DHL in the weeks before Christmas will add new fees For business customers, collect the packages via his network.
The group from the German Bonn is plans that dealers in addition to the existing Peak fee for the high season around the holidays of 19 Cent “Also one ‘Black-Friday Submission’ To bury 50 cents per package, “said the Federal Association of Onlinehandel on Tuesday.
DHL: Private customers are not affected by new fees
“For many small and medium-sized online shops, this can become a real burden,” criticized the association. He therefore called for the planning for the special fee immediately. DHL announced that the group had started to inform business customers at an early stage that an additional surcharge for DHL programs would be raised in this year’s pre-Christmas business. However, private customers are not affected.
The surcharge should apply in the two most quantity of the two weeks during Black Week and Cyber-Week from November 24th to December 7th, 2025. In addition to the peak surcharge of 19 cents, it should be charged, which will apply to business customers from November 1 to December 31. However, customers could avoid this by feeding their packages into the delivery network outside of the high season. The price surcharge is necessary because DHL expands the capacities in the period “by very expensive additional measures” in order to provide the necessary resources for processing the package flood. Last year, top values of almost 12 million edited programs per day were reached around the bargain week Cyber Week.