Postal-, Courier- and Parcel-Services in Germany


The Postal-, Courier- and Parcel-Services in Germany is marked by number of companies provide services for private and business custommers. After the automotive industry and trade, the logistics sector is the third largest private sector in Germany. In the Post- and Parcel Service branch alone are working around 570,000 people in 2019. The conditions for workes in the Postal-, Courier- and Parcel-Services business haven been widely criticized.

Development

Since 2002, the industry has hired 70,000 additional people, but that is hardly enough to cope with the exorbitantly grown online trade.[1] With the CoVID pandemic online trade and parcel-delivery had an enormes growth. German Post and DHL said in 2021, world trade could recover from the economic slump caused by the pandemic, while at the same time the number of parcel shipments is likely to remain high.[2]

Labour rights and working conditions

Researche from University of Bamberg said in 2022, the companys would invest almost exclusively in technology. "Rather, smartphones, tablets, handheld scanners, onboard computers as well as control and assistance systems are used to further simplify workflows, to transmit the specifications from the headquarters in a smaller-mesh manner, to offer multilingual translations of work instructions and to enforce more precise and tightly timed instructions for low-skilled and semi-skilled workers." Investments are made almost exclusively in technology.[1]

Companies

References
  1. "Paketdienste: Gläserne Beschäftigte". www.boeckler.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-03.
  2. Müller-Arnold, Benedikt. "Post erwartet weiteren Paket-Boom". Süddeutsche.de (in German). Retrieved 2022-02-03.
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