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While talking to my sys admin, it dawned on me that our firewall had not authenticated me from the account where the perl scripts were written. See, when I was trying to figure out why I could use my browser and not LWP, I was surfing with IE on my local PC. So, from the Unix account where my perl scripts were, I fired up Netscape and typed www.usps.com. I supplied the firewall with my username and password, ran the perl script again, and got the desired results. Thanks to everyone for your feedback.
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Re^3: POST with LWP yields HTTP 302 Not Allowed - Too bad for me?
by perlNinny (Beadle) on Mar 17, 2010 at 18:29 UTC
    It seems now the Post office doesn't let this work anymore:

    HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
    Connection: close
    Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:07:28 GMT
    Server: Netscape-Enterprise/6.0
    Vary: Accept-Encoding
    Allow: HEAD, GET
    Content-Length: 124
    Content-Type: text/html
    Client-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:07:27 GMT
    Client-Peer: 96.16.57.188:80
    Client-Response-Num: 1
    Title: Method Not Allowed
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      Try setting the "user agent" string in LWP to something else.

      eg: 

      use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->agent( "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1)" );

my $request = POST "http://the.url/the.page", {
  foo => 'bar',
  baz => 'bux',
};
my $result = $ua->request( $request );

print $result->as_string;

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