These features make the app a must-have for your smartphone
Since the restart of the Post and DHL app, the application has been enriched with a number of practical features and will continue to do so. However, there are also a few functions that make “Post & DHL” even more practical – and soon even indispensable.
Anyone who uses the Post & DHL app knows its advantages: Nowadays, many people no longer have the obligatory stock of stamps on hand when they need one again. The app solves the problem with online purchase and a numeric code. Anyone who needs to send a rare but important letter quickly has everything he or she needs.
Post & DHL: Practical app with letter notification and address book import
But what can the Deutsche Post and DHL app do apart from mobile postage stamps? First of all: What works for letters also works for parcels. The digital parcel stamp cannot simply be transferred to the parcel itself using a code, but you save on the costs of paper and printing out if you only show the QR code when you check in. Of course, simply printing it out yourself at home will still work. If you don’t want to or can’t go to the branch, you can also book one in the app pick-up date for his shipment (Source: DHL).
New is recently the letter announcement. You can be informed in advance via your smartphone if you receive mail during the day. We have summarized what you have to do for this in a separate article.
Some of the most practical functions are only available for registered DHL customers: For example you import your contacts from the local address book of your smartphone together with addresses directly into the customer account and saves you from having to re-enter frequently used addresses in the future. Registration as a DHL customer is free of charge.
The 10 shipments integrated for all customers, which can be saved, managed and tracked in the app history, will be increased to 100 for registered customers. pick-up codes and push notifications on the shipment status there is also. You can also forward this directly from the app.
DHL app indispensable: Compulsory packing stations are coming
A new function will soon make Post & DHL indispensable for many app users and DHL parcel customers. Because the app is mandatory for orders to the popular packing stations. This is how packages via QR code in the app. There is currently a transitional phase in which the pick-up code sent by email as before is still valid. DHL has not announced when the app requirement will affect all customers. The forced use of the app is not without controversy.
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If you use Packstations often, you can also display their locations directly in the app. This also applies to mailboxes, post offices or DHL shops, including opening times. There are also pack stations Information on the current workload, i.e. whether free subjects are available.
