Festive Season Shipping

01.01. -New Year’s Eve
No UPS^® service in all states*

06.01. - Epiphany
No UPS^® service in following states*: Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria and Saxony-Anhalt

*Due to the public holidays, there may be delays in the standard services during the following days. Shipments in Standard service expected around that date will most probably be delivered after the public holidays. For additional information concerning your Express shipments, please follow up on ups.com.

24.02. - Shrove Monday
Following UPS centers are partially or completely closed, so that there will be shipment delays: Dusseldorf; Mönchengladbach; Cologne; Aachen; Bonn

• UPS Standard shipments are delayed by one day
• UPS Express Service shifts from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Normal UPS^® service

10.04. - Good Friday
No UPS^® service in all states*

13.04. - Easter Monday
No UPS^® service in all states*

*Due to the public holidays, there may be delays in the standard services during the following days. Shipments in Standard service expected around that date will most probably be delivered after the public holidays. For additional information concerning your Express shipments, please follow up on ups.com.

01.05. - Labour Day
No UPS^® service in all states*

08.05. - Libaration Day

No UPS^® service in the following state: Berlin

• UPS Standard shipments are delayed by two days
• UPS Express Service shifts from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m.

21.05. - Ascension Day

No UPS^® service in all states*:

• UPS Standard shipments are delayed by one day

*Due to the public holidays, there may be delays in the standard services during the following days. Shipments in Standard service expected around that date will most probably be delivered after the public holidays. For additional information concerning your Express shipments, please follow up on ups.com.

01.06. - Whit Monday
No UPS^® service in all states*

11.06. - Corpus Christi

No UPS^® service in following states*: Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland:

• UPS Standard shipments are delayed by one day

*Due to the public holidays, there may be delays in the standard services during the following days. Shipments in Standard service expected around that date will most probably be delivered after the public holidays. For additional information concerning your Express shipments, please follow up on ups.com.

Normal UPS^® service

15.08. - Assumption Day
No UPS^® service in following states*: Bavaria and Saarland

*Due to the public holidays, there may be delays in the standard services during the following days. Shipments in Standard service expected around that date will most probably be delivered after the public holidays. For additional information concerning your Express shipments, please follow up on ups.com.

Normal UPS^® service

03.10. - Anniversary of German Unification
No UPS^® service in all states*

31.10. - Reformation Day
No UPS^® service in following states*: Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Lower Saxony, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein and Thuringia

*Due to the public holidays, there may be delays in the standard services during the following days. Shipments in Standard service expected around that date will most probably be delivered after the public holidays. For additional information concerning your Express shipments, please follow up on ups.com.

18.11. - Day of Prayer and Repentance
No UPS^® service in following state*: Saxony

*Due to the public holidays, there may be delays in the standard services during the following days. Shipments in Standard service expected around that date will most probably be delivered after the public holidays. For additional information concerning your Express shipments, please follow up on ups.com.

25.12. - Christmas Day
No UPS^® service in all states*

26.12. - Boxing Day
No UPS^® service in all states*

*For specific service information, please check back with us prior to the 2020 Christmas holiday season. Due to the public holidays, there may be delays in both the standard services and the express services.

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The sender typically determines whether a signature is required for packages. In some instances UPS drivers may require a signature for deliveries on their route. You can authorise UPS to leave packages without signing by enrolling in UPS My Choice®. 

Your package can be held at a UPS Customer Center or a UPS Access Point location. You can also instruct us to reroute your package to another address or have the driver leave it with a neighbor.