Home work allowance and 5.5 percent more salary for PostNL staff | NOW

PostNL employees receive a salary increase of 5.5 percent in total. There will also be compensation for staff who work from home. This has been agreed in the new collective labor agreement for the postal company, on which the negotiating parties have an agreement signed. In addition to the wage increase, there will be a … Read more

‘Abuses among nine out of ten parcel deliverers’ | NOW

At nine out of ten subcontractors of the four largest parcel deliverers in the Netherlands, things are not in order. As a result, abuses are the rule rather than the exception in the postal parcel sector, the Social Affairs and Employment Inspectorate (SZW) concluded on Thursday. NRC. Common abuses include unemployed people driving delivery vans … Read more

Stamps will be more than 5 percent more expensive next year | NOW

PostNL will increase the price of a stamp by 5.5 percent from 1 January 2021, from 91 to 96 cents. That makes it company Monday announced. The price for sending a package remains unchanged. The higher stamp price is necessary to cope with the ever decreasing number of postal items. According to PostNL, the increase … Read more

PostNL adjusts forecast for annual results upwards | NOW

PostNL is raising its expectations for the operational profit for 2020 to at least 175 million euros, the company said on Tuesday. According to CEO Herna Verhagen, PostNL has had a strong third quarter, which also makes a resumption of dividend over 2020 possible. At the same time, the second pandemic wave is creating more … Read more

PostNL will benefit greatly from the continued high demand for parcel delivery NOW

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 is a lot more to order online, and this development, in april and may in the future. PostNL is expecting a better financial performance as a result of this growth, as the company on Wednesday announced. In march, delivered by PostNL to 14 percent more parcels than a year … Read more

PostNL benefits from online shop explosion by corona in the first quarter NOW

PostNL saw significant growth in parcel post in the first quarter of 2020. The company made the biggest leap since the corona measures of mid-March. “Because many physical stores had to close, many small and medium-sized webshops showed strong volume growth,” the company writes Monday. However, the international parcel flow was hit negatively, which according … Read more

Parcel deliverers go to court to ‘PostNL | unfair rate’ NOW

The Parcel Association for Parcel Distribution (BVPD) is going to court, because PostNL would not pay a fair rate to deliverers. That confirms spokesman Pieter Paul Slikker to NU.nl. Last Wednesday, the association issued a letter (PDF) to PostNL for an ultimatum for Monday morning, with the most important requirement being a “concrete offer for … Read more

PostNL delivers delivery of advertising brochures | NOW

PostNL sells subsidiary Spotta, which throws 5.2 million brochure packages through the letterbox throughout the Netherlands every week. According to PostNL, the delivery of advertising brochures no longer fits the activities that the company wants to focus on. All Spotta shares are sold to Arcis, a management company. “The relationship with employees and the contracts … Read more