Tag: Deutsche Post

Tenth Market Study On Licensed Postal Services

Posted by | Aug 1, 2007 | |

In the context of the debate surrounding the consequences of a partial opening of the letter market, and the necessity to gather basic data for further decision-making, for instance, in connection with market dominance, Section 312 of the Federal Net-work Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway regularly conducts market studies on both companies licensed in accordance with the Postal Act and those holding so-called old-type licences.

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TNT CEO calls for equal treatment of postal services in Germany

Posted by | Jul 30, 2007 | |

TNT NV said Deutsche Post should lose its VAT exemption to enable all postal services in Germany to compete on an equal footing, said TNT’s chief executive Peter Bakker.

In an interview with news agency dpa, Bakker also called for full liberalization of postal services in Germany by early 2008, when TNT plans to increase its offering to letters below 50 grams.

The company plans to increase its market penetration to 40 pct of German households during 2008 from the current 20 pct, he added.

The EU last week asked Germany, among other countries, to change its legislation of VAT exemption for mail delivery charges, which is not compatible with an EU VAT directive.

Earlier press reports had suggested the German government was contemplating extending the preferential VAT treatment to Deutsche Post’s competitors.

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Harry Potter gets special delivery

Posted by | Jul 20, 2007 | |

In postal delivery centers all around the world, hundreds of small parcels marked “not to be delivered before 21 July” are being heavily guarded. The content of each package is the same: the latest novel recounting the adventures of Harry Potter.

On 21 July 2007, millions of copies of the seventh and final Harry Potter novel will go on sale in bookshops and other outlets. And for those who have already placed their order by mail, phone or Internet, it is often the postman who will deliver this long-awaited book.

In the United States, for example, USPS delivered 1.8 million books on Saturday, while in the United Kingdom Royal Mail delivered 600,000 copies; in other words, by the British operator’s reckoning, one UK household in 43 will receive the book by post. Canada Post distributed 80 000 copies. Swiss Post and France’s La Poste made also special deliveries on 21 July. Operators are pulling out all the stops to ensure that the millions of books were delivered on time.

From 2004 to 2005, the global number of ordinary parcels sent domestically and internationally rose by 11 pct, for a total of 6 billion parcels delivered annually representing 16 millions per day. It’s unusual for so many identical articles to be delivered within such a short space of time, and some postal operators have looked for innovative delivery solutions. For example, Deutsche Post, the German operator, and Swiss Post delivered the book to impatient readers shortly after midnight in 2005 (and also in 2003 in Germany).

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Postbank sells life insurance activities to Talanx

Posted by | Jul 18, 2007 | |

Postbank, the banking arm of the semi-privatised German postal service Deutsche Post, said Wednesday it has agreed to sell its life insurance activities, including the unit BHW Leben, to German insurer Talanx for 550 million euros (759 million dollars).

Hanover-based Talanx will also buy BHW Pensionskasse and Postbank’s 50-percent stakes in the two insurance joint ventures PB Leben and PB Versicherung, the two companies said in a joint statement.

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German chancellor Merkel rejects minimum wage for postal employees this year

Posted by | Jul 15, 2007 | |

German chancellor Angela Merkel told newspaper Handelsblatt she has rejected a move by her Social Democratic (SPD) coalition partners to create a minimum wage for employees in the postal sector this year.

However, she said companies in the sector could request to have their industry included in the minimum wage codex by March next year.

‘Inclusion in the wage codex assumes that various competitors can agree amongst themselves,’ she added

But the newspaper added that an intra-industry agreement was unlikely, because several competitors pay considerably lower wages than the former state monopoly, Deustche Post AG.

The SPD wants to create a minimum wage for the industry’s workers, whose wages it maintains are under threat from foreign competitors active in Germany.

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