DHL‑Vinted locker‑to‑locker shipping in Germany

In late July 2026 DHL and the second‑hand marketplace Vinted introduced a locker‑to‑locker service for peer‑to‑peer sales across Germany. The launch used DHL’s existing network of roughly 41,000 Packstations, Poststations and neutral DeinFach lockers, allowing sellers to drop parcels into any locker and buyers to retrieve them elsewhere with a code from the Vinted app. The rollout aimed to cut last‑mile costs for low‑value items and to support upcoming platform‑tax‑transparency rules, with plans to expand the automated network to over 30,000 sites by 2030.

A few days later, in early August 2026, the partners announced a deepening of the collaboration. The expanded effort continued to rely on the same locker infrastructure and added tighter integration of shipping labels and pickup codes directly within the Vinted app, further simplifying the process and reducing transaction failures. The companies highlighted strong market demand, noting that about two‑thirds of German online shoppers had already sold items on a marketplace, reinforcing the need for a smoother logistics solution for C2C transactions.