Important innovation for letters at the turn of the year - does it already affect the Christmas mail?

You can't send the Christmas mail early enough.

When it comes to postage stamps, it might be worthwhile to use up the old ones quickly.

It

's getting to be Christmas again in some of

the

.

And many are thinking about their

mail

and

parcels even earlier this year - not least because of concern about possible corona-related delivery bottlenecks for some articles

.

After all, Christmas greetings, money or other gifts * should reach relatives or friends far away in good time.

Package boom expected for Christmas 2021

And so, for example, the

record volumes this year during the Christmas season, as the German Press Agency (dpa) reported this week. It is assumed that 137 million shipments will be transported in Germany in the fourth quarter, around nine percent more than in the same period of the previous year, the company announced on October 19, according to dpa. A year ago, the forecast volume increase for the

at

that time was

around 20 percent, the dpa report said; growth is now weakening. But, according to the news agency, the 

In 2020, because of the corona pandemic, I posted huge increases and the comparative level is therefore high, an increase of nine percent is also a very good value.

According to the dpa report,

competitor

recently announced rather cautiously that it was preparing “for possible record volumes”.

Also read

Business with Christmas mail is booming well before Christmas Eve

The

last three months of the year are considered

in the parcel industry.

Business is booming,

especially around “

” at the end of November and just before

.

With

 and

is

 one of the larger competitors of the market leader 

.

Also interesting:

Swiss Post wants to increase postage - planned price adjustment from January 2022

The classic Christmas mail will no longer be affected this year - but whoever wants to send letters in Germany afterwards will have to

little deeper into their pockets

, according to Deutsche Post

. The company announced on October 6th that the various letter products are to be 5 cents more expensive each year from next year. A

letter, for example, will

cost

from January 1, according to the planned price adjustments

, a

a

and a

instead of the previous

And the

the company is turning the price screw a little more, as dpa writes: From January, the postcard will cost 70 cents instead of the previous 60 cents.

Tip:

Consumers should use up their

the end of the year

, for example with

- before letters have to be franked additionally.