Canada Post PostOfficeService Virtual Sandbox

Virtual SOAP API for locating Canada Post offices and retrieving detailed branch information.

The PostOfficeService provides SOAP-based operations to query Canada Post office locations. Developers can use this service to retrieve nearest office coordinates based on search criteria and fetch comprehensive details for specific post office branches, including operational hours and service availability.

Use this hosted sandbox to simulate Canada Post PostOfficeService APIs without authentication, API keys, or extra dependencies. Point your code or SDK to the Beeceptor base URL, preferably through an environment variable or feature flag, and switch back to the production API when ready. This keeps your integration code consistent across local development, QA, demos, and production.

Use cases:

Use this sandbox to validate location-based search queries, handle XML response parsing for branch details, test error handling for invalid postal codes, and verify branch-specific metadata mapping before integrating with live Canada Post location services.

Canada Post PostOfficeService virtual sandbox is up and running!

Use this sandbox URL as the API base in your code to simulate Canada Post PostOfficeService responses instantly.

`https://canada-postoffice.mock.beeceptor.com`

Operations:(2)

GetNearestPostOffice

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Request Envelope

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body><get-nearest-post-office-request xmlns="http://www.canadapost.ca/ws/soap/postoffice"><locale>{{oneOf 'FR' 'EN'}}</locale><platform-id>{{faker 'string.numeric' '{"length":3}'}}</platform-id><maximum>{{faker 'number.int' '{"min":1,"max":10}'}}</maximum><search-data><d2po>{{oneOf 'true' 'false'}}</d2po><bflf>{{oneOf 'true' 'false'}}</bflf><longitude>{{faker 'location.longitude' '{"min":-180,"max":180,"precision":6}'}}</longitude><latitude>{{faker 'location.latitude' '{"min":-90,"max":90,"precision":6}'}}</latitude><postal-code>{{faker 'location.zipCode'}}</postal-code><city>{{faker 'location.city'}}</city><province>{{faker 'location.state' '{"abbreviated":true}'}}</province><street-name>{{faker 'location.streetAddress'}}</street-name><tonight>{{oneOf 'true' 'false'}}</tonight></search-data></get-nearest-post-office-request></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

Response Envelope

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body><get-nearest-post-office-response xmlns="http://www.canadapost.ca/ws/soap/postoffice"><post-office-list>{{#repeat (faker 'number.int' '{"min":1,"max":5}') comma=false}}<post-office><id>{{faker 'string.uuid'}}</id><name>{{faker 'company.name'}}</name><address>{{faker 'location.streetAddress'}}</address><city>{{faker 'location.city'}}</city></post-office>{{/repeat}}</post-office-list></get-nearest-post-office-response></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

GetPostOfficeDetail

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Request Envelope

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body><get-post-office-detail-request xmlns="http://www.canadapost.ca/ws/soap/postoffice"><locale>{{oneOf 'EN' 'FR'}}</locale><platform-id>{{faker 'string.numeric' '{"length":4}'}}</platform-id><office-id>{{faker 'string.numeric' '{"length":8}'}}</office-id></get-post-office-detail-request></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

Response Envelope

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soap:Body><get-post-office-detail-response xmlns="http://www.canadapost.ca/ws/soap/postoffice"><post-office-detail><address><city>{{faker 'location.city'}}</city><latitude>{{faker 'location.latitude' '{"min":42,"max":83,"precision":4}'}}</latitude><longitude>{{faker 'location.longitude' '{"min":-141,"max":-52,"precision":4}'}}</longitude><postal-code>{{faker 'location.zipCode'}}</postal-code><province>{{faker 'location.state' '{"abbreviated":true}'}}</province><office-address>{{faker 'location.streetAddress'}}</office-address></address><location>{{faker 'company.name'}}</location><name>{{faker 'company.name'}}</name><office-id>{{faker 'string.numeric' '{"length":10}'}}</office-id><bilingual-designation>{{oneOf 'true' 'false'}}</bilingual-designation></post-office-detail></get-post-office-detail-response></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>

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