The online trading has given the Deutsche Post 2018 good Numbers – they transported as many pacts as never before. The profit of the group still fell short of expectations.
a year ago, the Chairman of the Board, Frank Appel had all the reason to Rejoice: His Post record quarter after another. However, last June, came up with the profit warning. Because of the booming parcel business, also drove the costs.
the bottom line is for 2018 now, we had an operating profit of 3.2 billion euros. But that is almost a billion less than a year ago planned. No wonder that post-chef Appel with a serious expression in the Bonn Post-joined Tower in front of the journalists and to the successful part of last year. “We had a very good Christmas business. Our Numbers in the fourth quarter in all dimensions, positive,” says Appel.
in Total, but it was the year 2018 for the Post-chief financial officer Melanie circle, not just positive. As compared with the previous year, there was a profit slump of as much as 15 percent. “If you look at the development of the group’s earnings, then that’s a step backwards compared to 2017.”
post-chef Appel: Serious expression on his face in spite of billions in profit.
1.5 billion packages transported> <p class="text small", And although areas such as the Express or freight, ran the business well. "We had a company that had a very difficult year 2018. That was our Postal and parcel business in Germany," says circle. On the one hand, trade with the stop the boom in the online the pay Package. In Germany alone, the Post has transported in the last year, 1.5 billion packages, an increase of more than seven percent.
on the Other hand, but that drives up the cost. Therefore, has prescribed the company a savings program, including early retirements in the Central made and the group Share converted. The but costs money and missed the group’s net profit in the last year of the damper.
“This is Important: We are not for a year, but it is also about laying a Foundation for 2020 and also for the time after that. And that’s why it was important for us that we have launched in 2018, the right measures in order to make the Transformation from letter to package in Germany in the medium – and long-term success,” said circle.
One of the major problems of the Post was, as before, the shrinking letter business. Each year, the number of letters declining to three per cent, because people have to put up with every year, even more on electronic channels such as E-Mail or WhatsApp. Since the package boom for the Post was quite a blessing. “But this is a difficult Transformation from small letters to heavy packages. The demands of our organization, the demands of the colleagues out there in the area a lot, and it is financially not easy to make in a profitable way,” said circle.
decision to Porto from
In the Letter, the Post is still waiting for the decision of the Federal network Agency about an increase in the postage. This could increase the standard letter from 70 to 85 to 90 cents. From the perspective of the Post at a higher postage is urgently needed. Because, despite declining letter, the deliverer would have to start to pay day-to-day budgets and growing costs, for example by increasing wages.
The rising of Porto is expected to contribute starting in the summer, the group target is met for the year 2020. That is: a minimum of five billion operating profit. The will, however, implemented mainly on the backs of the employees, criticized Christina Dahlhaus, the Chairman of the Union made three key demands:: “Deutsche Post AG has put everything under your group’s target of five billion. And the employees have to get saving to feel measures. We have always had ceiling as the subject of a much-too-thin staff. The deliverer, the employees just go to the load limits.”
On the Post to respond, in the meantime, at least in part, grants Dahlhaus. The company announced plans this week to create in this year, 5,000 new jobs, including in the delivery and in new sorting centres.
Deutsche Post intends to 5000 new jobs, 05.03.2019 Atlas |Germany |Frankfurt am Main
