Carrier guide

Purolator

Canada's largest courier network, with timed delivery options.

Purolator is Canada's largest courier network, made for fast and reliable domestic delivery. Ground and Express both come with timed options: by 9 AM, by 10:30 AM or evening.

Good for

• Next-day delivery between Canadian cities
• Deliveries that must arrive by a set time
• Business addresses

Services

Typical transit times. Every quote shows the carrier's own estimate for your exact route and ship date.

Purolator Ground

Purolator Express

Using Purolator through the API

1. Rate. POST /v1/rates returns Purolator services alongside every other carrier whenever it serves the route. For Purolator only, add "carriers": ["purolator"] and no other carrier is quoted. Reference
2. Buy. Pass the chosen rate's carrier, service_code, service_name and quote_id to POST /v1/shipments, with an Idempotency-Key. Labels guide
3. Track. GET /v1/shipments/{id}/tracking returns its tracking events. Reference
4. Hand it over. GET /v1/pickups/carriers lists the carriers that can collect from your address; otherwise GET /v1/rates/dropoffs finds the nearest drop-off. Pickups guide

Purolator rates only

Every rate that comes back has carrier: "purolator". POST /v1/rates/quick takes the same option.

curl -s https://api.parcelhub.ca/v1/rates \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{
  "from": { "name": "Warehouse", "street": "120 Adelaide St W", "city": "Toronto",
            "state": "ON", "postal_code": "M5H 1T1", "country": "CA" },
  "to":   { "name": "Sam Lee", "street": "1 Main St", "city": "Ottawa",
            "state": "ON", "postal_code": "K1P 1J1", "country": "CA" },
  "packages": [ { "weight": 2, "weight_unit": "kg", "length": 30, "width": 20,
                  "height": 15, "dimension_unit": "cm" } ],
  "carriers": ["purolator"]
}'

Other carriers

Canada Post