Canada Post
Canada Post is the primary postal operator in Canada, offering a developer platform with REST and SOAP web services for e-commerce merchants and solution providers. APIs cover shipping label generation, rate calculation, parcel tracking, address validation (AddressComplete), parcel pickup scheduling, returns management, post office location lookup, and service information.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Canada Post the way a machine reads it — 22 machine-readable artifacts across 10 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Canada Post scores 31.6/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Canada Post
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Canada Post. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 10
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Canada Post Rating Web Service
Returns available shipping services and their rates for a given origin postal code, destination, parcel weight, and dimensions. Supports domestic, US, and international destinat...
Canada Post Contract Shipping Web Service
Enables commercial customers with a Canada Post parcel agreement to create domestic and international shipments, generate shipping labels (PDF or ZPL), retrieve shipment pricing...
Canada Post Non-Contract Shipping Web Service
Allows general businesses and VentureOne card holders to create domestic and international shipments and generate labels without a formal Canada Post parcel agreement. Charges a...
Canada Post Tracking Web Service
Provides parcel tracking capabilities using a PIN (Parcel Identification Number), DNC (Delivery Notice Card), or customer reference number. Returns tracking summary (most recent...
Canada Post AddressComplete API
Address validation and auto-complete web service backed by Canada Post's authoritative Canadian address database. Implements a two-step Find/Retrieve flow — Find returns up to 8...
Canada Post Pickup Web Service
Enables e-commerce platforms to schedule, modify, retrieve, and cancel on-demand parcel pickups. Supports checking pickup availability and cut-off times by postal code. Pickups ...
Canada Post Returns Web Service
Generates return shipping labels for authorized returns (pre-approved by merchant) and open returns (customer-initiated). Supports both REST and SOAP protocols. Return labels ar...
Canada Post Find a Post Office API
Returns a list of Canada Post retail post office locations near a given postal code or address, including hours of operation and available services. Useful for presenting drop-o...
Canada Post Deliver to Post Office API
Allows customers to select a post office as the delivery destination instead of a residential or commercial address at checkout. Integrates with the Find a Post Office service t...
Canada Post Service Information API
Provides information about scheduled outages and service disruptions to Canada Post web services, enabling applications to surface maintenance windows to developers and end users.
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Canada Post Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Canada Post Finops
FINOPSFeatures 8
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Security Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Canada Post — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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