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Deutsche Post plans "Light" branches

2019-11-25T18:11:03.957Z


In future, Deutsche Post wants to offer fewer services in many branches and expand their packing stations. What does that mean for the customers?



Many Deutsche Post customers will have to adapt to a streamlined service in the future. The entire range of postal services will only be available in some branches in the future. At the same time, the Post wants to set up more packing stations and expand their service at the front door, reports the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung".

"We could imagine for the future 6000 to 8000 full-range branches, in which all postal services are offered," said Post Board Tobias Meyer the newspaper. Until now, Swiss Post has been obliged by law to operate at least 12,000 such branches. In communities with more than 2000 inhabitants, at least one full-range job must be located.

The services which are to be discontinued in the "Light" branches concern, for example, foreign inscriptions or urgent or value deliveries. These are expensive, but little demand, said Meyer. Therefore, he promotes less stringent requirements in the upcoming Postgesetzreform.

The total number of starting points will increase the post to up to 20,000, but it has especially in mind new packing stations. There will also be stamps - and longer opening hours. By 2021, the number of packing stations is to be increased to about 7,000. Up to ten percent of all packages should be delivered in the medium term - currently there are only three percent.

According to "FAZ", Meyer is planning an improved "door-to-door service" for older customers, for example for parcel stamps, returns and the sale of stamps. In the future, however, the postman will only have to pass five instead of six days a week.

Source: spiegel

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