'Nine out of ten Germans feel they can trust Deutsche Post delivery staff.'

87 percent of Germans trust Deutsche Post mailmen completely. This is one of the findings of a survey recently carried out by research firm Forsa.

And there was virtually no difference in the views expressed by teenagers and pensioners – consumers in all age groups respect the profession of mailman as one that personifies reliability and trust.

During the survey research company Forsa interviewed a total of 1,000 people in Germany aged 14 and older. The survey found that irrespective of the profession, age, education level and gender of the people taking part in the survey, the 80,000 mailmen employed by Deutsche Post were given extremely high trust ratings by well over 80 percent of those questioned.

The results clearly show that Deutsche Post mailmen enjoy a high level of acceptance among the public and are seen as reliable. Something that not every profession in German would be able to claim – comparable surveys conducted by Reader’s Digest, for example, have shown even that the approval ratings for judges or priests is nowhere near this level.

Another interesting finding of the survey is that even with today’s email, fax and mobile phones, there are hardly any Germans who never send mail. Only four percent of those surveyed claimed this. The letter as a means of communication continues to play a major part in the daily lives of people of all age groups – as does the mailman who brings those letters to our door.