Market volume: €6.3 billion
Highly contested parcel business
We deliver around 2.5 million parcels a day in Germany and seek to make access to our services as simple as possible for customers. We have developed special solutions tailored to the segments in which our business customers operate. We support mail order companies, for example, in transporting their merchandise to consumers and carrying their returns. By way of more than 13,500 retail outlets and some 900 Packstations, we enable our private customers to send and collect parcels and small packets around the clock practically everywhere. In addition, we have successfully tested the 
Paketbox – a letterbox for franked parcels. We make systematic use of the high-speed medium that is the internet: Private customers can purchase cardboard boxes, frank parcels, place parcel collection orders and track items online. Business customers can register easily, and send and track parcels immediately.
In 2007, the market volume of the parcel business totalled €6.3 billion, which represents a year-on-year rise of 6.3%. Several very capable providers compete for shares in this highly contested sector. We stabilised our share at around 38%.
