Two new companies were founded; the Deutsche Bundesbahn in West Germany and the Deutsche Reichsbahn in East Germany. The Reichsbahn kept the name of the old Deutsche Reichsbahn, to keep infrastructure and the right to operate trains in West Berlin. Both companies had their own regulations from then on and they continued separately.
Deutsche Post is starting an experiment with boxes installed at people’s homes. This way the German mail service could drop the parcels in the secured boxes when a customer isn’t home. It’s all part of a greater plan, as Europe’s largest mail service wants to deliver more parcels, especially with the expected boost of food and consumer goods deliveries.
Deutsche Post is in any way not resting on its laurels. The Bonn based company is also upgrading its handling hubs to speed deliveries and is looking for partnerships with major retailers to expand the business, as Bloomberg quotes from the mouth of Chief Financial Officer Lawrence Rosen.
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As is the case with basically all mail services, Deutsche Post started with delivering traditional letters and packages. Now with ecommerce gaining ground with each click, Deutsche Post tries hard to get a fair share in that market. It sees itself as the carrier for online ordered parcels and wants to continue playing that role. Deutsche Posts now has a 40 percent share of the German parcels market and handled over 970 million items in the past four quarters. The company estimates a demand growing by 7 percent a year, powered by online shopping.
The growth could well be coming from web-based supermarkets and convenience stores. The online sale of, lets say, clothes and consumer electronics already matured over the last couple years, but with food and medicines there’s still a lot of room for growth. Something Deutsche Post understands, as it is spending almost a billion dollars (750 million euros) on automation, because it’s preparing for handling more food and medicine and to move toward one-day deliveries.
Deutsche Post DHL will be focusing more and more on the network of Packstations it has across the country and less on innovations such as delivery robots and parcel boxes installed at customers’ homes.
That’s what CEO Frank Appel said in an interview with Der Tagesspiegel. In the interview, Appel talked about the difficult year of 2018, in which the earnings forecast was surprisingly cut from 4.2 to 3.2 billion euros. He ensured however that having to save costs didn’t go at the expense of innovation.
Automation will take place in warehouses
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The company is still trying out a lot. For example, it has a robot that drives behind the delivery man to carry his letters and parcels. “Or we measure the inventory and monitor the security with drones.” He thinks automation will first take place in areas where the entire system is under control, such as in sorting centers or warehouses.
‘In 30 years, people still deliver parcels’
“In delivery, however, there’s still a very long way to go. It’s not enough to bring a package somewhere by using a robot. Because it has to recognize where the bell is, if it’s the right address or name and what will happen if the customer isn’t there.”, Appel explains. “So, I believe that even in 20 or 30 years’ time, we will still have people to deliver parcels. But we will then make use of technical aids, such as exoskeletons that can carry heavy packages. And perhaps, even small, high-quality items such as smartphones will be delivered by drones.”
3,500 Packstations
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Deutsche Post DHL has been experimenting with delivery robots, but Appel says these devices are still too expensive. He thinks it will need some innovation leaps until it will finally pay off. That’s why DHL is backing down on the experiments with delivery robots. Instead, it focuses increasingly on parcel stations, something it has been doing for almost twenty years now. “We now have 3,500 Packstations nationwide and are systematically expanding them. The only question is how quickly you can find suitable places for them.”
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He also reveals that DHL is backing down on the parcel boxes that customers can install at their homes. “The demand was significantly lower than we expected. Now, we have to think of something new. But trying out is the beauty of entrepreneurship.”