Add each tracking number here and the whole picture settles onto one page — the Zara order out with SEUR, the Amazon.es package, the AliExpress find still at Barajas customs. We recognise each number's format automatically, so there's no working out whether it's Correos or MRW before you can look, and the whole journey — every scan so far — stays visible underneath. Completely free to use, you need no signup or registration at the beginning. The effortless upgrade is that you sign in with Google and connect your Gmail, and order confirmations get spotted and tracked automatically — new purchases from Amazon, Zalando or AliExpress appear in your list before you've opened the shipping email. One glance with your morning café tells you what's arriving today, what's waiting at a Citypaq, and what's still crossing the peninsula.

All five, plus the rest of Spain's delivery lineup. Correos and Correos Express for the postal backbone and urgent lanes, SEUR (DPD's Spanish arm) and MRW on the classic courier flows, GLS and CTT Express moving webshop volumes, Nacex on premium routes — and the international networks feeding packages in: DHL, UPS, FedEx, and Cainiao carrying the AliExpress flood. Your El Corte Inglés order, your Vinted find from France and a package from a Latin American family all sit in one timeline here. We track more than 1,000 carriers worldwide and identify each format automatically, so the carrier the shop picked stops mattering. So, if an international shipment transfers over to a Spanish courier after customs, we follow it straight through, new number and all.

Here's the quirk that catches every new Canary shopper: the Canary Islands sit outside the EU's VAT and customs area, so a package from Madrid — same country! — goes through customs formalities on arrival, exactly like an international shipment. Instead of mainland VAT, the islands charge IGIC (the local tax, at a lower general rate), assessed during clearance, and there's often a customs handling or DUA processing fee from the carrier on top — frequently the most annoying line on the bill. The practical consequences: island deliveries add days for clearance, some mainland shops refuse to ship to the islands or charge extra precisely because of the paperwork, and "free shipping" offers often exclude you. What helps: shops that handle the DUA themselves (many big ones do), marketplaces' island-specific shipping options, and patience with the clearance pause in your timeline — it's bureaucracy, not loss.

On the mainland and Balearics, yes: Spanish VAT (21%) 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 rule. The experience splits at the checkout. IOSS-registered shops — AliExpress, Temu, Amazon and the big platforms — collect the VAT as you pay, and the package crosses the custom without stopping. Non-IOSS orders get assessed on arrival: Correos or the courier files the paperwork, adds a handling fee, and delivery waits for your payment — easily a week's difference for the same item. Since Brexit, UK shipments operate under these exact conditions. The tell is the VAT line at checkout: present means the fast lane, absent means budget for the bill, the fee and the days. (Canary Islands readers: your IGIC rules apply instead — see the island's answer.)

Citypaq is Correos' locker network — machines at stations, supermarkets and Correos offices where your package waits behind a code instead of gambling on your doorbell. Use it two ways: choose a Citypaq as your delivery address at checkout (register once, free, and you get your locker identity to paste into shops), or redirect a missed delivery to one. When the package lands, you get an SMS or app code — enter or scan at the machine, door pops, done, on your schedule. The wider pickup ecosystem works alongside it: Correos offices hold missed deliveries for counter collection with the aviso and your ID, and SEUR, MRW and GLS run their own pickup-shop networks, named in their tracking messages. The universal rule: collection windows are finite — the deadline is in your message — so treat the ready-for-pickup ping as a this-week errand, ideally folded into the supermarket run.

August is Spain's soft pause, and delivery feels it: many businesses run skeleton hours or close outright, some sellers stop shipping entirely mid-month, courier volumes thin, and coastal areas absorb half the country's population — so estimates stretch, especially for anything involving a small shop rather than a big platform. Puentes do the same in miniature: a festivo bridged to a weekend removes one or two working days, and packages simply wait out the bridge at whatever hub they reached. The playbook: check seller vacation notices before ordering in late July and August (marketplaces show them), don't read a two-day silence over a puente as a problem, and remember festivals are regional — a package can pause in Valencia on a holiday Madrid doesn't have. Big platforms with their own logistics (Amazon, AliExpress Plaza) keep moving through most of it; the small-shop charm comes with the small-shop calendar.

Three routes, three different timelines. France is next door: two to four working days standard, with next-day possible into Catalonia and the north. Germany runs three to six working days on the European road network — no customs, just kilometres. China is the long way: two to four weeks on standard e-commerce shipping, with the waits concentrated at origin consolidation and Spanish customs; AliExpress Plaza orders shipped from Spanish warehouses are the exception, arriving in two to five days because they never cross a border at all — worth filtering for when speed matters. Everything slows in the December peak, around Reyes (the Spanish gift deadline of 6 January), and through the August pause. Read your timeline by rhythm rather than the calendar: steady hub scans mean on-schedule, and the pause after "arrived in Spain" on a China order is the custom queue working, not a loss.

The essential dictionary. "Admitido" — accepted: Correos has the package, journey begun. "En tránsito" — moving between facilities; quiet stretches here are normal. "En proceso de entrega" / "En reparto" — out for delivery: today is the day. "Intento de entrega fallido" — a delivery attempt missed you; look for the aviso with the pickup office. "Disponible para recogida en oficina" — waiting at the Correos office, ID in hand, clock ticking. "Retenido en aduana" — held at customs: a non-EU package waiting on clearance or a payment from you, so check your messages. "Entregado" — delivered; if your hands are empty, check the doorman and neighbours before worrying. And "Devuelto" — returning to sender, usually after a missed pickup window. Whatever the Spanish says, your timeline here mirrors the same journey in plain language — and the sequence always tells you more than any single status.

In the two metros, speed is a solved problem: SEUR and Correos Express run next-day as the standard, MRW and GLS match it on the webshop flows, Amazon's own logistics hits same-day windows, and urgent couriers fill the gaps — so the fastest carrier is usually whichever one your seller handed the package to, since all the majors perform in Madrid and Barcelona. The more useful lever is the seller's warehouse: an AliExpress Plaza or Amazon order shipped from a Spanish fulfilment centre beats any express option that starts abroad, and marketplace "fulfilled locally" filters are the real speed hack. Outside the metros the gaps widen — smaller cities add a day, rural routes more, and locker or pickup-point delivery often beats home delivery by a cycle. Watch the first scan in your timeline: same-day handover in Madrid or Barcelona almost always means a next-day doorbell, whoever's driving.

“En reparto” means your package is on the van and your address is on today's route — genuinely the best status there is, with the usual asterisk: it promises the day, not the hour. Where you sit in the route decides whether the timbre rings at 9am or 7pm, and urban routes in Madrid or Barcelona legitimately run into the evening. Keep the doorman briefed and the phone answerable — Spanish drivers call when the doorbell or the building defeats them, and an unanswered call converts quietly into an "intento fallido" and a trip to the pickup point. Some SEUR services show a delivery window or live position in their app once en reparto fires; worth a look. If the day ends without a delivery, the package rides again the next working day, usually early in the queue. Two days with silence is your cue to call the carrier with the tracking number.

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

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• Keep an eye on Switzerland deliveries

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