TNT, Hermes cancel plans to offer universal postal services in Germany
TNT NV’s TNT Post and Hermes Logistik Gruppe said they have cancelled plans to offer mail services to retail clients and small companies after the German government decided to introduce minimum wages for the postal industry.
The two companies will not implement plans to expand the 13,500 parcel stations of Hermes to mail acceptance stations.
TNT Post said it will therefore not offer a universal mail service.
The German government last week decided to extend minimum wages of between 8-9.80 eur per hour, agreed by services union ver.di and an employers’ association dominated by Deutsche Post World Net AG, to the whole industry.
Hermes Logistik Gruppe is a Hamburg-based logistics group.
