POSTWURFSPEZIAL – formats, charges and minimum volumes

The product brochure also contains all the information about the conditions and other details of POSTWURFSPEZIAL.

Formats & charges

Easy to calculate

POSTWURFSPEZIAL has two formats and eight basic price levels, so it is easy to calculate costs.

Formats	Prices per item ¹⁾	Weight ²⁾	Dimensions
Card³⁾	€0.13
Standard	€0.14 €0.16	up to 20 g 21 - 50 g	L: 150 - 235 mm W: 90 - 125 mm H: up to 5 mm Rectangular only ⁴⁾
Large	€0.18 €0.26 €0.36 €0.46 €0.61	up to 50 g 51 - 100 g 101 - 250 g 251 - 500 g 501 - 1.000 g	L: 140 - 353 mm W: 90 - 250 mm H: up to 20 mm Square shape possible ⁵⁾

¹⁾ All prices are subject to statutory value added tax.
²⁾ Weights should be rounded up to whole grams.
³⁾ The price of the POSTWURFSPEZIAL card depends on the chosen card size and the permitted grammage. The maximum grammage of 500 g/m² must be complied with. The POSTWURFSPEZIAL card is a one-piece mail item (not a double postcard) in which all information on the mail item is visible from the outside.
⁴⁾ The length must be at least 1.4 times the width.
⁵⁾ If the sides measure more than 140 mm up to a maximum of 250 mm.

POSTWURFSPEZIAL optional add-on

Note that: Surcharges are not included in the item franking. Payment is made at the time of posting.

	Surcharge ¹⁾	Details
POSTWURFSPEZIAL EASY	+ €0.05/item	Small volumes from 5,000 to 19,999 items
Production surcharge	+ €0.05/item

¹⁾ All prices are subject to statutory value added tax.

Suitable for automatic processing – or pay a production surcharge

To process your advertising mail, Deutsche Post uses sorting systems that are capable of fully-automated sorting. To be compatible with machine processing, POSTWURFSPEZIAL items must be fully suitable for automation in both the Standard and the Large basic formats.

Suitability for automation is determined as follows:

Machine readability (typeface, arrangement, background and setting of the writing)
Layout of the address side (separation into zones and design requirements of the address side)
Compatibility with machine processing (content and external characteristics of the item)

Items in the Standard basic format (including the POSTWURFSPEZIAL card) must be fully suitable for automatic processing. If any of these conditions is not met, the production surcharge is payable. There is detailed information in the POSTWURFSPEZIAL product brochure.

Items that differ from the shapes and dimensions of the specified basic formats, as well as items that do not have straight outer edges, may be posted as creative special formats. In that case the production surcharge is payable.

If items are not suitable for automatic processing and cause disruption during machine processing, the payable production surcharge can be imposed retrospectively within four weeks of the day of posting for the entire posted volume of the order.

Minimum volumes & sorting

Minimum volumes

Volume	Region
20,000 items with POSTWURFSPEZIAL	throughout Germany (without surcharge)
5,000 to 19,999 items with POSTWURFSPEZIAL EASY	throughout Germany (with low-volume surcharge)