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Swiss-Express Innight

Delivery before the working day begins

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In brief

Need your goods to arrive as quickly as possible? With Swiss-Express Innight, your goods will be delivered contactlessly to an individually agreed delivery point during the night – by 7 a.m., before the working day begins. As an authorized recipient, we also ensure the flow of goods from the EU and handle customs clearance for your goods on arrival in Switzerland.

The advantages for you

  • Individual Europe-wide collection or handover on-site
  • Delivery before the working day begins throughout Switzerland and Liechtenstein
  • Delivery to individually defined delivery points
  • Seamless track and trace
  • In-house import and export customs clearance

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Here’s how it works

  • Provide consignment data

    Provide consignment data Send your consignment data via the Swiss-Express “Web” online service or the EDI interface.

  • Have goods collected

    You prepare your goods. Then we’ll collect them from Monday to Friday in Germany, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, the Principality of Liechtenstein and Switzerland.

  • Clear goods through customs

    We handle export and import customs clearance directly at our sites.

  • Receive goods

    We deliver your consignments throughout Switzerland and Liechtenstein from Tuesday to Saturday.

  • Have returns, containers and recycling material collected

    We take empty containers, returns and packaging material away with us and handle recycling or return shipments.

Europe-wide collection

Wir holen Ihre Sendung in der Schweiz, in Deutschland, Österreich, Belgien, Luxemburg, den Niederlanden, Frankreich, Italien und im Fürstentum Liechtenstein ab. Die Abholzeiten vereinbaren wir mit Ihnen individuell, je nach Transportvolumen. Es kann von folgenden Richtzeiten ausgegangen werden:

Germany

Departure location, departure time

  • Berlin, 12 noon
  • Bremen, 1 p.m.
  • Frankfurt, 5.30 p.m.
  • Hamburg, 12.30 p.m.
  • Leipzig, 2 p.m.
  • Munich, 5 p.m.
  • Stuttgart, 6.30 p.m.
Austria

Departure location, departure time

  • Graz, 1 p.m.
  • Salzburg, 3 p.m.
  • Vienna, 12.30 p.m.
Italy

Departure location, departure time

  • Bologna, 12 noon
  • Turin, 2.30 p.m.
  • Venice, 12 noon
France

Departure location, departure time

  • Dijon, 6.30 p.m.
  • Paris, 3.30 p.m.
  • Strasbourg, 7.30 p.m.
Netherlands

Departure location, departure time

Amsterdam, 1 p.m.

Belgium

Departure location, departure time

Brussels, 3 p.m.

Luxembourg

Departure location, departure time

Luxembourg, 4 p.m.

Switzerland and Liechtenstein

Whole of Switzerland and Principality of Liechtenstein: 6 p.m.

Delivery in Switzerland and Liechtenstein

With the Swiss-Express “Innight” night courier service, your consignments will be delivered to the chosen delivery point early in the morning before the working day begins, ensuring that the goods are ready for the next step in production. To ensure access, we manage around 8,000 anonymized keys and badges.

We ensure:

  • Process-compliant goods delivery as specified by the customer
  • Paperless processing of your order
  • Consignment depositing with delivery agreement
  • Data transfer via Swiss-Express Web or EDI interface
  • Simple returns procedure
  • Notification via telephone, e-mail or SMS

Value-added services

Easy returns processing

Whether you’re handling an exchange, a repair or a warranty claim, the goods must be returned to the sender. Swiss-Express “Innight” collects your returns during delivery, or the recipient can request collection conveniently via TechApp or the web portal. Swiss-Express “Innight” returns, repairs, disposes of or recycles returns as required.

Advantages

  • Professional, eco-friendly processing of returns
  • No waste
  • Less work for you
  • Delivery of dangerous goods ADR up to 1,000 points
Container management
  • Use of Swiss-Express Innight boxes
  • No need to invest in your own reusable containers or to use cardboard packaging
  • Reusable boxes available in six different sizes
  • Complete control and a clear overview of the boxes with detailed reports
  • Empty boxes transported to you
  • Visual cleanliness inspection
Storage/courier

Emergency 24/7 storage for your spare parts

Courier trips within two hours from our central warehouse to the delivery address of your choice

Individual transport handling as per the customer’s preferences

You can send the following types of goods with Swiss-Express Innight

  • Goods that a driver can handle using a trolley or pallet truck
  • Goods with a maximum length of 300 cm and a maximum girth of 400 cm
  • Goods weighing a maximum of 250 kg per transport unit (up to max. 400 kg per consignment). As the maximum permissible load may vary depending on the type and nature of the consignment, we agree to conditions on a case-by-case basis
  • Goods that do not protrude beyond the side of the load carrier (e.g. EUR pallets (120 cm x 80 cm))
  • Transport for consignments without packaging and bulky goods is also possible
  • Goods that are packaged securely for transportation and the nature of which does not constitute a threat to the environment or to the health and safety of Swiss Post's employees
  • Dangerous goods up to 1,000 ADR points

More information

Prices

The pricing depends on your individual requirements. We would be pleased to prepare a suitable quotation for you.

Label consignment

Your consignment must carry a label containing the following information:

  • Sender address
  • Recipient address
  • Consignment barcode
  • Routing number (routing information)
Manage consignment

You can send consignment data to us and manage your consignments with our Swiss-Express Web online service.

A Swiss Post Cargo driver steers a delivery vehicle with day courier shipments.

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Europe-wide collection and delivery by 5 p.m. in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

Our individual Innight solutions

We would be happy to advise you personally

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Swiss-Express Innight: Europe–Switzerland night courier