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Send parcels nationally - GLS is your specialist for sustainable package shipping in Germany

North or south, east or west - no matter where your customers are located, with GLS you can send your parcels weighing up to 40 kilograms, quickly and securely within Germany - and without distance limits. Our standard delivery time of less than 24 hours applies throughout Germany. With transparent shipment tracking, you can track your parcels right across Germany and your customers benefit from the various delivery options for recipients.

Sustainable dispatch
Standard delivery times
Personal contact in your local area
Comprehensive industry solutions (GDP)
Digital consignee signature
Transparency through parcel tracking

  • Our standard product for national shipping includes powerful features

    • Short standard delivery times
    • Transparent shipment tracking
    • Proactive information and options for consignee
    • Digital consignee signature
    • Liability included
    • Close personal support

  • Sustainable shipping with GLS Klima Protect

    • Your entire parcel shipment with GLS is sustainable
    • You receive an annual certificate from us
    • You can use climate-neutral shipping by offsetting the CO2 emissions in your communication

  • Maximum dimensions and weight for parcel shipping within Germany:

    Width: max. 80 cm | Height: max. 60 cm | Length: max. 200 cm
    Girth: max. 300 cm (circumference of the parcel plus longest side

    • BusinessParcel – parcel dimensions from GLS for national shipping within Germany
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Parcel shipping in Germany: As a GLS business customer, you benefit from our optional services

Would you like to cover additional shipping requirements for your company? With our additional services for parcel shipping in Germany, we will find the optimal solution for your shipping process together.

GLS notifies your consignee about the planned delivery and offers a variety of delivery options.

Consignee-friendly returns process: your consignee can return parcels free of charge via a GLS ParcelShop.

Direct delivery to a GLS ParcelShop

Optimised returns management: we collect the parcel from any address and take it to your preferred return address.

We pick up the parcel from an address of your choice and deliver it directly to the desired consignee.

Guaranteed delivery on the next working day (except Saturdays) – all over Germany.

Delivery to the customer on the same evening during a fixed period between 5.30 pm and 10 pm.

GLS will deliver direct to a department, office or a person.

Exchange service: delivery and return pick up in one go.

Parcel handover to a specific person in exchange for the PIN number.

The consignee pays for the delivery in cash, GLS transfers this sum to you.

Consolidated delivery of several parcels to a single consignee.

On request, GLS will make a direct letterbox delivery without a signature from the consignee.

Certified, GDP-compliant transportation of drugs and medicinal products.

GLS can ship hazardous goods in certain categories within Germany - by arrangement with the responsible depot.

GLS simplifies internal company parcel exchange.

Individual solution for your procurement logistics concept.

Other interesting products from GLS

Do you know our national express shipping?

Your parcel needs to arrive quickly and safely? With GLS national express shipping, punctuality is the top priority: express parcels are guaranteed to reach their destination by close of business on the next working day (Saturdays optional).

To national express shipping
Send parcels nationally as a private customer

Would you like to send a parcel privately within Germany? With GLS you can also send personal items quickly and inexpensively. You can choose between delivery to any address or a more climate-friendly delivery to a GLS ParcelShop. Information on prices and the option to frank your packages online can be found in our GLS private customers section.

Shipping and integration solutions for
the national parcel dispatch

Create parcel labels, import parcel data from your shop or ERP system, maintain sender and recipient addresses, schedule pick-ups, track the status of shipments, create returns, etc. The demands on fast, high-performance, stable and integrated shipment processing are diverse and high.

YourGLS Webportal

Simply register online and get started the very next day. It doesn't get any easier than that. By the way: Ebay connection included!

Learn more about YourGLS

Partner systems

If you operate your business with shop and merchandise management systems or special shipping/software solutions, you have the option of using plug-ins and interfaces (APIs) for parcel shipping with GLS.

Directly to our partner system finder
"We strive for the best solutions and offer a high-quality, approachable and digitally innovative service for business and private customers. With hundreds of thousands of parcels transported every day, we are actively shaping change in the logistics sector. The satisfaction of our customers is at the centre of everything we do."

Dr. Achim Dünnwald, CEO GLS Germany GmbH & Co.OHG

Quick question: Do you also have a retail shop or branches?

Additional income
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Increased frequency
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Latest technology
Sustainable dispatch

 

 

Relevant downloads for you as a business sender:

Guideline for regular senders
Customer information BigParcel — voluminous parcel
NC goods guideline (non conveyable goods)

Any questions? Visit our FAQ service center.

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GLS Parcel Configurator

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