# Pickups

A pickup is when you schedule a carrier to collect a package for delivery.
Use Shippo’s pickups endpoint to schedule pickups with USPS and DHL Express for eligible shipments that you have already created.

## Create a pickup

 - [POST /pickups](https://docs.goshippo.com/shippoapi/public-api/pickups/createpickup.md): Creates a pickup object. This request is for a carrier to come to a specified location to take a package for shipping.