How can I check on all my parcels moving through Romania at once?

Add every AWB and tracking number to Parcel Monitor and your whole delivery picture lands on one page — the eMAG order heading to an easybox, the Fan Courier delivery crossing Bucharest, the Shein package still at customs. No need to figure out if it's Cargus or Sameday: formats are recognized automatically, with the entire tracking history displayed right below each package. Free and frictionless, no account creation required. Skip the manual step entirely: link your Gmail via Google sign-in, and every order confirmation gets caught and tracked on its own — often before the shipping notice lands in your inbox. One glance with your morning coffee tells you which easybox codes are live, what needs cash for a ramburs delivery, and what's still on the road.

Which carriers can I track — Fan Courier, Sameday, Cargus, Poșta Română, DPD?

All five, plus the whole supporting cast. Fan Courier — the domestic heavyweight — scan by scan, Sameday with its easybox empire, Cargus and DPD on the webshop flows, Poșta Română for the postal backbone, GLS on the European lanes — and the international networks feeding packages in: DHL, UPS, FedEx and Cainiao for the AliExpress flood. Your eMAG order, your Vinted find from Italy and the box a relative sent from Spain all sit in one timeline here. We track more than 1,000 carriers worldwide and identify each AWB's format automatically, so whichever courier the seller picked, the number works. And when an international package changes hands to a Romanian courier after customs — the standard relay — we follow it straight through the switch, new AWB included.

How do Sameday easybox lockers work, and how long is my parcel kept there?

The easybox turned Romanian delivery on its head: instead of waiting for a courier, your package waits for you. Pick an easybox at checkout — eMAG and most big shops offer it, usually cheaper than home delivery — and when the package lands, Sameday sends an SMS and app notification with a PIN or QR code. At the machine: code in, door pops, done, any hour of the day. The clock to respect: the standard pickup window is short, typically around 48 hours, with the exact deadline in your message — and the app usually offers an extension if life intervenes. Uncollected packages move to a Sameday point or start the return, so treat the code message as a today-or-tomorrow errand. For anyone in a flat with no reception desk and a working schedule, the easybox simply deletes the missed-delivery problem.

What is "ramburs" (cash on delivery) and can I track those orders?

Ramburs is Romania's cash-on-delivery habit — you pay the courier when the package arrives instead of paying online — and those orders track here exactly like prepaid ones, every scan included. Tracking a ramburs order well is what makes it smooth: watch for the out-for-delivery scan in your timeline, have the amount ready (cash is the safe assumption, though card-on-delivery is spreading), and keep the phone reachable, because couriers call before arriving. Easybox ramburs works too — payment happens at the machine by card before the door opens. The thing to avoid: a failed ramburs attempt (nobody home, payment not ready, phone silent) counts as a failed delivery, and repeated misses send the order back as a return, which some shops hold against your buyer record. The tracking gives you the heads-up; the preparedness is your job.

Can I follow my eMAG order on Parcel Monitor?

Da — the moment your eMAG order ships, the assigned courier (usually Sameday for easybox deliveries, or Fan Courier, Cargus and others for home delivery) issues an AWB, and that number works here like any other: paste it in and the journey lines up from the seller's shelf to your door or easybox. You'll find the AWB in your eMAG account's order details or the shipping email. The case for tracking here rather than only in the eMAG app: one list for everything — the eMAG order next to your AliExpress package and your Vinted find — plus, for eMAG Marketplace orders from international sellers, we follow the cross-border relay including the handover to the Romanian courier, where the platform's own view sometimes goes quiet. Connect your Gmail and new eMAG orders start appearing in your list on their own.

Do I pay VAT or customs on parcels from outside the EU, like China, the UK, or Turkey?

