UK Royal Mail wants to enter German letter delivery market

Royal Mail Group PLC wants to enter the German letter market via its GLS Holding unit once Deutsche Post World Net AG’s delivery monopoly ends in 2007, Rico Back, chief executive of the GLS unit told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in an interview.

Back told the newspaper that Deutsche Post mail carriers should be required to deliver mail from other postal firms from 2007, the newspaper reported.

Though there is no guarantee this will occur, such a system already exists in the UK. There, the Royal Mail charges rivals a fee of 18 cents per pre-sorted letter delivered by its own mail carriers.

Deutsche Post uses this service in the UK, but it does not reciprocate in its domestic market, Back told the newspaper.

GLS is the third-largest parcel delivery service in Germany after Deutsche Post and France’s DPD.