German translation help - parcel tracking.

Factual Questions
1

I am waiting for a delivery from Germany. The online shop has a tracking page but even using Babel Fish translation (which was an enormous help when making the initial order) I have absolutely no clue as to the parcel’s status:confused:

Here are the status entries along with the Babel Fish translations:
[ul]
[li]DFUE Eingang Grosskunde Telecommunications entrance big customer[/li][li]Grosskunden-Checker Big customer Checker[/li][li]ZUP-Durchlauf NORMAL ZUP run NORMAL[/li][li]NIF-Eingang [repeated 3 times] NIF entrance[/li][/ul]

Can any dopers shed some light on this?

2

I speak German fairly well, but haven’t got a clue what that all means!

I think you need someone who knows more lingo about shipping in German - I am sure DFUE, ZUP and NIF stand for something important, but I am totally out of the loop there.

3

DFÜ or DFUE appears to be a German term for electronic data interchange.

I reckon “ZUP-Durchlauf” means something like “passage through central depot”.

4

Perhaps then I was maligning Babel Fish unjustly :). Garbage in, garbage out.

Thanks to both responders.

5

Googling for the terms it seems that the service is GLS and the terms seem to mean

ZUP = zentraler Umschlagplatz (central hub) see e.g. GLS: Your high class parcel service
NIF = Nationales Interface (national interface) see e.g. GLS: Your high class parcel service

A stab at what the entries migh mean:

DFUE Eingang Grosskunde = Large customer sent us dataset about the parcel (but we don’t have the actual parcel yet)
Grosskunden-Checker = Now we got the parcel
ZUP-Durchlauf NORMAL = parcel went though our hub normally
NIF-Eingang = parcel arrived at interface between national and international network