page_title: Deutsche Post
section_title: Post – eCommerce – Parcel division
hierarchical_section_title: Deutsche Post / Corporate divisions / Post – eCommerce – Parcel division
caption_attribution_description: Vorstand Deutsche Post DHL Group: v.l.n.r.: Jürgen Gerdes, Ken Allen , Melanie Kreis, Frank Appel, John Gilbert
context_page_description: The Deutsche Post AG, operating under the trade name Deutsche Post DHL Group, is a German multinational package delivery and supply chain management company headquartered in Bonn, Germany. It is the world's largest courier company. The postal division delivers 61 million letters each day in Germany, making it Europe's largest such company. The Express division claims to be present in over 220 countries and territories.
  The Deutsche Post is the successor to the German mail authority Deutsche Bundespost, which was privatized in 1995 and became a fully independent company in 2000. DHL Express is a wholly owned subsidiary.
  Since its privatization, Deutsche Post has significantly expanded its business area through acquisitions.
  In late 2014, the group acquired StreetScooter GmbH, a small manufacturer of electric vehicles. Two years later, the group acquired UK Mail, a business-focused postal service in the UK for US$315.5 million. The former company became a division of the Deutsche Post European parcel network.
  The Deutsche Post DHL Group 2016 earnings before interest and taxes was €3.491 billion, with a net profit of €2.64 billion on revenue of €57.334 billion.
context_section_description: The postal division delivers approximately 61 million letters every working day in Germany, and provides services across the entire mail value chain, including production facilities at central hubs, sales offices and production centers on four continents.
  This division inherited most of the traditional mail services formerly offered by the state-owned monopoly, for which it uses the Deutsche Post brand. Its exclusive right to deliver letters under 50 grams in Germany expired on 1 January 2008, following the implementation of European legislation. A number of companies are vying to challenge Deutsche Post's near monopolistic hold on letter deliveries, including Luxembourg-based PIN Group and Dutch-owned TNT Post. In 2002, Deutsche Post was granted a license to deliver mail in the United Kingdom, breaking Royal Mail's long-standing monopoly.
  In 2016, in Germany alone, the Post – eCommerce – Parcel (PeP) division delivered over 1.2 billion parcels, an increase of 9.3% over 2015, much of it as result of shipping products purchased by customers on-line. The e-commerce aspect helped to generate a great deal of revenue. This division's revenue increased by 4.1 percent to €16.8 billion while earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) increased by 30.8 percent to over €1.4 billion.
caption: Deutsche Post Group Board members: Jürgen Gerdes, Ken Allen, Melanie Kreis, Frank Appel, John Gilbert (March 2017)
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