Pickup

Request on-demand and scheduled parcel pickups

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For essential information common to all our web services, read the Fundamentals of Canada Post Web Services: REST | SOAP

Service Summary

Use pickup web services to perform the following:

Determine parcel pickup availability – find out if Canada Post offers parcel pickup service at your location.
Request one or more of the following types of pickup:
- on-demand pickup – a one-time pickup request.
- third-party pickup – an on-demand pickup at a third-party location, but billed to your account (for commercial customers who have this option specified in their contract).

Pickup functionality is provided through the following calls.

Get Pickup Availability
REST | SOAP This call identifies if pickup services are available for a given postal code. It also provides information related to the type of pickup available and the cut-off times for pickup service requests. It provides the same functionality as Determine Parcel Pickup Availability.
Get Pickup Price
REST | SOAP Used to retrieve the pickup price in XML format for a pickup request
Create Pickup Request
REST | SOAP Request a one-time on-demand pickup.
Get Pickup Request Details
REST | SOAP Retrieve information about a specific pickup request.
Update Pickup Request
REST | SOAP Modify an existing pickup request, such as contact details or pickup times.
Cancel Pickup Request
REST | SOAP Cancel a pickup request.
Get Pickup Requests
REST | SOAP Retrieve all of your open pickup requests and their statuses.