Business and Environment

Business activities and organisation

The world’s leading mail and logistics group

Deutsche Post DHL maintains a global network that offers our customers everything they need for transporting, storing and processing goods and information, from standard products to customised solutions. We place great value on service, quality and sustainability and we demonstrate social responsibility through our climate protection, disaster management and education programmes.

Our MAIL division is the only provider of universal postal services in Germany. We deliver domestic and international mail and parcels and we are specialists in dialogue marketing, nationwide press distribution services and all the electronic services associated with mail delivery. Furthermore, with our E-Postbrief product, we were the first on the market to offer secure, user-identified written communication on the internet.

Our EXPRESS division offers courier and express services to business customers and consumers in more than 220 countries and territories, the most comprehensive network in the world.

Our GLOBAL FORWARDING, FREIGHT division handles the carriage of goods by rail, road, air and sea. We are the world’s number one air freight operator, number two ocean freight operator and one of the leading overland freight forwarders in Europe.

Our SUPPLY CHAIN division is the global market leader in contract logistics, providing warehousing, managed transport and value-added services at every link in the supply chain for customers in a variety of industries. We also offer end-to-end solutions for corporate information and communications management.

We consolidate the internal services that support the entire Group, including Finance, IT and Procurement, in our Global Business Services. This allows us to make efficient use of our resources whilst reacting flexibly to the rapidly changing demands of our business.