It has a decisive advantage: Red dot on the mailbox - what's behind it?

Created: 03/06/2022, 04:45 am

They are gradually supplanting e-mail and messenger services: mailboxes.

Some of them are even becoming rarer.

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Actually, they don't attract attention at all and they're also becoming rare: the red dot on the mailbox.

For those in a hurry, the point that has become rare has a decisive advantage.

Munich - there are currently 108,500 of them in Germany: mailboxes.

And only about 2,000 of them have a red dot.

downward trend.

But what does it even mean?

The red dot on the mailbox: That's behind it

The red dot on a mailbox indicates that it is also emptied on Sundays.

It is usually located in district towns, urban districts and at train stations with an ICE connection as well as at heavily frequented locations, at larger post offices or at letter centers.

So also in Munich.

There are currently 33 of them in the city area. They can be found, for example, next to the large post office in Theresienstraße, in Sparkassenstraße near Marienplatz or directly at the main train station.

If you want to send your mail in a hurry, you can conveniently display the locations on the Deutsche Post website.

This woman in Eberswalde* found out that mail can only arrive almost two decades later.

At these locations in Munich, the post is emptied on Sunday.

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The number of letters has been falling for years - Deutsche Post is reacting

However, Deutsche Post has been reducing emptying on Sundays for years.

Because the number of letters sent via e-mail and electronic communication has fallen by around 20 percent since 2010, according to the Universal Postal Union, the company has adapted to the falling demand.

In addition, there is no business mail at the weekend.

Deutsche Post empties most mailboxes every day or just once a week.

However, Deutsche Post does not want to dismantle the mailboxes.

A customer, on the other hand, sends mail very regularly and was annoyed by the changeover to the post office.