Tag: Deutsche Post

PIN Group to lay off over 6,000 workers (GER)

Posted by | Apr 6, 2008 | |

The bankrupt German postal services group PIN is to lose over half it’s workforce after the administrators were called in.

PIN, which collapsed trying competing against Germany’s Deutsche Post after the introduction of a minimum wage for postal workers, is to lose over half of its 11,500 staff. The administrators say that 1,800 jobs have been secured so far.

A recent decision by a German court overturned the German government’s decision to establish a minimum wage and competitors say that the minimum wage was merely aimed at squeezing out competition rather than enabling rivals to compete on equal terms. A VAT exemption for Deutsche Post has also been criticised by the European Parliament as unfair.

The German government has promised to overturn the decision of the court.

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Deutsche Post World Net starts global climate protection program GoGreen

Posted by | Apr 4, 2008 | |

Deutsche Post World Net aims to reduce its carbon footprint for every letter mailed, every container shipped and every square meter of warehouse space used by 30 percent by the year 2020.

To help reduce emissions, the group will gradually replace its air and ground fleets.Today, two-thirds of the company’s 100 biggest customers are already pursuing their own climate protection goals. The reference year for the Goup’s efficiency target will be 2007.

To achieve its objectives, Deutsche Post World Net will progressively modernize its air and ground fleets. About 90 percent of the Group’s air fleet will be replaced by modern, more fuel-efficient aircraft. In addition, state-of-the-art environmental technologies will be used to improve the energy efficiency of sorting centers and warehouses. The use of innovative technologies such as hybrid engines and route planning will be expanded to reduce the fuel consumption of the Group’s road fleet.

The company’s more than 500,000 employees will play a key role in the GoGreen Program: Deutsche Post World Net will start staff awareness campaigns to encourage employees to reduce their carbon footprint at work and at home through measures such as driver trainings or energy-saving classes. Since the climate protection goal for 2020 also applies to subcontractors, the Group will work together with them to develop methods to both track their emissions and identify efficiency-boosting measures.

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Middle Eastern postal market poised for growth

Posted by | Apr 2, 2008 | |

Postal operations in the Middle East have the potential to generate significant value, but they have limited time before regulatory liberalization and the spread of Internet commerce start to erode their competitive position, according to a new white paper.

• Middle Eastern postal companies today are like their European counterparts during the 1990s in facing abundant growth opportunities.

• The sector has begun to liberalize, slowly opening opportunities for new entrants.

• Immigrants in GCC countries are demanding value-added services.

• Low computer and Internet usage in GCC countries gives postal companies an additional advantage.

Middle Eastern postal companies can take advantage of several trends that Oliver Wyman expects to feed expansion and cross-selling opportunities in the region:

• Large existing post office networks and strong, recognized brands, such as UAE Post

• Large local populations and growing immigrant populations, which require basic services usually available at the local post office

• Regulated markets, which allow Middle Eastern postal companies to set barriers to entry much higher for new entrants as deregulation occurs. Bahrain already has a fully liberalized postal market and Egypt has committed to liberalization by 2009.

• Low penetration of PCs and the Internet at present, heavy reliance on cash transactions, and skepticism about online security

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Air Berlin carries letter post

Posted by | Apr 1, 2008 | |

At monday 31st March Air Berlin started to carry letters for the German post office – Deutsche Post AG – for the first time.

From Monday to Friday night two Boeing 737-800s carry up to 12,500 kilograms of post each between Berlin-Tegel and Frankfurt am Main. Deutsche Post AG also distributes letters destined for Dresden, Rostock and Schwerin via Berlin, and from Frankfurt am Main the post is sent to Cologne – and back.

The Air Berlin planes operate under special licence, allowing them to take off from Berlin-Tegel at 23:50 hours to land in Frankfurt am Main at around 00:55 hours. The aircraft taking off from Frankfurt am Main leave the ground at about 01:00 hours and arrive in Berlin-Tegel at approximately 02:00 hours. The initial contract concluded with Deutsche Post AG is due to run until the end of the winter schedule in 2009/2010.

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Deutsche Post workers stage warning strikes to support union's wage demands

Posted by | Apr 1, 2008 | |

Some 5,000 employees at Deutsche Post World Net AG are temporarily halting work this morning to back demands by services union ver.di during wage negotiations with the German mail services company, a union said.

Some 6 million letters and 150,000 parcels will not be delivered today due to the warning strikes, Sigrun Schmid, ver.di’s industrial action leader said.

She said mail delivery in 14 German cities is affected, including Berlin, Hamburg, Munich and Frankfurt.

Wage agreements that banned compulsory redundancies of Deutsche Post’s 130,000 employees and limits weekly working hours of some 55,000 civil servants to 38.5 hours per week expired Monday.

Deutsche Post extended the agreements until end of June to allow more time for negotiations.

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