must always ensure the Post, according to the current laws and to the position of postal services in extreme situations, the delivery of consignments. This does not apply to all consignments, but only the letters by registered mail, and shipments to post office preferred. Thus, among other things, the Federal and state governments, the judiciary, and health are meant to be. Ordinary citizens, in the extreme case, empty. To such an extreme case, however, it is fortunately still a long way off. But even before that, citizens must expect, according to the emergency plan, with some restrictions.

First, the daily delivery abolished

If the failure rate for the Post is below the Ten percent limit, it is a normal operation. The disease-related losses, should they exceed, the Deutsche Post of a restricted operation. From 30 percent of the operation is limited then strong, and at the latest from this scenario, the daily delivery is only in theory possible. The delivery then takes place on three days in the week, but this is not the end of the flag pole. The staff failures should exceed the 60-percent mark, the delivery will take place only on two days and 80 percent of even only one day of the week.

Worst-Case-scenario: If the mailings as usual to arrive, but only to a limited extent can be delivered, will be exhausted the storage capacity at some point. In this case, a “reception stop”. From this point, but we are still far. Deutsche Post provides solely for letters a capacity of 200 million shipments. For it to be rented according to the “world on Sunday” additional warehouses.

At Amazon for one month in threatening times

During the Deutsche Post is currently only on a contingency plan works is Amazon’s already moved in a separate operation. The retailer prioritizes the articles of the daily necessities, medical consumption goods, books, and articles that are potentially needed urgently, for example, to work from home. In the case of other products, such as, for example, a Monitor, customers must currently, even in the case of sale and shipping by Amazon and a Prime membership with delivery times of up to one month-expect – with a one-month delivery time is not a rare exception.

in addition, If the “emergency planning operation Covid-19” Deutsche Post is used (although only to a limited extent), it is likely the increase in delivery times, at least for some of the products again. Currently, however, there were no significant restrictions on the services in Germany, insured, Deutsche Post currently on the Website. And Amazon itself does not build, of course, only to Deutsche Post as a logistics partner.

This article was written by Artem Sandler

*is planning The post “Deutsche Post for the extreme case: The emergency operation” published by Inside phone. Contact with the executives here.

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