Postal strike: Another Sunday service at the weekend – Handelsblatt

40 hours of negotiations Marathon strike ended: Post and Verdi give themselves the hand

Bonn Even after the end of round four-week period strikes the German Post will deliver this weekend broadcasts. However, this will happen only occasionally in some particularly affected by the strike areas, the company said on request on Friday. For more details wanted a spokeswoman not do.

The company will strictly keep reaching out to all legal requirements, it said. Exceptions see before the Working Hours Act about when transporting perishable goods. Plans call for, among other things, the delivery of food parcels, as well as medication and laboratory programs.

The competitors of Deutsche Post

• DPD Germany is part of the DPD Group, claims to be the second largest network of parcel services in Europe. The headquarters of the company with 7500 employees, in Aschaffenburg (Bayern). In March 2015, the Parcel Service announced to challenge the German Post DHL with a single European brand. So the packet network to Europe will expand to 22,000 stations

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• In the postal services provider based in Berlin, the color green dominates – rather than post-yellow. The company has approximately 1150 employees and transported in 1999 in the capital the first letters.

• As an international trade and logistics service is a subsidiary of the Otto Group and employs around 9,000 people in Germany. In Europe, the Hamburg-based company 530 million shipments moved in the past year according to own data in the parcel and logistics business. Germany is one of the core markets.

• The Dutch company claims to be one of the world’s leading providers of express delivery services for business customers. This includes the German TNT Express GmbH, headquartered in Troisdorf (North Rhine-Westphalia) with approximately 3,700 employees. In 2013, the EU competition watchdog had prohibited a merger with the US parcel service UPS.

• The US parcel service calls itself the largest package delivery company worldwide with approximately 435 000 employees. By April 2015 UPS-Germany boss Frank Sportolari announced in the “Business Week” that the company wants to invest one billion euros in Europe -. Among others in expanding its sorting centers and in new PaketShops

Before the administrative courts had rejected in Munster and Dusseldorf this week urgent applications of the company for approval by Sunday work. (AZ 15 L 2301/15, 2312/15 15 L, 1 L 906/15).

The Post had based its request, inter alia, the need to reduce high arrears in the delivery of letters and parcels, said a spokesman of the Administrative Court in Münster. The company did not set forth sufficient if a reduction of arrears would be possible even without Sunday work, it said in Münster. The Administrative Court Dusseldorf directed against the fact that the general public had to accept disadvantageous consequences of a labor dispute in principle.

A Post spokeswoman confirmed that the processing of stranded shipments in some regions could still drag on for several days. In other areas, the traffic jams are already resolved, however. Sunday deliveries of mail during the ongoing strikes had previously been met with harsh criticism. Some states had prohibited. The trade union Verdi had the action then criticized as “illegal”. Last weekend, the bitterly fought industrial dispute was finally settled.