09 Sep Increasing demand for “mobile stamps”
If you want to send a letter, you no longer have to go to a post office or a post office machine to buy a stamp to stick on an envelope.
Now all you have to do is reach for your smartphone.
More and more people are using this option.
Instead, they can book postage in the “Post & DHL” app.
A code consisting of numbers and letters is then displayed.
They write this code with a pen The service is only available within Germany.
As the name suggests, it is intended for people who are on the move and want to frank a letter easily using the app.
Internet stamps have been available separately from normal stamps for some time now, where consumers receive QR codes and have to print them out on an envelope that Swiss Post recognizes as postage on the subsequent mailing route.
There is no surcharge – you pay what the postage costs, for example 85 cents for a standard letter.
In 2001, Deutsche Post transported 22.7 billion letters; by 2023, this figure had fallen to 12.5 billion, 5.6 percent less than a year earlier.
So are letters and stamps a thing of the past?
Although the Bonn-based DHL Group, whose national mail business operates under the name Deutsche Post, expects volumes to continue to decline, it still considers this line of business to be important in the future.
“The classic stamp will continue to play an important role in our society, both as postage, especially for valuable, individual and appealing written communication, and as an object for collectors and ultimately as a cultural asset of Germany,” says Benjamin Rasch, Head of Marketing at the Post & Parcel Germany division. -> Read more at heise.de <-
