Tag: Deutsche Post

Deutsche Post to digitise corporate post

Posted by | Nov 27, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post AG is planning to offer to its corporate customers digitisation of their mail as of January 2007, the company said on November 27, 2006.

According to the announcement, Deutsche Post will open digitisation stations in Frankfurt, Berlin, Hamburg, Hanover, Essen, Cologne, Stuttgart and Munich in January 2007. In December 2007, it will start operating such stations also in Nuremberg and Leipzig.

At the digitisation stations the corporate mail will be scanned and the data will be entered into the data processing system of the company. In most of the cases, the scans will be available in the data processing system on the morning of the day on which the mail is received at the stations, Deutsche Post (www.deutschepost.de) spokesman, Stefan Hess, said.

The company decided to launch the new service due to the higher requirements of its corporate customers, according to the project leader for Frankfurt, Peter Scheller.

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Deutsche Post to introduce part time work schemes for postmen

Posted by | Nov 27, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post AG will introduce part-time work schemes for almost 6,000 of its postmen and will aim to deliver all the mail to the recipients until 1300 hours local time, the group said on November 24, 2006.

Deutsche Post has more than 79,000 postmen who will be affected by the restructuring and will have to cope with reduced payment and changed place of work.

Unlike the parcel delivery and the sorting centres, where there are part-time and “mini-jobs”, up to now all postmen were on full-time schedule. Deutsche Post will continue to avoid “mini-jobs” in the future as well.

The restructuring concept will be introduced from the beginning of 2007 to the end of 2009. One of the priorities is to ensure mail delivery until 1300 hours each day in a bid to boost quality of service and assist its private clients.
As much as 90 pct of the mail for corporate clients and 80 pct of the mail for private clients is delivered by 1300 hours.

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German Hermes sees over 1.0 bln euro sales for 2006

Posted by | Nov 21, 2006 | |

German logistics services provider Hermes Logistik Gruppe, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the local mail order company Otto GmbH, expects to post more than 1.0 bln euro (USD 1.282 bln) in sales for 2006 due to its strong performance and fast growth on the market so far, the company’s CEO Hanjo Schneider said on November 21, 2006.
The annual sales growth is projected to reach the double-digit percentage range, Schneider added.
He did not specify the expected financial figures for 2006, but said that Hermes’s results will be additionally boosted by the strong demand during the Christmas season.
Since its foundation three years ago, Hamburg-based Hermes increased the number of its outlets in Germany to 13,000. The company is the biggest competitor of local postal group Deutsche Post AG on the market for package deliveries for private clients. Currently, Deutsche Post has a network of 12,500 outlets in the country.

Since September 2006, Hermes is present on the private package deliveries markets of 20 European countries.

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Deutsche Post to hand over running of 200 branches to partner agencies in 2007

Posted by | Nov 16, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post AG is to hand over the running of 200 branches in Germany in 2007 to partner agencies, a company spokesman said.

The partner organisations have not yet been identified, he added.

‘We hope that these cost-effective measures will lead to higher revenues’, he said.

The moves, however, are not expected to have a major impact on the company’s balance sheet, said the spokesman.

He added that the company is not yet in a position to adjust its outlook for 2007.

Deutsche Post employees will not lose their jobs as part of the plans: They will either be transferred to partner branches or to other company departments, said the spokesman.

Areas that will be most heavily hit by Deutsche Post’s plans include Hamburg, Dortmund and Wuppertal, the spokesman said.

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Apax sells TSO to Deutsche Post

Posted by | Nov 16, 2006 | |

U.K. buyout shop Apax Partners Worldwide LLP said Wednesday, Nov. 15, it sold its 71% stake in U.K. publisher the Stationery Office to German postal services and logistics group Deutsche Post AG for an undisclosed price.
Deutsche Post is buying TSO through its majority-owned Williams Lea Group Ltd., a corporate information management consultancy, which will use TSO as a launch-pad for its move into public sector business process outsourcing, or BPO.
The private equity firm declined to comment on its return on investment in Britain’s document service.
“The acquisition of TSO gives us a pre-eminent position in public sector BPO,” said Williams Lea CEO Tom Griffiths, in a statement.
The Bonn-based parent company, anticipating the loss of its monopoly next year, hopes the purchase will further reduce its dependence on its domestic mail market.

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