International courier from Udaipur to Germany. Free home pickup.
Pickup from your Udaipur door, packed and documented, into the DTDC International network. 5–7 working days door-to-door for express; from ₹1,300 per kilogram before fuel surcharge and GST.
Five steps from your Udaipur door to a German address.
Pickup, Udaipur.
Free at 5 kg+. We bring tape, bubble wrap and the international airway bill.
Pack & document.
Commercial invoice, KYC, content declaration. EORI for B2B or German Steuer-ID for personal noted on the invoice.
DTDC handover.
Same evening into the DTDC International facility; air movement to the Germany gateway via Mumbai or Delhi.
German Zoll clearance.
Frankfurt (FRA), Munich (MUC), Berlin (BER) or Düsseldorf (DUS) entry. Zoll is among the most efficient EU customs — clean paperwork usually clears within 24–48 hours.
Doorstep delivery.
Last-mile via DHL/DPD partner in the destination city. POD on WhatsApp the same day.
Starting rates. Real pricing depends on weight.
Final price depends on actual or volumetric weight (whichever is greater) plus the international fuel surcharge in force on your booking date. GST is extra.
Starting per-kg rates
- Express (5–7 days, door)from ₹1,300 / kg
- Economy (8–12 days, door)from ₹950 / kg
- Min billable weight0.5 kg
- Pickup from UdaipurFree at 5 kg+
Volumetric formula: (L × W × H cm) ÷ 5000.
Worked example
A 2 kg parcel — say a saree set plus a few books for a student in Munich:
- Express, 2 kg × ₹1,300≈ ₹2,600
- + fuel surcharge (~25%)≈ ₹650
- + GST 18%≈ ₹585
- Approx total, express≈ ₹4,300
Indicative only. Fuel surcharge and rate cards change.
What you’ll need at pickup.
German customs (Zoll) is precise on documentation. Get the invoice and identifiers right at pickup and the parcel moves; get them wrong and Zoll holds it pending clarification.
KYC of the sender
One photo ID for the person whose name is on the AWB — Aadhaar, passport or driving licence. We photograph it at pickup; not stored beyond DTDC’s record.
Commercial invoice
For commercial goods, a printed invoice with item, HS code, quantity and value. Recipient EORI for B2B is mandatory; German Steuer-ID for personal recipient helps clearance. For gifts, a written declaration with stated value.
Prescription (medicines)
Sealed tablets only, with a copy of the doctor’s prescription and registration number. BfArM rules apply — no controlled substances, no liquid medicines, no injectables.
What Germany doesn’t let in.
These are real Zoll and EU TARIC rules — not our caution. Items shipped against them are seized, and the consignee usually pays a disposal fee.
Don’t even try
- Nazi or Volksverhetzung-flagged items — even foreign-published books, posters or memorabilia carrying Nazi iconography are blocked under the Volksverhetzung law.
- Weapons and weapon-replicas — Waffengesetz is strict; even decorative swords, kirpans and ornamental knives get flagged.
- Counterfeit branded goods — German consumer-protection enforcement is among the strictest in the EU.
- CBD products — federal restrictions vary; assume blocked unless you have a specific import permit.
- Drug paraphernalia — narcotics-precursor controls flag pipes, scales, and similar items.
- Pornography of certain categories — flagged at parcel level.
- Aerosols, perfumes, lithium >100 Wh — universal courier restriction.
- Traditional fur — EU has carve-outs but Germany enforces strictly.
Allowed with care
- Textiles and sarees — block-print cotton, silk, lehengas, sherwanis. Declare a fair value.
- Books and printed material — any topic except hate-speech-flagged content.
- Sealed dry vegetarian sweets — declare allergens line-by-line; German allergy labelling is strict.
- Prescription tablets — sealed strip, doctor’s prescription, EU Rx-equivalent.
- Non-precious jewellery — declare make and value clearly.
- Small electronics, papier-mâché — declare model and value.
Family gifts, B2B handicraft, student care kits.
Indian-IT family gifts
Sarees, sweets (sealed, declared), Diwali items shipped to Indian-German families across Frankfurt, Munich (Siemens), Berlin, Hamburg, and Walldorf (SAP). The IT-engineering diaspora is the biggest single bucket on this lane.
Wedding outfits
Lehengas, sherwanis, dupattas shipped ahead of weddings to Indian-German families. Always express; we double-pack to handle the long air leg.
Marwari B2B documents
Commercial invoices, sample dispatch papers, signed contracts to Marwari traders in Frankfurt-Sachsenhausen and the Hamburg port-trade community.
B2B handicraft samples
Block-print, papier-mâché and small handicraft samples to Indian-restaurant-chain supply (Mevida, Indish) and decorative-arts buyers.
Student care kits
Books, sealed dry snacks, kitchen tools, Indian-grocery basics to TU Munich, RWTH Aachen, KIT, Heidelberg and Cologne. Engineering-track students dominate the German lane.
Returning-traveller baggage
For German tourists who picked up too much in India — picked up from the hotel, packed (no organic biosecurity issues for EU), shipped before they fly out.
Diwali parcels (non-food-heavy)
Diyas, decorations, pooja items, sealed dry mithai with allergen labels. Express recommended to land before the festival.
AWB on WhatsApp. Track on dtdc.in. POD when it lands.
The moment the parcel is booked into DTDC International, we send you the AWB number on WhatsApp. Type it into the public tracker at dtdc.in any time. When delivery happens we forward the POD — signed slip or photo — within the hour.
Asked most often.
How efficient is German Zoll compared to other EU customs?
Among the most efficient. A clean parcel — proper commercial invoice, item-level descriptions, recipient EORI for B2B or Steuer-ID for personal — typically clears Frankfurt, Munich or Berlin within 24–48 hours. The flip side is that Zoll is precise: vague descriptions like ‘gift items’ or under-declared values get held until clarified, and that clarification round-trip can add 3–5 days. We get the invoice right at pickup so this rarely happens.
What triggers a German customs hold?
Three things, mostly. First, an incomplete or vague commercial invoice — Zoll wants to see what each item is, in plain words, with a value. Second, a missing recipient EORI on a B2B shipment — Germany cross-checks EORI numbers against the EU registry. Third, a suspicious item description — anything that reads like it could be Nazi-iconography, weapon-replica or counterfeit-branded gets flagged for inspection. We brief you on this at pickup so the parcel doesn’t get caught.
I’m sending to a Munich-Siemens or Frankfurt-IT-corridor office — realistic delivery time?
Express: 5–7 working days door-to-door is the honest band. Mumbai/Delhi handover Day 1, Frankfurt or Munich gateway around Day 3, Zoll clearance Day 4–5, last-mile Day 5–7. Office addresses (Siemens HQ Munich, Deutsche Bank Frankfurt, SAP Walldorf) deliver fine, but the courier needs the recipient’s direct phone number — most German offices won’t accept parcels at reception without a named recipient confirming.