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# Avg Transit (days), Deutsche Post

> Avg Transit (days) for Deutsche Post stores. Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre. How to read it, why it matters, and how to act on it.

**Card class:** [Non-Hero](/nerve-centre/overview#card-classes-explained)  •  **Category:** Delivery Performance

## 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 of `delivered_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](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/deutsche-post/on-time-delivery-rate) to separate "slow" from "late", and with [OTD by Route](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/deutsche-post/otd-by-route) to see whether one lane is dragging the average.

## Reconciling against the source

Cross-check against the consignment-level scan history in the [DHL Geschaftskundenportal](https://www.dhl.de/de/geschaeftskunden.html) tracking and statistics views. Remember that DHL records scan timestamps in carrier-local time (CET / CEST) and that tracking events arrive in batches, so a very recent delivered scan may not yet be in our index; the 30-day average is stable even when the most recent day is still settling.

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### Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

*Avg Transit (days)* is one of hundreds of KPI pulses Vortex IQ tracks across Deutsche Post and 70+ other ecommerce connectors. Nerve Centre runs the detection layer; Vortex Mind investigates the cause when something moves; Ask Viq lets you interrogate any number in plain English.

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