The Create Shipment endpoint now includes four unincorporated territories:

• The Virgin Islands
• American Samoa
• Guam
• The Northern Mariana Islands

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IMPORTANT:

The State Code on the label uses the ISO Country Code from the request, and the Country on the label is USA. The billing code follows the service billing code for the USA.

The following services have been removed. These services have already been archived and no longer in use.

• BG3, BP3, DG3, DG6, IE3, IG3, IG6, IP3, IP6, MB3, PS6, PS8, WE3, WG3, WG6, WP3, DP4, IP4, WP4, OZ1, OZ3, OZ4, OZ6, WW1, WW3, WW4, DE1, DG1, DP1, HVC and HVF

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Please Note:

These services are no longer available for shipment creation.

New import services:

• ITI, ITJ, DE9, DEO, DEP, DEQ, DER, DEU, DEV, DEX, DEY, DEZ, DE5, DE7, and DE8.
• These services come with domestic labels as shipments created with these services are entering Great Britain from international locations. All these services are closed, requiring a service contract for use.

New international cross-border:

• DE0, ITO, ITQ, ITT, ITV, ITW, IYX, ITY, ITZ, IT1, IT5, IT6, IT7, IT8, IT9, IT0, TIF, and TIH.
• These services come with international labels. All these services are closed and require a service contract for use.

Swagger documentation has been updated as per below:

• Create Shipment API - The County field description has been revised to specify that when provided for the USA, Australia, and Canada, it must contain a valid state code or name.
• Create Shipment API - The description for the SpecialistPhoneNumber field has been revised and highlighted in bold for customer reference.

New International Extra-Territorial Office of Exchange (ETOE) services have been added. The list of services added are ETK, ETL, ETM, ETN, ETO, ETP, ETQ, ETR, ETG, ETH, ETI, ETA, ETB, ETC, ETD, ETE, and ETF. These services require a service contract and utilize the International Label template. They are classified as either Personal Correspondence or Non-Personal Correspondence services. The Get Carrier Services API can be called to retrieve the service descriptions. See the API Reference Page and Carriers API section for details.

The Registered Billing Postcode field is optional, with its value automatically included in the activation email when provided. Posting Location Postcode is recorded upon customer selection of the shipping location for linking to the shipping account. Activation emails are dispatched to both the OBA team and the activating user. This enhancement aims to improve the onboarding process and reduce activation errors.

The create shipment API request has been modified to accommodate a non-GB Return to Sender address. This adjustment aligns with the support for new ETOE services, allowing shipments to feature a US shipper address while facilitating the use of a return to sender address located outside of the UK.

The OBA Sales Order Create Request sent to Royal Mail for untracked shipments has been updated to include the Container ID instead of the Manifest Number when shipments allocated to a container are manifested. This helps in reflecting the actual containerisation of the shipments and improves tracking and billing accuracy.

The Royal Mail tracking events EVKLS and EVKLC pertain to delivery to a collection point for collection, not to the final delivery. To accurately reflect this, the tracking events EVKLS and EVKLC have been remapped to indicate "Ready for Collection," rather than treating them as "Delivered" events. This ensures that the correct tracking information is sent to customers.

The maximum number of records accepted in the Add/Remove Shipments request under the Containers API has been increased from 99 to 10,000. This means customers can add a maximum of 10,000 shipments to a container or remove a maximum of 10,000 shipments from a container in a single request. This gives greater flexibility for customers using the container functionality and helps in reducing the number of API calls needed to Pro Shipping v2.