2023-12-26 12:14:33
Post will deliver fewer Christmas packages in 2023
Between “Black Friday” at the end of November and Christmas, Swiss Post shipped 21.6 million parcels – three percent less than in the previous year.
Swiss Post processed slightly fewer parcels in the run-up to Christmas than last year. Between “Black Friday” at the end of November and Christmas, 21.6 million packages were delivered, around three percent less than in the previous year.
At the same time, the sorting systems processed around 13 million letters, newspapers and mail every day in the run-up to Christmas, as the post office announced on Tuesday. Last year there were around 14 million.
The post office justifies the decline in parcel post with the clouded consumer sentiment. Nevertheless, the volumes were significantly above the average daily volumes in the rest of 2023. The annual record was also recorded in the run-up to Christmas: around 1.2 million parcels were delivered by post on December 18th.
In order to be able to cope with these capacities, the post office hired around 500 additional temporary employees and rented 330 delivery vans during the Christmas period. Thanks to the three new parcel centers opened this year in Pratteln BL, Wallisellen ZH and Härkingen SO, the daily sorting capacity across Switzerland has increased by around 20 percent compared to the previous year.
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