How to choose a delivery company in Algeria: 10 verified criteria (COD cap and remittance time, returns, stop desks, rates, API), the documents to prepare and the questions to ask before you sign, so your cash flow stays protected.
Logistics
Zimou Express
Zimou Express is an Algerian logistics platform that lets online sellers ship through 7 partner delivery companies from a single account, with express, flexible or pickup-point delivery and a fulfillment service.
- Location
- DZ
- Founded
- 2020
- Services
- Multi-carrier shipping from one account (7 partners) · Express delivery · Flexible delivery · Point Relais delivery (office pickup) · Fulfillment: storage, picking, packing, dispatch · Real-time parcel tracking and merchant dashboard · Customer service and claims handling
What Zimou Express does
Zimou Express describes itself as an Algerian logistics platform for businesses that sell online. It groups 7 partner delivery companies (Yalidine, ZR Express, Maystro Delivery, DHD, World Express, Noest and Anderson) so a merchant can manage every shipment from one account. According to the company, it has served online sellers for more than 6 years and has more than 8,000 active clients. Its website gives 2020 as the founding year. These figures have not been independently confirmed.
Services
- Express delivery, for orders that need to arrive quickly.
- Flexible delivery, presented as a way to keep transport costs down.
- Point Relais delivery: the customer collects the parcel at an office of their choice.
- Fulfillment: product storage, order preparation, packing and daily dispatch.
- Customer service that follows each order and handles claims.
- A web merchant dashboard with parcel tracking, statistics, order management and tickets.
Coverage and how it works
The website advertises "more than 802 offices" across the 69 wilayas, but the coverage page counter showed 797 offices when we read it on 3 November 2026, and only 10 of them are Zimou Express offices: the rest belong to partner couriers. The list only showed offices in 63 wilayas, 91 of them in Algiers. Its own offices include Hussein Dey (Algiers) and Oran. Stated delivery times are 24 to 48 hours for northern wilayas and 72 hours or more for the south.
No prices are published: the rates page, read on 3 November 2026, says rates depend on the departure wilaya and the rate grid is emailed after a sign-up form. Customer service: 0982 30 14 04, [email protected], Sunday to Thursday, 8:30 to 17:00.
Things to check
- Returns are free "with the majority of partners", not all of them.
- Cash-on-delivery terms (remittance, timing, fees) are not described on the official pages we read.
- No Zimou Express app was found on Google Play (3 November 2026), and no legal name or head-office address is published.
- DZBuild lists Zimou Express as a courier API integration and says it syncs its stop-desk lists. See also our Shipping & logistics section.
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