At a glance
Average elapsed time, in days, from the first DHL handover scan to the delivered scan across consignments delivered in the period. It is the headline speed number for your Deutsche Post operation: how long a parcel actually spends in the network, separate from whether it met its promised aim. The alert fires above 5 days, which on the German domestic network signals a real slowdown rather than normal variance.
What it tracks
The card computes the mean ofdelivered_at - first_scan_at per consignment over the trailing 30 days, period over period, grounded in the detail: “Avg Transit (days) for the selected period.” Only consignments with both a handover scan and a delivered scan count, so parcels still in transit do not pull the average down or up. For domestic DHL Paket (Inland) a healthy figure sits around 1 to 2 days; DHL Packchen runs longer because of its wider promise window; EU cross-border lanes (DE to AT or CH) add customs and line-haul time and naturally read higher. Because the >5 days threshold is a single blended number, a rising reading is usually a mix shift toward slower products or cross-border lanes rather than the domestic network itself degrading. Pair it with On-Time Delivery Rate to separate “slow” from “late”, and with OTD by Route to see whether one lane is dragging the average.