Tips and tricks for your parcel shipping.

Tips and tricks for your parcel shipping.

To make your shipping as easy as possible, we have compiled the most important tips & tricks for you here. For example, do you know our DPD App or the DPD Skill for Alexa?

Does your parcel have the permitted measurements?

Our girth calculator always shows you the correct size.

Express shipping 

There are times when fast delivery is essential. Opt for our Express service - domestic and international.

Express shipping 

There are times when fast delivery is essential. Opt for our Express service - domestic and international.

International shipping

International shipping

Ship your parcels to more than 230 countries worldwide. Europe-wide with DPD CLASSIC or, for urgent parcels, by Express.

Discover the DPD App

Discover the DPD App

Live-Tracking
Live-Tracking shows you exactly where your parcel is.

Redirection options
You decide when and where we deliver your parcel.

Delivery preferences
With your delivery preferences you can specify where we deliver all your future parcels, e.g. to a favourite parcel shop.

Sending and returning parcels
With just a few tabs in our app you can easily send or return parcels.

AppStore Batch  GooglePlay Batch  

“Where’s my parcel?” Alexa, Siri and the Google Assistant have the answer.

“Where’s my parcel?” Alexa, Siri and the Google Assistant have the answer.

The DPD Skill for Amazon Echo, Siri for the Apple HomePod and the DPD Action for Google devices provide you with full information relating to your parcel.

DPD in the social media – our netiquette

Whether Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube: we want to give you the opportunity to communicate directly with DPD on social media and we also use your feedback to improve our services. We are therefore happy about every post and every comment we receive, whether critical or complimentary.

However, a friendly tone is important to us. This is essential to us to protect our customers as well as our employees, and to ensure a friendly dialogue. We therefore reserve the right to delete any posts with the following content:

  • We stand for tolerance and respect and expect the same from every social media user. For this reason we delete any insulting, rabble-rousing, offensive, derogatory or xenophobic content.
  • Personal attacks of any kind
  • Advertising for third-party products as well as spam messages and multiple posts
  • Extreme political statements
  • Private data, such as addresses or telephone numbers
  • Violation of third-party rights
  • Internal, unpublished company information and targeted false information about DPD, its employees or customers
  • Illegal content

DPD in the social media – our netiquette

Whether Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube: we want to give you the opportunity to communicate directly with DPD on social media and we also use your feedback to improve our services. We are therefore happy about every post and every comment we receive, whether critical or complimentary.

However, a friendly tone is important to us. This is essential to us to protect our customers as well as our employees, and to ensure a friendly dialogue. We therefore reserve the right to delete any posts with the following content:

  • We stand for tolerance and respect and expect the same from every social media user. For this reason we delete any insulting, rabble-rousing, offensive, derogatory or xenophobic content.
  • Personal attacks of any kind
  • Advertising for third-party products as well as spam messages and multiple posts
  • Extreme political statements
  • Private data, such as addresses or telephone numbers
  • Violation of third-party rights
  • Internal, unpublished company information and targeted false information about DPD, its employees or customers
  • Illegal content

And another point: PLEASE DON'T BE LOUD!!! We understand you even without shouting.  We are open to any criticism and take every comment seriously, but we would like to ask you to always remain objective in your communication.

Even though we appreciate both fans and critics: we keep the option open to block users if they violate netiquette more than once. Everyone is responsible for the content they publish and should be aware of the consequences. As in real life, the following also applies on the net: "Always treat other people as you would like to be treated yourself!

PS. We use the familiar form of address on social media. If you object to this, please let us know.