International courier from Udaipur to Switzerland. 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 ₹1,500 per kilogram before fuel surcharge and GST. Switzerland is not in the EU — Swiss Customs (FCA / EZV) clears separately, with VAT 7.7% on goods over CHF 5.
Five steps from your Udaipur door to a Swiss address.
Pickup, Udaipur.
Free at 5 kg+. We bring tape, bubble wrap and the international airway bill.
Pack & document.
Commercial invoice, KYC, content declaration, recipient AHV-Nummer or UID for B2B. Done at our office before handover.
DTDC handover.
Same evening into the DTDC International facility; air movement to Mumbai or Delhi, often via Schengen trans-shipment to ZRH Zurich (or GVA Geneva, BSL Basel).
Swiss customs.
Clearance by FCA (Federal Customs Administration / EZV). Switzerland is not EU — duty rules differ, VAT is 7.7% on goods over CHF 5. Clean paperwork clears in 24–72 hours.
Doorstep delivery.
Last-mile to Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Lugano or any Swiss address. 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 ₹1,500 / kg
- Economy (8–12 days, door)from ₹1,100 / 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 with a few books and a small jewellery pouch:
- Express, 2 kg × ₹1,500≈ ₹3,000
- + fuel surcharge (~25%)≈ ₹750
- + GST 18%≈ ₹675
- Approx total, express≈ ₹4,425–4,950
Indicative only. Fuel surcharge and rate cards change. Swiss VAT (7.7%) on goods above CHF 5 and any applicable customs duty is paid by the consignee.
What you’ll need at pickup.
Switzerland is not in the EU. Swiss Customs / FCA clears separately from EU TARIC, with their own duty thresholds and 7.7% VAT — so paperwork accuracy matters.
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.
Commercial invoice + recipient ID
Itemised invoice with values in INR or CHF. Recipient’s AHV-Nummer (Swiss social-insurance ID) for personal parcels, or UID for B2B — Swiss customs uses these to clear quickly.
Prescription (medicines)
Doctor’s prescription with registration number for tablets. Swissmedic is strict — no injectables, no controlled substances, sealed strips only.
What Switzerland doesn’t let in.
Swiss rules are strict, especially around counterfeits — Switzerland is HQ for Rolex, Patek Philippe, Swatch and many luxury brands, and anti-counterfeit cooperation is aggressive.
Don’t even try
- Counterfeit goods — Switzerland is the headquarters of many luxury watch and accessory brands. Anti-counterfeit enforcement is among the strictest in Europe; seized and destroyed.
- Drugs and controlled substances — including unprescribed tablets.
- Weapons and weapon-replicas — Swiss civilian-import rules are strict despite the militia tradition.
- Aerosols and pressurised containers — universal courier rule.
- Lithium batteries above 100 Wh — restricted on air leg.
- Items misusing Swiss flag or Swiss Cross — Wappenrecht law restricts unauthorised commercial use.
- CITES-listed items — ivory, certain corals, exotic skins.
- Alcohol of any kind — courier zero-tolerance.
Allowed with care
- Textiles and sarees — block-print fabric, lehengas, cotton clothing. Declare a fair value.
- Books and printed material — any topic; straightforward.
- Sealed dry sweets — declare ingredients and allergens on the invoice.
- Tablets with prescription — sealed strips, doctor’s slip, no liquids or injectables.
- Non-precious jewellery — declare make and value clearly to avoid counterfeit-flag confusion.
- Small electronics — declare model and value.
- Papier-mâché and Rajasthani handicraft — fine; no untreated wood.
Care packages, textiles, gifts, B2B.
Gifts to Indian-Swiss families
Zurich, Geneva, Basel, Bern, Lausanne, Lugano. Indian diaspora is concentrated in banking (Zurich), pharma (Basel — Roche, Novartis), and the UN-Geneva community.
Wedding outfits & festival sets
Sarees, lehengas, sherwanis, dupattas. Shipped ahead of Swiss-Indian weddings; recommend express to land 2–3 weeks before.
Diwali parcels (non-food)
Diyas, decorations, pooja items. Express to Zurich and Geneva before the festival.
B2B handicraft to design boutiques
Swiss design-shops and Geneva watchmaking-supply buyers occasionally take small lots of decorative non-precious metalwork from Udaipur’s craftspeople. Lucrative B2B at modest volume; commercial invoice required.
Returning-traveller baggage
Swiss tourists travel India in numbers. We pick up from the hotel, pack, ship before they fly out so they don’t pay airline excess.
ETH/EPFL student care kits
Books, kitchen tools, festival clothing for ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, University of Zurich, IMD Lausanne. Indian engineering and business-school traffic is steady. Peak intake: September.
UN-Geneva diplomatic-community parcels
Family parcels for Indian staff at UN-Geneva and Indian Mission. Note: deliver to home addresses, not UN — UN has separate diplomatic channels we don’t handle. Personal-side parcels to Geneva apartments are routine.
Indian-restaurant supply documents
Menus, supplier paperwork, contracts for Indian restaurants in Zurich, Geneva and Basel. Express tracked international.
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.
Switzerland isn’t in the EU — what changes for my parcel?
Switzerland is in EFTA and Schengen but has its own customs union — Swiss Customs / FCA (Federal Customs Administration, also called EZV) clears parcels separately from EU TARIC. The thresholds are different too: VAT of 7.7% applies on goods worth more than CHF 5 (~₹450), which is much lower than the EU’s EUR 150 threshold. So the consignee will likely pay some Swiss VAT on most non-trivial parcels. Customs duty depends on the product category. Practically, transit time is similar to EU lanes (most express still trans-ships through Frankfurt or Amsterdam), but the recipient should expect a small VAT charge at delivery for anything more than a token gift.
I need to send to family in Geneva who work at the UN — can you deliver to UN HQ?
We don’t — UN-Geneva has its own diplomatic-pouch and separate-channel arrangements that aren’t served by commercial courier networks. What we do, routinely, is deliver to the home address of UN staff and their families in the city — apartments in Geneva, Carouge, Meyrin and the lake-side suburbs. Personal-side parcels (sarees, gifts, student supplies, medicines with prescription) are no different from any other Swiss residential delivery. Just give us the home address with a name on the doorbell, not the UN building.
My son is starting at ETH Zurich in September — what care kit works?
ETH Zurich and EPFL Lausanne are steady September lanes for us. The kit that clears: textbooks (any topic, declare title and value), pressure cooker and steel tiffin (no wood), folded festival clothing for Diwali/Navratri, sealed dry sweets with allergen labels, prescription tablets in sealed strip with doctor’s slip if applicable. Avoid loose spices, untreated bamboo agarbatti, anything liquid, and especially anything that could be flagged as counterfeit-luxury (no fake-brand watches or wallets — even as a joke, Swiss customs takes them very seriously). Book mid-August on express so the parcel lands before the semester starts.