Deutsche Post intends to improve its service offer. In the meantime, the group confirmed, on June 13, 2008, that it was looking for partners (supermarkets, superstores, tobacco shops, storekeepers…) to take over, by 2011, the activity of the last post offices - about 750 - still managed by the Deutsche Post's employees. This is a "bad omen for employees and customers" said the Association of Postal Services and Communication Employees (DPVKOM). (Ref. 080510)
Conversion into postal agencies. “We won’t close the post offices, but we want to turn them into partner subsidiaries, which will offer the same products and services” Uwe Bensien, spokesman of the German post, told Planet Labor, reminding that this decision closed a process started long ago. Indeed, for about 15 years, the Deutsche Post has been gradually turning its postal subsidiaries (Postfilialen) into “postal agencies” or sales outlets. Currently, out of the approximately 13.500 subsidiar
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