Status: 01.11.2022 07:35 a.m
Deutsche Post is apparently hoping for support from the administration in the Christmas business. If possible, employees should help in distribution centers and with deliveries. The group also wants to recruit abroad.
According to a report by the “Rheinische Post”, Deutsche Post is calling on office workers to help out in distribution centers and with deliveries in the upcoming Christmas business if possible. The newspaper reports this with reference to internal statements by the board member responsible for Germany, Nikola Hagleitner.
The company explained that Swiss Post had long been appealing to colleagues from the offices to provide appropriate support at the “beginning of heavy traffic”. But such assignments are always voluntary. In postal jargon, “heavy traffic” refers to the Christmas business.
The company “always has the experience” that “our administrative staff feel the need to support their colleagues in the company”. In recent years it has been customary to work a day or two at the delivery or distribution centers, but the board apparently wants more this year – according to the “Rheinische Post”. So now we’re talking about a week.
Post expects up to eleven million items per day
The group is also trying to recruit mail carriers or employees in distribution centers abroad, according to the newspaper. Swiss Post is looking for additional employees “on all channels and with high pressure,” the company said.
Despite the looming recession, the group assumes that the volume of parcels in this year’s Christmas business on peak days will be as high as in the previous year. One expects up to eleven million shipments per day on individual days before Christmas Eve, the Post said in October. This is the same maximum value as at the end of 2021.
The year-end business is the most important time for the parcel industry because there are particularly many online purchases. Corona restrictions were a growth driver during the Christmas season 2020 and 2021.