Lit Line country board
Choose a country. The board shows its Lit Line status and every LitBuy route our 16 October reading returned for a 1 kg parcel, listed A to Z. Nothing is ranked and nothing is recommended.
The Next Lit Line Duration shown on LitBuy's page (27 Sep to 17 Oct 2026) has ended. Readings below are from 16 October 2026.
Germany
On a narrow screen, swipe the route table sideways or focus it and use the arrow keys.
| Route (A to Z) | Window | Size limit | Weight rule | Tax label | LitBuy tag |
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We did not sample routes for this country. Use LitBuy's freight estimator for a live list.
Self-operated or not: LitBuy does not label routes one by one. Confirm on the parcel submission page or with support before you rely on it. A LIT- name is not treated as an answer here.
Reading the board, left to right
Choose a destination from the list. The first group holds the 14 countries we sampled in LitBuy's freight estimator; the second holds every other country on the Lit Line vote tally, which totals 204.
The status line reads left to right: whether our sample found a route whose name begins LIT-, whether the country is on the tally with its vote count and its place, and for Germany, the fact that LitBuy's available-countries card names it.
Below that, every route the estimator returned is listed in alphabetical order. Alphabetical is a deliberate choice: the estimator's own order and any price or speed order would read as a recommendation, and this board makes none.
The four status lines
On our reading day four countries had LIT- entries: Germany (two), France (three), Poland (one) and the Netherlands (one). Two of those, the Netherlands and Poland, also appear on the vote tally, with 419 and 111 votes.
Many sampled countries sit on the tally with no LIT- entry at all: Finland leads the tally with 873 votes and returned ten routes, none named LIT-. Germany and France, which do have LIT- entries, are not among the 204 tally countries. The board prints these combinations as they are.
What the columns mean
Window is the minimum and maximum delivery time the estimator showed. Where the response named a unit we print "working days"; where it left the unit empty we say so instead of assuming. Size limit is LitBuy's own expression, for instance L ≤ 60; W ≤ 50; H ≤ 40 cm.
Weight rule is either actual weight, or the greater of actual weight and volume weight, where volume weight multiplies the three box sides in centimetres and then divides by 5000, 6000 or 8000 depending on the route. Tax label is printed exactly as the estimator gave it. LitBuy tag is the short label the estimator attaches to some entries; we add no tags of our own.
The two working tools on this site
This site has two working tools. The product search box on the home page sends a keyword to a finds search with our referral tag. The country board on this page reads a fixed, dated copy of LitBuy's estimator and vote data; it does not call LitBuy live, and its visible reading date is essential because route availability can change. When the page's Next Lit Line Duration passes 17 October 2026, the board marks the period as ended on its own.
For a live price or a heavier parcel, use LitBuy's own estimator: choose the country, enter the weight in grams and, if you know them, the box dimensions. That is how to use the estimator well: one country, one weight, the dimensions if you have them, and the date you read it written down. Open LitBuy's freight estimator
Why Germany is the default view
Germany is the only country LitBuy's available-countries card names, and it has two LIT- entries in the estimator. It is also the clearest case of a mismatch: the card names it, the estimator lists LIT- routes for it, and the vote tally does not include it.
Opening on Germany shows all three signals at once. Change the country and the status line rewrites itself; nothing else about the board changes, including the fixed line about self-operated status.
What the board cannot tell you
Prices are left out of the board on purpose. A price next to a route invites sorting by it, and prices move. The dated price table lives on the costs page, with the date in its caption.
The board also cannot see your parcel. Once your goods are in the warehouse, LitBuy filters the routes by the shipping limits set on your items, so the list you see at submission can be shorter. And no public LitBuy page says which route is self-operated. If that decides your choice, ask support and quote the route name.
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