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We're using Postmen to create shipping labels ( https://docs.postmen.com/dpd-uk.html#labels-create-a-label ) which all works perfectly fine, but the courier used is DPD who have a Predict service that basically sends out sms/email notifications to the customer regarding estimated delivery times etc.

When creating labels manually via the DPD portal, in addition to the delivery/contact fields, there are two extra fields labelled "Notification Email" and "Notification Text", i.e. an email address field and mobile phone number field.

I expected that populating the email and phone fields of the ship_to portion of the shipment array would be enough for these fields to self populate, but it seems this isn't the case. I can't seem to find any other fields in Postmen's documentation though, regarding additional phone/email data or the Predict service itself.

Does anybody know if DPD's API and Postmen support population of these fields? Or perhaps this only works with specific service_type and address type combinations? Links to the relevant sections within the documentation would be hugely appreciated.

Daniel Widdis
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I did some research and since August 5 we support those fields, we populate the required fields in the following way,

Unfortunately we don't provide documentation about specific couriers mappings right now.

Source: I'm a developer from Postmen.

vim
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  • @zvone Don't understand how this doesn't provide an answer. His question is: `Does anybody know if DPD's API and Postmen support population of these fields?`. The answer: `we populate them with the ship_to.email and ship_to.phone information`, what needs clarification? – Jesus M Martinez Sep 05 '16 at 02:30