Canada Post Guide

Want to use EasyPost to ship with Canada Post? This guide will break down all the necessary steps to make it happen

This guide will cover:

• Canada Post Overview
• Service Levels and Coverage Area
• Setting Up Your Canada Post Account
• Receiving Accurate Rates
• Generating Shipping Labels
• Manifests and Pickups
• Tracking Your Canada Post Packages
• Talk to a Shipping Expert

If you haven't generated your first shipping label with EasyPost, we recommend reading our Getting Started Guide to learn how.

Canada Post Overview

Canada Post provides reliable CA domestic and international shipping to almost all CA residential addresses and 190+ countries worldwide. Enjoy a range of mail classes from affordable options to Priority™. Canada Post supports scheduled and on-demand pickups, and has over 5,900+ post offices across the country, making them easily accessible. Get Canada Post's quality shipping service at a discounted rate through EasyPost.

Service Levels and Coverage Area

Service Levels

Canada Post delivers 5 days per week except during holidays (Mon-Fri). The service levels through EasyPost include:

See service levels for all EasyPost-supported carriers.

Coverage Area

Canada Post supports a variety of service levels for CA domestic and international shipments to over 190+ countries worldwide.

Receiving Accurate Rates

If you are shipping with a Canada Post account created through EasyPost then you will receive special preneogotiated discounted rates. Please note that these rates will be returned to you in CAD, but be charged to your account in USD through your EasyPost Wallet based on the exchange rate.

If you are linking your own Canada Post account, then you will receive your agreed-upon rates with Canada Post in real-time. If you're not receiving the right rates for your account, contact your Canada Post representative ASAP.

Generating Shipping Labels

Generating shipping labels for Canada Post is the same as generating them for any other carrier with EasyPost. See our Getting Started Guide for help generating your first shipping label.

EasyPost offers native Canada Post labels in PNG and ZPL formats.

Manifests and Pickups

Contract customers are required to manifest their Canada Post shipments, but Retail customers do NOT have to.

Contract customers who do not manifest their shipments will be charged a reassignment fee for every shipment they do not manifest. This is important to remember, because Canada Post will still pick up shipments that are not manifested, but they will charge you if you do so.

Because of this, we will send a notification to a Contract customer if they try to push shipments without a manifest - which you can create using our ScanForm object. If you'd like, we can turn off these notifications by marking all shipments as manifested on our API, but Canada Post will still charge you directly for non-manifested shipments that enter their mailstream.

Generating a manifest with EasyPost is simple:

1. Create an empty Batch object
2. Add shipments you'd like to manifest to the Batch
3. Create a Manifest / ScanForm for the Batch
4. Print out the manifest document for your Canada Post driver

Each shipment may only be included on one manifest - attempts to manifest a shipment more than once will be ignored. It's important to note this, since it's possible to create partial or incorrect manifests, which will result in Canada Post charging you a reassignment fee.

For more information about creating Batches, check out our Batch documentation.

You can request Canada Post pickups through the EasyPost API. Remember to contact your Canada Post account rep for pickup pricing details. For more information about how to schedule a pickup through the EasyPost API, see our Pickup documentation.

Tracking Your Canada Post Packages

Tracking statuses are available for all Canada Post shipments. Creating a Tracker for Canada Post is identical to creating a tracker with any other carrier through EasyPost.

Take a look at our Tracking Guide for support in creating your first Tracker.

Need More Info About Canada Post?

Our Carrier Metadata endpoint can programatically return information about Canada Post including service levels, predefined packages, supported features, and shipment options.

Use this information to quickly integrate with Canada Post or make educated decisions about your carrier mix. You can also use the Carrier Metadata endpoint to retrieve information about all the carriers on the EasyPost platform.

Talk to a Shipping Expertlink

Any questions about how to start shipping with Canada Post through the EasyPost API?