# Cancel a shipment before handoff

**DELETE** `/v1/shipments/{shipment_id}`

Base URL: `https://api.parcel-events.example`

Tags: `Shipments`

## Authorization

Any ONE of the following options authorizes this operation; every scheme listed within an option is required together.

| Option | Scheme | Type | Sent as | Scopes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Option 1 | `ApiKey` | `apiKey` | header `Parcel-API-Key` | — |
| Option 2 | `BearerToken` | `http` | `Authorization: Bearer <token>` (opaque) | — |

## Path parameters

| Name | Type | Required | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `shipment_id` | `string` | Yes | — |

## Responses

| Status | Description | Media type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `204` | Shipment canceled | — |
| `409` | Current resource state prevents the operation | `application/problem+json` |

### Example response: 409 — Current resource state prevents the operation

```json
{
  "request_id": "req_00000000000000000005",
  "status": 409,
  "title": "Synthetic resource state conflicts",
  "type": "https://parcel-events.example/problems/conflict"
}
```

## Related pages

- [Buy and render a shipping label](./createlabel.md)
- [Cancel a pickup](./cancelpickup.md)
- [Create a shipment](./createshipment.md)
- [Delete a webhook endpoint](./deletewebhookendpoint.md)
- [Labels](./tags/labels.md)
- [List scheduled pickups](./listpickups.md)
- [List shipments](./listshipments.md)
- [List tracking events for a shipment](./listshipmentevents.md)
- [List webhook endpoints](./listwebhookendpoints.md)
- [Parcel Events Sandbox API](../../api.md)

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