In the future, Deutsche Post will be able to take more time when delivering letters. Good this way! If you want to send something urgent, you write an email anyway – and finally there will be an end to climate-damaging night flights.
It sounds like a license to dawdle: Deutsche Post should be allowed to take more time to deliver letters in the future. This is what the reform of the postal law provides for. The federal government wants to modernize the legal act; The Bundestag is expected to pass the new law in the spring. Many citizens are already annoyed by postal delays – the number of complaints to the Federal Network Agency reached a record high in 2022 and is unlikely to have fallen much this year. Therefore, at first glance, the traffic light coalition’s move seems like capitulation to a grievance.