Yes — Romanian VAT applies to every non-EU purchase from the first cent, and since July 2026 low-value e-commerce packages also carry the EU's flat €3 duty per item, replacing the old €150 duty-free allowance. Turkey deserves its own mention: despite the customs union for many goods, e-commerce packages from Turkish shops are treated as non-EU imports for VAT — so the Trendyol order counts like the AliExpress one. What decides your experience is the checkout: IOSS-registered shops (the big platforms, Trendyol included on most flows) collect the VAT as you pay, and the package clears without a pause. Non-IOSS orders get assessed on arrival, gather Poșta Română's or the courier's handling fee, and wait for your payment. A VAT line at checkout means the fast lane; its absence means budget for the bill, the fee and the days.

How long do deliveries from Germany, Italy, or China take to reach Romania?

Three separate tracks, each with its own timer. From Germany, webshop orders typically run three to six working days on the standard road network — no customs, just distance. Italy runs similar, three to six days, with the diaspora parcel routes adding their own rhythm (more on those in the next answer). China is the long lane: two to four weeks on standard e-commerce shipping, with the waits concentrated at origin consolidation and Romanian customs; premium lines compress it to about a week. Everything stretches in the December peak and around Black Friday — which in Romania arrives in mid-November with real force, courtesy of eMAG. Read your timeline by rhythm rather than the calendar: steady hub scans mean on-schedule, and the pause after "arrived in Romania" on a China order is the customs queue working, with the next scan usually announcing the handover to a local courier.

Why is my parcel sitting at a Fan Courier or Cargus hub?

A day or two at a major hub — Bucharest, Cluj, Timișoara — is ordinary batching: packages wait for their linehaul or their local delivery route, and the scan sits still while the queue moves. Peaks stretch it: Black Friday week and December turn every Romanian hub into a waiting room, and a three-day pause then is the season, not a loss. It becomes worth acting past three or four days of total silence: call the courier with your AWB — Fan Courier and Cargus respond well by phone, and the destination-city office can physically locate a package the national line can't — and ask specifically what it's waiting for. Address ambiguity is the classic quiet cause; offer a landmark and confirm your phone number for the driver. For marketplace orders, open eMAG's or the platform's help flow in parallel. Your timeline here names the exact hub and last-scan time to quote.

Which carrier is fastest for Bucharest vs. the counties?

In Bucharest, next-day is the baseline and same-day is common — Sameday's easybox turnover, Fan Courier's urban density and the marketplace fleets all perform, so the fastest carrier is mostly the one your seller handed the package to first. The counties tell a more textured story: Fan Courier's national network keeps next-day promises remarkably deep into the country, Sameday's easybox expansion has put lockers in towns where home delivery used to lag, and Cargus and DPD hold their own on the main corridors — while rural comune add a day as routes thin. The practical translation: outside the big cities, choose easybox or a pickup point at checkout when offered, because a locker served daily beats a home-delivery route that reaches your village three times a week. And watch the handover scan — a package leaving Bucharest tonight is in most county seats tomorrow.

Romanians working abroad often send parcels home — can I track those shipments too?

Yes — and this is one of our favourite use cases. When family in Italy, Spain, Germany or the UK sends a package home, the tracking number from their receipt is all you need: paste it here and you'll watch the same journey they can — the origin country's leg, the border crossing, and the handover to Fan Courier, Cargus or Poșta Română for the Romanian stretch. It works for the international couriers and postal services, and for the specialised diaspora transport firms too, where they issue tracked AWBs — though the informal van services (the classic dube running Italy–Romania routes) often operate outside any tracking system, phone calls only. For families doing regular sends, both ends watching one number replaces the "a ajuns?" call chain — and you'll see the package hit Romanian customs and the local courier's network, so you know exactly when to expect the doorbell or the easybox SMS.

What other countries can I track parcels in with Parcel Monitor?

You may also want to explore tracking for these other destinations:

• Waiting on something from Poland?

• Keep an eye on Greece deliveries

• Tracking made easy for Ukraine

• See deliveries to and from Russian Federation

• Where's your Turkey parcel?

• Follow your shipment in China

Which other carriers can I track with Parcel Monitor?

These carrier pages are worth a look too:

• Waiting on DPD? Track it here

• Track your DHL Express parcels

• Following a UPS delivery?

• FedEx tracking, step by step

• See where your AliExpress Standard Shipping package is