Carrier specific requirements

The MyParcel.com API is built to communicate with many carriers. However, each carrier has their own restrictions and requirements for creating shipments. Below you will find a list of carrier specific requirement and restriction that the currently integrated carriers have for a shipment.

• bpost
• DHL Express
• DPD
• Hermes
• PostNL C2C

bpost

Attribute	Requirement
company	Max 40 characters.
first_name	Max 40 characters together with last_name.
last_name	Max 40 characters together with first_name.
street_1	Max 40 characters together with street_number and street_number_suffix.
postal_code	Max 8 characters.
city	Max 40 characters.
email	Max 50 characters.
phone_number	Max 20 characters.

DHL Express

Attribute	Requirement
first_name	Max 45 characters together with last_name.
last_name	Max 45 characters together with first_name.
street_1	Max 35 characters together with street_number and street_number_suffix.
street_2	Max 35 characters.
postal_code	Max 12 characters.
city	Max 35 characters.
email	Max 50 characters.
phone_number	Max 25 characters.

DPD

Attribute	Requirement
first_name	Max 25 characters together with last_name.
last_name	Max 25 characters together with first_name.
street_1	Max 35 characters together with street_number and street_number_suffix.
street_2	Max 35 characters.
postal_code	Max 8 characters.
city	Max 35 characters.
email	Max 50 characters.
phone_number	Max 15 characters.
recipient_address	Needs to be an existing address. Address validation is performed when creating the shipment. An incorrect postal code, for example, will cause the shipment registration process to fail.
hs_code	Min 8 characters.

Hermes

Attribute	Requirement
first_name	Max 50 characters.
last_name	Max 50 characters.
street_1	Max 32 characters.
street_number	Max 10 characters. Dispatches to The Netherlands (NL) must contain a street_number.
street_number_suffix	Max 32 characters.
street_2	Max 32 characters.
postal_code	Max 10 characters.
city	Max 32 characters.
email	Max 80 characters.
phone_number	Max 15 characters.
description	Max 20 characters.
currency	Only EUR, GBP, USD are supported.
hs_code	Max 10 characters.

PostNL C2C

Attribute	Requirement
company	Max 35 characters.
first_name	Max 20 characters.
last_name	Max 32 characters.
street_1	Max 32 characters.
street_number	Max 5 characters.
street_number_suffix	Max 7 characters.
city	Max 25 characters.
phone_number	Max 14 characters.