Dry Ice Shipments
Shippo supports creating labels for shipping dry ice packed shipments by specifying options in the extras field of the Shipment object.
Creating a dry ice shipment
To create a label for a shipment that will contain dry ice, you will need to specify options in the Shipment extra field.
In the response you’ll get your usual Shipment object with all of the available rates for your dry ice shipment.
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You can then use any rate object_id that was returned to create a transaction and get your shipping label:
Your transaction response will look the same as any other shipment:
{"object_state":"VALID","status":"SUCCESS","object_created":"2017-08-03T17:55:44.347Z","object_updated":"2017-08-03T17:55:46.086Z","object_id":"fe52964dbfe449efb6210f0caa9fdee8","object_owner":"shippotle@goshippo.com","test":false,"rate":"d870ae7efc7c45eabf097986d45d4f09","tracking_number":"794609767977","tracking_status":"UNKNOWN","eta":null,"tracking_url_provider":"https:\/\/www.fedex.com\/apps\/fedextrack\/?action=track&cntry_code=us&trackingnumber=794609767977","label_url":"https:\/\/shippo-delivery-east.s3.amazonaws.com\/fe52964dbfe449efb6210f0caa9fdee8.pdf?Signature=aF9ujJ%2BOV5pJc24XoTuKeBmfJCQ%3D&Expires=1385930652&AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAJTHP3LLFMYAWALIA","commercial_invoice_url":null,"messages":[],"order":null,"metadata":"","parcel":"6fb5951a0900439b8770bc1814ee5528"}The following service levels support dry ice shipping:
Ground Express Saver 2 Day 2 Day A.M. Standard Overnight Priority Overnight First Overnight
All service levels support Dry Ice shipping.