Shipping Information
Shipping tips for your orders
Goods must be packed well so that they arrive intact to the destination. Sturdy cardboard, inner padding and strong tape all offer good protection. The right packaging helps to safeguard the contents of your parcels during automatic sorting and transportation.
All that is then needed is the correct address on the dispatch label and the parcel is ready to send. According to the terms and conditions of GLS, a parcel may weigh up to 40 kg and its combined length and girth may be up to three meters.
Secure packaging
Packing should suit the type, weight and robustness of the item being sent:
Sending parcels from a GLS Parcel Shop
Shipping labels for senders with low shipping volume are available in any of our Parcel Shop GLS.
It is possible to take orders to a Parcel Shop GLS and label them there.
Fuel surcharge
GLS applies a fuel surcharge as the increase of the price of oil has a significant impact on the price of transport
and, therefore, also on the costs of shipments.
The surcharge applied for shipments is based on the average monthly prices (including taxes) of diesel fuel which is published monthly on the website of Direção geral de energia e geologia,link:
This surcharge will be applied in your first invoice of the respective month.
The fee is applied to freight, reshipment and collection outside the urban perimeter.
*GLS reserves the right to modify the percentages and numbers of the reference tables for air and land/sea fuel charges.
The current amount of the fuel surcharge is 9,0%.
From | To | Surcharge |
---|---|---|
0,00 € | 0,52 € | 0,00 % |
0,53 € | 0,57 € | 1,00% |
0,58 € | 0,62 € | 1,50 % |
0,63 € | 0,67 € | 2,00 % |
0,68 € | 0,72 € | 2,50 % |
0,73 € | 0,77 € | 3,00 % |
0,78 € | 0,82 € | 3,50 % |
0,83 € | 0,88 € | 4,00 % |
0,89 € | 1,08 € | 4,50 % |
1,09 € | 1,29 € | 5,00 % |
1,30 € | 1,39 € | 6,00% |
1,40 € | 1,44 € | 6,50 % |
1,45 € | 1,49 € | 7,00 % |
1,46 € | 1,50 € | 8,00 % |
1,51 € | 1,60 € | 8,50 % |
1,61 € | 1,70 € | 9,0 % |
1,71 € | 1,80 € | 9,5 % |
1,81 € | 1,90 € | 10,00 % |
1,91 € | 2,00 € | 10,50 % |
2,01 € | 2,10 € | 11,00 % |
2,11 € | 2,20 € | 11,50 % |
2,21 € | 2,30 € | 12,00 % |
2,31 € | 2,40 € | 12,50 % |
2,41 € | 2,50 € | 13,00 % |
Packing your Parcel
How to do it right