Accordingly, the price advantage for parcel and parcel brands purchased online will no longer apply in the future. The branch prices for small and medium-sized parcels will also be adjusted, DHL explained.
The price for a size S package has increased from EUR 3.79 to EUR 3.99. In future, customers will have to pay EUR 4.79 instead of EUR 4.50 to send a size M parcel. The price for the “5 kg package most frequently used by private customers”, on the other hand, will be reduced from the current EUR 7.49 to EUR 6.99, DHL explained.
Prices are also rising for the international shipping of parcels and packages. The reason is the sometimes “extreme increase in flight rates” and rising prices for delivery partners abroad. When shipping to non-European countries, however, buying parcels and parcel stamps on the Internet can still be worthwhile: the price difference remains here.
The state cuts taxes, but fuel prices remain high. The suspicion: The oil multinationals put money in their own pockets. Economics Minister Robert Habeck now wants to tighten antitrust law. Previously, calls for a tougher crackdown had been growing louder.
On Sunday evening, a 36-year-old drove his car into a group of cyclists. A 71-year-old was fatally injured. Before that, the man who fled is said to have killed his father in Rhineland-Palatinate. The police were able to arrest him and are now investigating the background to the crime.
Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier advocates the introduction of compulsory service in the social sector or in the Bundeswehr for all young women and men.