At Christmas, the postal workers can rightly call themselves ‘Team Christkind’! With over 1.4 million parcels in one day, we have set an absolute volume record. By expanding our sorting capacities and the new parcel logistics center in Vienna, we can now handle such record quantities almost in normal operation. Our customers always receive the usual high quality mail. We currently deliver 97 percent of all packages on the first working day after they are posted.
Peter Umundum, Board Director for Parcel & Logistics, Österreichische Post AG
Vienna (OTS) – The yellow angels of the Austrian Post currently have their hands full: more than a million parcels were transported across Austria on several days in a row; the daily record for December 2023 is over 1.4 million parcels. For comparison: On an average day in 2023, the postal service will deliver almost 700,000 packages.
„At Christmas, the postal workers can rightly call themselves ‘Team Christkind’! With over 1.4 million parcels in one day, we have set an absolute volume record. By expanding our sorting capacities and the new parcel logistics center in Vienna, we can now handle such record quantities almost in normal operation. Our customers always receive the usual high quality mail. We currently deliver 97 percent of all packages on the first working day after they are posted.
“, explains Peter Umundum, Board Director for Parcel & Logistics, Österreichische Post AG.
High volumes of shipments like in the past few days are still expected until Christmas Eve. In total, the company expects up to 56 million letters and Christmas cards during Advent, and in December alone the post office expects around 17.6 million packages, an increase of more than six percent compared to the previous year. In order to handle these volumes of parcels and letters, the post office has over 1,200 additional workers on duty.
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