Shipping/concierge service in Berlin?

the store itself might have a solution if it's kaDeWe or one of the bigger places on tauentzien, they sometimes offer their own shipping for stuff like this if you just call and ask nicely. failing that, taskrabbit has been active in berlin for a few years now and you can hire someone specifically to go pick up and mail a single item, cheaper than a full concierge service for one coat

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You could try a service like "MyGermany" or "Mailboxde" - they give you a local address to ship to and then forward it to you. Some of the Kurierdienste like Wolt or Lieferando even offer pickup services now, though that's usually for food. For a coat from a specific store, I'd call the shop directly and ask if they work with any local concierge service, some of the department stores near Kurfürstendamm have their own preferred partners for this.

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If you know the exact store and it's not a massive retailer, try reaching out to the shop directly on Instagram or via their website. A lot of smaller Berlin boutiques around areas like Mitte or Prenzlauer Berg are used to this kind of request and might just pack it up and send it to a German address themselves if you pay for shipping upfront. Otherwise, you could look into a service called "PaketButler" through DHL, though that's more for receiving parcels at a local shop rather than pickup, but some of their partner stores might be willing to help if you explain the situation and offer a small fee.

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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