Carrier guide

UPS

Dependable ground plus fast air across Canada and worldwide.

UPS covers everyday ground parcels and time-definite air service across Canada, into the U.S. and around the world. Multi-box shipments get one label per box under a single shipment.

Good for

Business-to-business parcels
Cross-border and worldwide express
Multi-box shipments

Services

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

Canada & U.S.

Service	Typical delivery
UPS Standard	1–5 business days
UPS 3 Day Select	3 business days
UPS 2nd Day Air	2 business days
UPS Next Day Air Saver	Next business day, end of day
UPS Next Day Air	Next business day
UPS Next Day Air Early	Next business day, early AM

International

Service	Typical delivery
UPS Worldwide Expedited	2–5 business days
UPS Worldwide Saver	1–3 business days
UPS Worldwide Express	1–3 business days, midday
UPS Worldwide Express Plus	Next business day, early AM

Using UPS through the API

Rate. POST /v1/rates returns UPS services alongside every other carrier whenever it serves the route. For UPS only, add "carriers": ["ups"] and no other carrier is quoted. Reference
Buy. Pass the chosen rate's carrier, service_code, service_name and quote_id to POST /v1/shipments, with an Idempotency-Key. Labels guide
Track. GET /v1/shipments/{id}/tracking returns its tracking events. Reference
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

UPS rates only

Every rate that comes back has carrier: "ups". 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": ["ups"]
}'

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Other carriers

Canada Post