Intelligent Shipper Release Notes (Please refer to your deployment notification for Release Notes Dates)
Royal Mail Integration Update to Allow Limited Quantity Dangerous Goods (LQDG)
The Royal Mail integration has been updated to allow shipments to be created containing Limited Quantity Dangerous Goods. LQDG is currently available with Tracked 48 services only and for shipments with a maximum weight of 10kg or less. The Add Product endpoint and Royal Mail Create Shipment endpoint have both been updated to include a Hazmat endpoint which can be used for providing LQDG information, and Hazmat fields have also been added to the Product UI.
When a Royal Mail shipment is created with either hazmat information provided in the Create Shipment request or using a stored product with hazmat information provided for the product, it will be validated as an LQDG shipment. Providing the customer has the ‘LQD’ service code in their service contract with Royal Mail and shipment is using a valid service, has a total weight of 10kg or less, and the hazardous UN Class and destination postcode are supported by Royal Mail for LQDG shipments, then the shipment will be successfully created as an LQDG shipment, and the label will contain a “Do not fly” statement.
LQDG can also be used with offline barcodes and pre-allocated tracking numbers.
See the API Reference page for more information on the updates to the Add Product and Royal Mail Create Shipment endpoints.
The below shows you an example of a Hazardous Label with the added 'DO NOT FLY' line highlighted for your visibility.
NOTE: This is only available with the below services
- TPB - Tracked 48 High Volume Signature (AGE)
- TPD - Tracked 48 Signature (AGE)
- TPL - Tracked 48 High Volume Signature / No Signature
- TPS - Tracked 48 Signature / No Signature
- TRL - Tracked Letter-Boxable 48 High Volume Signature / No Signature
- TRS - Tracked Letter-Boxable 48 Signature / No Signature
BFPO Services
After the release of some changes in our a previous deployment, it was discovered that shipments for BFPO destinations could be created using services other than BFPO specific services, which was incorrect and not in accordance with Royal Mail requirements or our specs.
This has now been rectified and any shipments to BFPO destinations can now be created using BFPO services only. For a list of services, please refer to the Royal Mail service matrix.
See below for more information on how to create such shipments:
For more information on this, refer to our Shipping Integration API Specification.
If you need any support or more information on the above updates, please contact our Support team below.
Email: TechSupport@intersoft.co.uk
Phone: +44 01753 689 292