Delete a delivery

DELETE/v1/deliveries/{id}

Schedules permanent removal of the delivery's documents, the recipient's contact details and the other data you can change, backups included. The sealed evidence record is not deleted: Parasend keeps it for the retention period from the delivery's last event, and the parties entitled to it can still obtain it. A delivery under legal hold (legal_hold: true) answers 409 delete_blocked_legal_hold, with the case reference in error.detail.

Path parameters

idstringrequired

The delivery's ID, starting dlv_.

Returns

202 application/json. Deletion scheduled.

Errors have one shape; see Errors for every code.

Code language

Request

curl -X DELETE "https://api.parasend.com/v1/deliveries/dlv_01M6R27T05512SCV3852TPM2XY" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $PARASEND_KEY"

const res = await fetch('https://api.parasend.com/v1/deliveries/dlv_01M6R27T05512SCV3852TPM2XY', {
  method: 'DELETE',
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.PARASEND_KEY}`,
  },
});
const data = await res.json();

import os, requests

res = requests.delete(
    "https://api.parasend.com/v1/deliveries/dlv_01M6R27T05512SCV3852TPM2XY",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['PARASEND_KEY']}",
    },
)
data = res.json()

using var http = new HttpClient();
var request = new HttpRequestMessage(HttpMethod.Delete, "https://api.parasend.com/v1/deliveries/dlv_01M6R27T05512SCV3852TPM2XY");
request.Headers.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("PARASEND_KEY"));
var response = await http.SendAsync(request);
var body = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();

var request = HttpRequest.newBuilder(URI.create("https://api.parasend.com/v1/deliveries/dlv_01M6R27T05512SCV3852TPM2XY"))
    .header("Authorization", "Bearer " + System.getenv("PARASEND_KEY"))
    .DELETE()
    .build();
var response = HttpClient.newHttpClient().send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());

$client = new GuzzleHttp\Client();
$response = $client->request('DELETE', 'https://api.parasend.com/v1/deliveries/dlv_01M6R27T05512SCV3852TPM2XY', [
    'headers' => [
        'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . getenv('PARASEND_KEY'),
    ],
]);
$data = json_decode($response->getBody(), true);

Response · 202

{
  "delivery_id": "dlv_01M6R27T05512SCV3852TPM2XY",
  "delete_by": "2026-12-06T09:15:05.999Z",
  "evidence_retained_until": "2033-11-06T09:15:05.969Z"
}