This DHL packages are more expensive - also, companies have to sheets

In Germany are always sent more packages. At the Post office and co. the postage in the new year more expensive. But also the Messengers get?

Bonn, Germany - The Sending of parcels in Germany will be more expensive. Deutsche Post increased to 1. January the postage for packages up to 5 kilograms, the private customers in a branch stamp. The price increases by 50 cents to 7.49 euros, informed DHL package.

Online prepaid packages up to 5 pounds cost also still 5,99 Euro. Also, all other prices remain unchanged. The last price increase for a 5-Kilo packages have 2014.

with other package services, the prices are on the rise. In the DPD will have to pay, according to a spokesman for private customers depending on the package size from the new year to between five and ten percent more. Hermes in the not finally, is a price increase for private customers. "However, it is assumed that in the medium term, something will move," said a company spokesperson.

packages via DHL, Hermes, DPD: commercial customers must pay more

The package of services according to its own data with growing costs for their services. The industry leader Deutsche Post, had to cope with a drop in profits in the parcels business, wants to push through significant price increases. "Our industry has a fundamental Problem, because the delivery is to be paid to the low", had the post said CEO Frank Appel in the world on Sunday. The individually agreed terms and conditions with corporate clients increased to 1. January 2019 above average, had notified Deutsche Post in September.

Also, the other services and users and to turn in large verse at the price screw. The had increased to the Otto group, parcel service the Hermes, second-largest in the industry in Germany, already in the last spring, prices for corporate customers by an average of 4.5 percent. Further increases are to follow. In the case of DPD's business customers have to pay in the new year, 6.5 percent more.

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The industry expects in the coming years, a further increase in the in Germany, the sent packets. Deutsche Post expects by 2020 an increase of about five to seven percent per year. In the first nine months of 2018 had been abandoned at the Post office in Germany 1,047 billion packages, an increase of 8.4 percent.

package - boom and low wage: Hermes is not the driver

The continued growth in the package services before big problems in the search for new drivers. "The labor market is empty," had Hermes Germany, said CEO Olaf Schabirosky recently, the Hamburger Abendblatt. His company had been recruited in the course of the year, around 1000 drivers of competitors, which could have been better figures.

lower Saxony is planning meanwhile, a Federal Council initiative for the benefit of the subcontractors employed parcel delivery service. "The large logistics companies are responsible for the wages and working conditions of the subcontractors 'employees, Courier and parcel carriers do not escape", said Prime Minister Stephan Weil (SPD) on Friday. Similarly as in the meat industry, the major companies in the logistics industry should be made in the future for the payment of social security contributions of the subcontractor responsible.

According to the Union Verdi, only two of the five major parcel services in Germany work mainly with their own salaried mail carriers. "All package services must be in the tariff binding and you need to ensure that this also applies to the subcontractors and in accordance with the Tariff to pay," demanded the Deputy Verdi Chairman Andrea Kocsis.

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