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From 1 July 2022, we’ll send a digital notification to tell you where your parcel has been delivered. Just go online to immediately see where your parcel is. In fact, this might be just the right time to create a PostNL account to help you track your parcels at all times, including in the PostNL app.
When will I get a ‘not-at-home’ note?
- You are being sent a health screening kit or hospital items and the sender has indicated to us that they are sending out ‘medical mail’.
- You are being sent a gift or promotional gift.
- The shipment falls under the universal postal service, such as official documents from a notary or parcels sent via a PostNL point.
What are the benefits of a PostNL account?
The latest information about your parcel at all times
Digital tracking saves paper
Tracking your parcels digitally isn’t just easy, it also helps us use less paper. By not leaving a not-at-home note, we’ll save some 70,000 kilos of paper every year – we’re talking no less than 206 maple trees.
Setting your delivery preferences
Where would you like us to deliver your parcels? Good news: with your PostNL-account, you can choose where you want us to deliver your parcels. For example: in a designated place around your house or at a nearby PostNL pick-up point. You prefer at home delivery? If so, then you also have the option to tell us where you want us to deliver your parcel when you're not at home. Check out how to set your delivery preferences.
If your parcel’s sender has advised us of your email address, you’ll receive an email telling you where your parcel has gone. In addition, you can always visit our website and use the track & trace number to find out where your parcel was delivered. You receive the track & trace number from your parcel’s sender.
We want to offer you the convenience of a digital record, so we’ll send you a digital not-at-home note from now on. If you don’t have a PostNL account, you can create one and download the PostNL app, giving you access to a single record of all your deliveries. Besides, it saves a lot of paper if we stop leaving paper notes.
All PostNL email notifications state that you will no longer receive a not-at-home note if you’ve missed your delivery. When using track & trace to find your parcel, you’ll see the same message: that you’ll be advised of parcel deliveries by email or in the app from now on.
If your deliverer doesn’t find you at home when delivering your parcel, they’ll try to leave it with your neighbours. If they aren’t home either or can’t take delivery of your parcel, it will end up at a PostNL point. Your email or track & trace will show you where to find it, and you can choose to have parcels sent to a PostNL point at all times when you’re found not to be at home.
Your delivery will end up with your neighbours or at a PostNL point near you, so nothing has changed. We’ll send you an email to say where your parcel is, and the PostNL app will also send you an alert to tell you where your parcel has been delivered. Plus which, you can always go to our website and enter your track & trace number to find where your parcel has been delivered. You’ll receive this number from your parcel’s sender.
You’ll receive your track & trace number from your parcel’s sender. Misplaced it or never received it? Contact the sender. They’ll be able to give you the track & trace number.
Tip: Many users find the PostNL app very convenient when sending and receiving mail and parcels, as you’ll always receive an alert that your parcel is on its way – even if you haven’t received a track & trace number. You’ll never miss a parcel again.
Occasionally, it can take up to two days for a parcel to be delivered. Our advice would be to give it two days and then to check the track & trace number one more time. No parcel two days after it was supposed to have been delivered? Contact the sender and ask them to contact us. Our colleagues will then try to locate your parcel.
How wonderful to be sent a surprise parcel! Did the sender tell you? Then do contact them to obtain your track & trace number. If it was delivered at a PostNL point, we’ll hold onto it for you for up to seven days.
As your parcel was a surprise delivery, you may have not collected it from a PostNL point within seven days – after which it’s returned to the sender. You can prevent such mishaps, of course, by creating a PostNL account and downloading the PostNL app. We’ll send you a message that a parcel is making its way to you.