This is what parcel carriers deserve – What parcel carriers deserve

Published on: April 9, 2019 / Update from: April 9, 2019 - Author: Konrad Wolfenstein

Online trading is booming, more and more people are ordering online. Accordingly, many packages are on the way and have to be delivered to customers - but the parcel carriers are benefiting little from the booming order situation. As the federal government (Germany) states in response to a small query , the earnings of parcel deliverers have fallen over the past ten years. While a full-time messenger without a collective agreement received an average of 2,747 euros in 2007, in 2017 it was only 2,582 euros. The earnings of colleagues who were bound by collective bargaining agreements rose slightly, but in a ten-year comparison it was significantly less than in the economy as a whole.

The online trade is booming, more and more people are ordering online. Correspondingly many parcels are on the way and have to be delivered to the customers – but the parcel messengers benefit little from the booming order situation. As the federal government (Germany) states in response to a small request , the earnings of parcel delivery companies have fallen over the past ten years. In 2007, a full-time courier without a fixed rate received an average of 2,747 euros, whereas in 2017 it was only 2,582 euros. Colleagues with a collective bargaining agreement saw their earnings rise slightly, but by ten-year comparison, they were significantly lower than in the economy as a whole.

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