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L'expéditeur veut la leur remettre personnellement.

L'expéditeur veut la leur remettre personnellement.
The sender wants to hand it to them personally.
From Lesson 154:Double object pronouns with 3rd person (le lui, la leur)·French

Questions & Answers about L'expéditeur veut la leur remettre personnellement.

Why is the order la leur and not leur la?
In French, when you use two 3rd-person object pronouns together, the direct object (le, la, or les) always comes before the indirect object (lui or leur). Since la is the direct object (meaning "it") and leur is the indirect object (meaning "to them"), the order must be la leur.
Why are the pronouns placed after veut instead of at the very beginning of the sentence?
When a sentence has a conjugated verb followed by an infinitive (like veut + remettre), the object pronouns almost always go directly before the infinitive. The action of handing over is what involves "it" and "them", so la leur belongs right before remettre.
Since it translates to "to them", shouldn't leur have an "s" at the end?
No, as an indirect object pronoun meaning "to them", leur never takes an "s". You only add an "s" to leur when it is used as a possessive adjective describing a plural noun (for example, leurs amis, meaning "their friends").
Doesn't remettre usually mean "to put back"?
It can! While remettre often means "to put back" or "to postpone", in formal, administrative, or postal contexts like this one, it means "to hand over" or "to deliver" an item to someone.

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