Strikes cause postal service delays in Germany

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UKP Worldwide have just notified their customers of postal delays in Germany due to industrial action.

Deutsche Post, has advised the heavy congestion of all inbound, outbound and transit airmail items at Frankfurt Airport due to a recent Lufthansa pilots’ strike.

Delays started before the weekend and it is anticipated that they’ll last until at least the 23rd of December which puts deliveries in time for Christmas at risk. Service delays are expected so be aware that you may have unhappy customers if your airmail parcels were due to be delivered by Deutsche Post and routed through Frankfurt.

7 Responses

  1. Re Strikes cause postal service delays in Germany let hope that Amazon & Ebay will support there sellers when customers start to complain re late delivery

  2. Why do items sent from the UK to Germany (and most of Western Europe) need to be transported by air?

    Surface mail should be possible in the timescales quoted and should be a lot cheaper.

  3. Are delays still bad in Germany?

    My item has been stuck in Frankfurt airport for the past 10 days with no update whatsoever. This is unbelievable.

    If I’d known it would take this long I would have gone by foot to deliver it.

  4. My documents are stuck in frankfurt either. For 2 weeks. It was priority express. They dont care if it is urgent. Still no update. Turkey to USA , first they go to frankfurt airport. No update for 2+ weeks.

    Expected delivery from TR to USA 5-7days! LOL!!

    Worst service ever frankfurt!

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