title: Is there any way to prevent Woocommerce from defaulting to one particular (local pickup) shipping method?
body: <p>I want to <strong>prevent Woocommerce from defaulting to the local pickup option</strong>. </p>
  
  <p>I do need the local pickup as and option for customers, but not as a default.</p>
  
  <p>I have encountered what I think is a <a href="https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/issues/3641" rel="nofollow">bug in woocommerce</a> and there is a workaround documented; but the workaround will not work for me because ( apart from hacking the Woocommerce core ) I don't want to default to the most expensive method either, which is how the workaround operates, because I have premium methods. </p>
  
  <p>There is a setting for default method in the Woocommerce settings <code>woocommerce settings &gt; shipping &gt; shipping methods &gt; radio buttons down the page on the left</code> ... but it appears to be ignoring this and defaulting to the cheapest method. There is also a ( superfluous setting to pick the cheapest option ) </p>
  
  <p>There is already a bug report with Woocommerce; so for now rather than trying to fix that, if I could somehow just override Woocommerce from defaulting to the local pickup option ( or impose my own manual defaults ) then for me that would be a usable workaround.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> this seems to arise if both free shipping and local pickup are enabled - github issue here <a href="https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/issues/7721" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/woothemes/woocommerce/issues/7721</a></p>