Shopify Shipping with Poste Italiane

If you're shipping from a location in Italy, then you can buy Shopify Shipping labels from Poste Italiane. You can schedule a pickup and ship products to your customer's address within Italy. The shipping rates that you're charged are based on Shopify's account with Poste Italiane.

Considerations for shipping packages with Poste Italiane

Review the following considerations when using Shopify Shipping with Poste Italiane:

Shopify Shipping with Poste Italiane ships domestically within Italy only, no international destinations are supported.
To purchase Poste Italiane shipping labels, your store's address needs to be based in Italy.
Poste Italiane doesn't support claims for late shipments.
You can't reroute a Poste Italiane shipment.
You can't drop off Poste Italiane packages at a post office. You need to schedule a pickup.
Envelope package types, such as bags, aren't supported with Poste Italiane. You can use soft pack or box packages.

Getting your products to Poste Italiane

You need to schedule a shipment pickup by calling the Poste Italiane directly at 800.160.000 or through Poste Italiane website. To schedule a pickup, you need to provide the Poste Italiane tracking number that you can find on your shipping label.

Domestic shipping with Poste Italiane

Poste Italiane delivers shipments from Monday to Friday excluding holidays.

Poste Italiane shipping service
Shipping service	Description
Poste Delivery Business Express	Delivers packages within 1-2 business days

Poste Italiane pickup points

To deliver to a pickup point with Poste Italiane, you must first set up shipping to a pickup point.

After you've selected which locations can deliver to a pickup point and edited your rates, your customers can choose Ship to pickup point as their delivery method, and then select the pickup point where they want their order delivered.

Packages can be picked up at post offices. After the shipment is delivered to a pickup point, your customer receives an SMS or an email notification that their shipment is ready for pickup. If your customer doesn't collect their shipment from the pickup point within a specific time period, then Poste Italiane automatically returns the shipment to the sender.

Review the following table to learn more about Poste Italiane pickup points:

Poste Italiane pickup points
Pickup point	Description
Post office	Local post offices within Italy. Packages must be picked up within 10 days.

Package requirements for Poste Italiane shipments

Review the following package size requirements for Poste Italiane domestic shipments:

minimum height is equal to or above 1 cm (0.39 inches)
maximum weight is 70kg (154 lb)
maximum sum of package dimensions is 450 cm (177.16 inches)
maximum longest side is 100 cm (39.3 inches)
no two dimensions can exceed 280 cm (110.23 inches) and 170 cm (66.92 inches), respectively.

Review the following package size requirements for Poste Italiane shipments to pickup points:

maximum weight is 15kg (33 lb)
maximum sum of package dimensions is 450 cm (177.16 inches)
no two dimensions can exceed 280 cm (110.23 inches) and 170 cm (66.92 inches), respectively.

Submitting shipping claims for Poste Italiane shipments

If you're using Poste Italiane with Shopify Shipping and your Poste Italiane shipment is lost or damaged, then you can submit a shipping claim with Shopify Shipping Support.

Included insurance coverage for Poste Italiane shipments

Poste Italiane offers coverage of €1 EUR per kilogram.

Submit a shipping claim for a lost Poste Italiane shipment

If your Poste Italiane shipment is lost, then you can submit a claim within 23 days from the date of label creation.

To initiate a shipping claim with Poste Italiane, submit a shipping claim in the Shopify admin.

Include the following information in your claim:

cost invoice showing the value of the contents
description of the package and lost items
a filled in letter of complaint

Submit a shipping claim for a damaged Poste Italiane shipment

If your Poste Italiane shipment is damaged, then you can submit a claim within 8 days from the delivery date.