abstract is provided to comply with rules
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claims.