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DHL ships 60,000 packages free to Ukraine

[ April 5, 2023   //   ]

DHL says it has now shipped more than 60,000 care packages to Ukraine under the DHL initiated a campaign it initiated in early April 2022. For one year now, private customers in Germany have been able to send parcels free of charge through DHL to provide support to the people of the war-torn country.

Supplies such as food, medicine, blankets, or diapers can be shipped and are consolidated for transport by truck to the Ukrainian postal service Ukrposhta, which handles the further distribution throughout Ukraine

Senders download a label addressed to “Humanitarian Aid Ukraine” from the DHL website and post their labelled parcels of up to 20 kilograms at a local retail outlet.

It is not possible to ship parcels to specific addresses in Ukraine through the free DHL service. Items such as weapons, cash or perishable foodstuffs are also prohibited. The Ukrainian postal service also requests that no clothing donations be sent by this means.

www.dhl.de/hilfe-ukraine 

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