The DHL logistics giant wants to charge new extra costs for business customers in the weeks before Christmas. In addition to the existing peak costs for the main season, the group is planning to open a “Zwart-Free Day specialty” of no less than 50 cents per package, “said the German Federal Association of Online Trade on Tuesday.
“For many small and medium -sized online stores, this can be a real burden,” the association criticized. He therefore immediately called for the planning for the special reimbursement. DHL announced that the group had begun at an early stage of business customers that an extra surcharge for DHL programs would be increased in this year’s pre-Christ patch activities. However, private customers are not affected.
The surcharge must apply in the two most quantity of the two weeks during the Black Week and Cyber week from 24 November to 7 December 2025. In addition to the peak surcharge of 19 cents, it must be charged, which apply to business customers from November 1 to December 31. However, customers could avoid this by feeding their packages in the delivery network outside the high season.
The price allowance is necessary because DHL expands the capacities in the period “through very expensive extra measures” to offer the necessary means to process the flood of the package. Last year, edge values of nearly twelve million edited programs were reached per day around the Cyber Week of the Bargain Week.
Source: Krone
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