First mail
| First Mail Düsseldorf GmbH
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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 2000 |
| resolution | 2011 |
| Seat | Dusseldorf |
| management | Thomas Schneider, Thomas Schmitz, Thomas Schlickenrieder |
| Number of employees | 1600 |
| Branch | Postal company |
First Mail was a private postal service company and was founded in June 2000 by Ralf-Peter Kals and Klaus Melcher in Düsseldorf . From August 2000 it offered a nationwide letter service for Düsseldorf. In the following years, First Mail expanded with the so-called formal delivery also to Cologne and initiated the establishment of a first, supra-regional mail service network in which many regional mail service providers as well as the WAZ subsidiary WPS (later PIN West Mail ) and TNT Post participated.
The owners sold First Mail to the former monopoly in 2003. Until recently, the company was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Deutsche Post AG . The company has meanwhile moved its headquarters from Pempelfort to the Lierenfeld district .
The former state-owned company built its “cheap subsidiary” to compete with the numerous private postal service companies that had emerged when the letter monopoly was loosened in Germany by only having to pay the lower wages customary there instead of the group's own wages. After the competing company PIN West Mail, which delivers in largely the same area, ceased its service at the beginning of 2008 after an insolvency , the larger TNT moved - so far successfully - to court and the cartel office because of what it considered to be an anti-trust takeover of the in-house delivery service of the WAZ group .
The expansion course of Deutsche Post AG with its subsidiary First Mail was not limited to the Ruhr area. The delivery area most recently comprised several large cities in the Rhineland and Westphalia with the zip code regions 40 ( Düsseldorf ), 44–47 ( Dortmund , Essen , Oberhausen , Duisburg ) and 58–59 ( Hagen , Hamm ) . First Mail ceased operations at the end of 2011.
The founders of First Mail continued to work in the postal sector after the company was sold: Ralf-Peter Kals and the managing director Christian Theisen founded the postal consolidation company freesort in 2005, which was sold to Francotyp Postalia AG in 2006 as part of the IPO . Klaus Melcher is involved in the ID8 postal company, which specializes in identity checks.
See also
Web links
- First Mail website (in the Wayback Machine from August 13, 2008 ) ( Memento from August 13, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ "DP has bought private mail service" (PDF; 1.3 MB) In: DVZ - Deutsche Logistik Zeitung of April 24, 2004, accessed on March 9, 2013.
- ↑ No more cheap mail service of the Deutsche Post. At Postbranche.de , June 20, 2006, accessed on November 8, 2011.
- ^ Deutsche Post: "Espionage" or Market Monitoring? In: Rheinische Post , April 26, 2004, accessed on November 8, 2011.
- ↑ Jan Schnettler: Livable working-class district In: Rheinische Post , October 10, 2003, accessed on November 8, 2011.
- ↑ a b Caspar Dohmen : Post goes for cheap. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 15, 2009, accessed on November 8, 2011.
- ^ A b Annette Berger: Post mixes up the branch with a cheap subsidiary. In: Handelsblatt , February 29, 2008, accessed on November 8, 2011.
- ↑ a b Leo Klimm: Post expands with cheap subsidiary. In: Handelsblatt , February 29, 2008, accessed on November 8, 2011.
- ↑ a b Birger Nicolai: Post gets into trouble because of cheap subsidiary First Mail. In: Die Welt , January 18, 2010, accessed November 8, 2011.
- ↑ a b Birger Nicolai: Court demands higher postage from Post cheap subsidiary. In: Die Welt , September 2, 2011, accessed November 8, 2011.
- ↑ Axel Granzow: One of the largest Pin daughters closed. In: Handelsblatt , February 29, 2008, accessed on November 8, 2011.
- ↑ "German Post decides Off for low-daughter" Under de.reuters.com of 22 December 2011, accessed on 25 January 2012 found.