Deutsche Post will cut 8,000 jobs by the end of the year

In Germany, Swiss Post is reducing 8,000 jobs by the end of the year. It is about the letter and package business in Germany, in which the company had around 187,000 employees at the turn of the year- about four percent of the jobs are to be dropped. The dismantling should be socially acceptable. The company in Bonn justified the step.

The austerity program also affects other areas of the global operating logistics DHL, which is called Deutsche Post in his national regular business and has around 600,000 employees worldwide.

Increased costs are bothered by the group: Last year, he was able to increase its turnover by 3 percent to 84.2 billion euros, but the operating result (EBIT) sagged by 7.2 percent to 5.9 billion euros. The austerity measures are intended to reduce costs by more than one billion euros.

According to company, the Post & Package Germany area – i.e. the business of Deutsche Post – came up with sales of around 17.3 billion euros, which was an increase of 2.7 percent. The operating result fell by 5.6 percent to 821 million euros.

In the digital age, the letter has been dropped in a long time. Last year, the amount of advertising mail was significantly declining, as the company put it. The package quantities, on the other hand, increased.

The post office in Germany has been more of a problem child for the global group for a long time, other business areas are more lucrative-such as the express programs, which are particularly useful for sending time-critical goods and documents. Lief chain services and the freight business also bring more profit. However, the effects of the rippled economy and the geopolitical conflicts were also noticeable in these business areas.

When looking forward, DHL management is careful. You continue to expect “a steamed macroeconomic environment,” it said. “We also expect a volatile global political and global economic situation for 2025,” said CEO Tobias Meyer.

In Germany, Swiss Post was allowed to raise the posting at the turn of the year, the mail was shipped by 10.5 percent. That wasn’t enough for the post, she wanted to turn the price screw more strongly. The Federal Network Agency did not allow this.

The job removal in Germany is announced only two days after a tariff with Verdi for around 170,000 postmen, package messengers and other logistics employees. The two-year collective agreement provides for a fee of two percent and in the second year by another three percent. In addition, all employees receive an extra vacation day and long-time employees.

After the agreement on Tuesday, the DHL officer Nikola Hagleitner, responsible for Post & Package Germany, said that because of the economic environment and due to the collective bargaining, “cost reduction measures would have to be consistently expanded and accelerated”. At first she did not provide any further information. Post management now announces job cuts.