Package record in Austria: sent 508 million programs 2024!
Package record in Austria: sent 508 million programs 2024!
In 2024, Austrian Post AG set a spectacular record: a total of 508 million packages were promoted, a number that underlines the company's impressive growth dynamics. In Austria alone, Post transported 224 million packages, which corresponds to an increase of 12 percent compared to the previous year. Peter Umundum, Deputy General Director, emphasized that the crowd had been quantified since ten years ago when only 100 million packages were transported. This shows not only the growth of the company on the domestic market, but also its international market presence in a total of eleven countries, including Azerbaijan, Türkiye and several Balkan countries. According to ots.at transported.
But the DHL also achieved a record: on December 2, 2024, over 12 million packages were sorted in one day. This exceeds the previous peak value from 2020 during Corona pandemic when 11 million packages were sent on top days. The increased amount illustrates the exponential growth of online trading, especially in the high season before Christmas, which goes hand in hand with actions such as Black Friday and Cyber Week. However, the increasing stress of the deliverers is viewed critically. Although the number of deliverers only rose by 5,000 to 115,000, the amount of packages edited rose by one million. The DPVKOM post office warns of the consequences of this discrepancy and criticizes the "catastrophic personnel policy" and the physical stress, from which many deliverers suffer. Christina Dahlhaus, the chairwoman of the union, urgently demands improvements in working conditions and adequate familiarization of new employees in order to meet the growing requirements, as Paketda.de
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