Specimen pickup: transport for a sample that has already been collected

What this service is

Specimen pickup is a courier run with clinical constraints. The collection has already happened — at a clinic, at a facility, or by a patient with a self-collected sample — and what remains is getting the container to a named laboratory before its receiving desk closes.

It is listed separately from a draw because it is a different job. Providers who take it handle the parts an ordinary parcel courier does not: documented chain of custody, temperature and packaging requirements, the laboratory’s own cut-off times, and a route that has to be repeatable rather than best-effort.