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Deutsche Post reveals massive change - recipients don't benefit

2020-09-16T08:42:11.746Z


Deutsche Post plans to deliver letters and parcels in fewer days than before. However, this does not have a positive effect on private recipients.


Deutsche Post plans to deliver letters and parcels in fewer days than before.

However, this does not have a positive effect on private recipients.

  • The

    German Post

    wants its number of

    delivery days

    to change.

  • So far,

    messengers have delivered

    letters

    and

    parcels

    six days a

    week

    .

  • Monday

    is to

    delivery

    of private

    parcels

    and

    letters

    not be more soon.

Munich - Even before the corona virus * was rampant in Bavaria and Germany, there were repeated delays in delivery, as an honest comment from a DHL messenger showed.

Deutsche Post

currently delivers

letters and parcels on six days - from Monday to Saturday.

For private

recipients

, however, this could change soon.

The company is currently working on the renewal of its Universal Service Ordinance Act.

This

defines

the

days of delivery

, among other things

.

“For us [...] the question arises whether we will be in

Germany

on Monday

need

comprehensive

mail delivery

, ”explained Tobias Meyer, board member of

Deutsche Post

, in an interview with

Die Welt

.

"A company delivery by

letter post

makes sense on the weekday, but that

is questionable

with private

mail

".

Deutsche Post plans to only deliver letters and parcels from Tuesday to Saturday soon

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Consumers can have positive effects in terms of lower postage costs

however, probably not expect it.

Although the omission of Monday would reduce the costs of the universal service somewhat, "this influence alone is not big enough to compensate for other effects and thus lower the price," says Tobias Meyer from

Deutsche Post

.

The

postage amount is

based on several fixed criteria and is approved by the Federal Network Agency.

We have in the

Group

140,000 workers are employed, many of which are in the last week of nationwide

strikes

have been involved.

The reason:

Deutsche Post

and its collective bargaining employees are not coming to a common denominator in the current collective bargaining - the offers are too far apart.

Most recently,

according to

ver.di,

Deutsche Post

agreed

to raise

the

wages of

its employees by 1.5 percent for a period of twelve months.

This is opposed to a demand of 5.5 percent.

"In addition, trainees and dual students should receive a monthly increase of 90 euros," says a message from the

union

.

Due to the coronavirus * and its effects, the number of

parcel deliveries

in 2020 is in the record range.

During the

lockdown

, when many people could only leave their houses and apartments in an emergency, there were even massive delays in delivery at times.

At the same time, this led to a large workload for the employees of Deutsche Post *.

Parcel delivery: Deutsche Post plans to deliver letters and parcels on fewer days

"It's not that we do

n't grant

our employees higher

wages,

" replied Tobias Meyer to

Die Welt's

question as

to whether the company's

employees

didn't

deserve

higher

wages

.

In

this context, the

board member of

Deutsche Post

mentions that the decision was made to “give all employees a bonus for their commitment

to pay".

Still, one shouldn't hide that the company

in the first half of the year, the

volume of letters fell

by 11 percent, the steepest ever.

The

parcel volume

, which

has increased by between ten and 20 percent

, “can only partially compensate for the decline in letters,” says Tobias Meyer from

Deutsche Post

.

In Austria, too,

Swiss Post had to

deal with the effects of the coronavirus * and a related scandal.

Post employees infected with corona had ignored the quarantine, which had serious consequences.

*

tz.de and Merkur.de is part of the Germany-wide Ippen-Digital editorial network.

Source: merkur

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