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Deutsche Post plans major parcel restructuring in Germany

Posted by | Dec 4, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post is reportedly planning to merge its parcel delivery operations in Germany into the mail business in one of its largest restructuring moves for a decade. At the same time, unions are threatening strike action over plans to lengthen working times next year.

According to a report in German newspaper Die Welt, there would be only one delivery organization and one administration for both the mail and parcel businesses. At present, there are separate delivery organizations for parcels and mail in urban areas, while rural deliveries are bundled into one service. The 83 mail sorting centres and 33 parcel sorting centres that are no longer fully utilised could also be combined into one structure.

Unions Verdi and DPV said they feared a new round of job cuts among tens of thousands of staff affected by the move. Deutsche Post’s domestic parcel business is reportedly loss-making due to high operational costs of the parcel sorting centres and pay levels above those of competitors.

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Deutsche Post to merge parcel delivery ops in Germany with mail ops – report

Posted by | Dec 4, 2006 | |

Deutsche Post World Net AG is planning to integrate its parcel delivery operations in Germany with the mail delivery operations, Die Welt said, citing company sources.

It said the move will be part of a radical restructuring of the company’s ailing parcel delivery operations.

Trade union officials said they are worried the move could affect around 180,000 employees.

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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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China, Russia and Germany consider logistics JV

Posted by | Nov 24, 2006 | |

Russian Railways, Deutsche Bahn and China’s Ministry of Railways signed a Memorandum on Co-operation in Beijing on November 20, 2006, in respect of greater co-operation on Eurasian railway transportation.

The goal of the three parties is to increase rail freight between China and Europe via Russia, and to develop competitive market services in rail transport and logistics.

The parties agreed to establish a joint co-ordinating committee, chaired by Liu Zhijun, China’s Minister of Railways; Hans Mehdorn, CEO of Deutsche Bahn; and Vladimir Yakunin, president of Russian Railways.

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