The German directory of postal service providers, kept by the Federal Network Agency. Entry is constitutive rather than declaratory: since 18 July 2024 postal services may be provided only by entered providers, and a provider may subcontract only to another entered provider. It is a different legal act from the agency’s telecommunications notification directory, which it sits alongside.
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Partly open Result rows were rendered to an anonymous client with no credential and no payment, showing registration number, company, postcode, town, address, country and entry date. Free public reading is therefore observed rather than inferred. The record count, the "Stand" date and the hit counter are filled by JavaScript and showed placeholders to a non-executing client, so no total, currency date or coverage figure was observed and none is asserted. No filtered query was submitted, so behaviour under a specific search and any rate limit stay null.
Official name
Anbieterverzeichnis
English title
Editorial translation
Hosting
This registry is a distinct system hosted on the shared bundesnetzagentur.de platform.
Assessment
Strengths
Entry is constitutive, not declaratory: the agency states that postal services may only be provided by providers entered in the directory, which makes a search here legally meaningful rather than merely informative.
It reaches the supply chain: a provider may commission another provider only if that provider is entered, so the directory is the correct check before subcontracting.
Rows are readable without an account or payment, and each carries an entry date so a reader can see how long a provider has been entered.
It records whether a provider offers formal service of documents, which is a legally significant capability rather than a marketing claim.
Limitations
This is entry on application, not a notification and not a licence in the telecommunications sense. A provider must apply and be entered before starting activity; the agency does not merely record a declaration.
A transitional regime was still running at verification. Providers notified under the former section 36 of the Postal Act before 18 July 2024 may continue only until 18 August 2026, and only if they applied by 20 July 2026 — after which continuing to provide postal services is unlawful. During that window the directory does not yet show every lawful provider.
It is a POSTAL directory kept by the same agency that keeps the telecommunications notification directory. Entry here says nothing about whether a company is a telecommunications undertaking, holds spectrum, or holds numbers.
Entry records entitlement. It is not a statement about delivery quality, reliability, solvency, or whether any particular item was handled properly.
Absence does not by itself establish that a company may not deliver anything. During the transitional window a former section 36 notifier may still be operating lawfully, and services outside the statutory definition of postal services are not covered here.
The directory’s own record count and currency date are rendered by JavaScript and were not observed, so no total and no "as at" date is asserted.
Submission guidance
Records are created through incorporation, registration, filing, or statutory processes.
Submission difficulty
Unknown
Typical listing quality
High
Typical approval time
Unknown
Review process
Unknown
Best for
Checking whether a company may lawfully provide postal services in Germany.
Checking a subcontractor before instructing it, because a provider may only commission an entered provider.
Not recommended for
Checking a telecommunications undertaking. Postal entry and the agency’s telecommunications notification are different legal acts in different directories.
Assuming entry proves universal-service status or any particular service quality. It records entitlement to provide postal services and nothing more.
Preparation checklist
No checklist recorded yet.
Common mistakes
No common mistakes recorded yet.
Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.
What this directory accepts
Startups
Unknown
SaaS products
Unknown
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Unknown
Freelancers
Yes
Local businesses
Yes
Developer tools
Unknown
Open-source projects
Unknown
Non-profits
Unknown
AI products
Unknown
Mobile apps
Unknown
Ecommerce stores
Unknown
Recommended industries
logistics
postal-services
How the PetroHrys Score was reached
Editorial trust 15%
10 / 10How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
9 / 10How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
10 / 10How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
9 / 10How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
10 / 10How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
8 / 10How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
8 / 10How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
6 / 10What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
9 / 10How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
9 / 10How the directory maintains entries after publication.
The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party
authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number
on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.