Quickmail (Switzerland)
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | August 18, 2009 |
| Seat | St. Gallen , Switzerland |
| management | Marc Erni ( Chairman of the Board of Directors ) Bernard Germanier and Christof Lenhard (Managing Director) |
| Number of employees | 189 full-time employees, 3,200 part-time employees (as of June 30, 2020) |
| Branch | Postal company |
| Website | www.quickmail-ag.ch |
The Quick Mail AG is delivers the first private company in Switzerland, which since the partial liberalization of the letter market addressed mail. It was founded in August 2009 and delivers addressed letters, mailings, catalogs and magazines over 50 g to business customers in Switzerland. According to the activity report of the Swiss Federal Postal Commission PostCom, Quickmail is the market leader among private mail service providers. Alongside Swiss Post, the company is the only correspondence company in Switzerland.
history
The company was founded on August 18, 2009 as a subsidiary of MS Direct Group AG after the letter monopoly was reduced in July 2009 to 50 grams. In September 2009, Federal Councilor Moritz Leuenberger granted Quickmail AG a license to transport parcels and letters over 50 grams at the request of the postal regulatory authority at the time .
The first delivery took place in November 2009 in the cantons of St. Gallen, Appenzell Innerrhoden, Appenzell Ausserrhoden and in Thurgau. The St. Gallen Rhine Valley and the Winterthur region followed. In May 2010 the cooperation with AWZ AG, a general contractor in direct marketing based in Bern, was announced. From June 2010, deliveries began in the Bern area and shortly thereafter also in the cantons of Solothurn, Zug, Schwyz, Aargau and Ticino.
The cooperation with APZ AG in Schaffhausen from December 2010, the cooperation with Aarmail AG in Birr from August 2011 and the cooperation with BVA Logistique AG in Lausanne from January 2012 opened up further regions in Switzerland.
As of March 1, 2012, the delivery business of the AWZ Group was taken over by Direct Mail Company AG (DMC AG), a subsidiary of Swiss Post . This ended the almost two-year cooperation between the two private providers. In the following years, due to the expansion strategy of Swiss Post in the area of unaddressed delivery, the cooperation with BVA Logistique AG and APZ AG was terminated and the regions were developed independently.
Since January 2018, Quickmail AG has also been offering the transport of letters and consignments from Switzerland to other countries. On October 22, 2018, it was announced that MS Direct Group AG is transferring its majority of shares to an investor group represented by Verium AG.
According to its own information, Quickmail delivered 98.8 million items in 2018 and has a market share of 2.6 percent of all addressed items under 1000 g. In 2019, the company carried 106.8 million shipments for the first time over 100 million shipments per year.
service
Quickmail delivers addressed bulk mail for business customers once a week. Delivery is always made on defined delivery days. The physical sorting and identification of the shipments transported by Quickmail is done using the Quick Code. In contrast to the postcode, this contains logistical information about the delivery area and the delivery sequence number; on the other hand, it is also an identification number with which each shipment can be identified and its route through the transport chain can be traced. This enables a new type of indirect track & trace for bulk mail. Undeliverable shipments are also electronically recorded using the quick routing number and made available to customers.
Household coverage and locations
Quickmail operates a total of 17 sorting centers together with all partners in Switzerland. The head office is in St. Gallen. At the end of June 2020, Quickmail reached around 87.3% of all Swiss households and 90.4% of all households in German-speaking Switzerland. In western Switzerland it is 80.1% and in Ticino, where Quickmail has been delivering since autumn 2016, 75.0% of households are served.
Postage stamps
The first stamp from Quickmail AG and thus also from a private postal service provider in Switzerland appeared on May 26, 2011. It is a block postage stamp with a value of CHF 2.50 and represents a postage stamp in the classic sense. The stamps are canceled and do not contain any Codes. On June 27, 2012, the Native Butterflies stamp series was issued with three self-adhesive motifs. A short time later, the stamp shop opened for private collectors on the company's homepage. With the double postage stamp Rendez-vous Bundesplatz, a noctilucent postage stamp appeared in Switzerland for the second time ever on October 1, 2015. The reason for issuing the stamp was the anniversary of the light and sound show of the same name. The self-adhesive brands represent the north facade of the Federal Palace by day and by night.
Quickpac
Since June 2019, Quickmail has also been delivering parcels with the Quickpac division. As the first parcel service provider in Europe, Quickpac relies exclusively on electric cars for the delivery of parcels and, according to its own information, operates the largest electric car fleet in Switzerland. At the end of 2020, Quickpac will open its third depot in Dietikon (ZH) and from there will supply another 300,000 households with 75 electric vehicles. According to its own statements, the company will be serving 50 percent of all households in German-speaking Switzerland with electric vehicles from November 2020.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Evaluation of the postal law Private letter post threatens to exit the Neue Zürcher Zeitung market , December 2, 2015
- ↑ SRF1 : Foundation of Quick Mail AG . December 1, 2009.
- ^ PostCom : Postmarkt: concession for Quickmail AG . September 22, 2009.
- ↑ Der Bund : Bern deliverers, EEZ in the starting blocks . June 11, 2010.
- ↑ Tages-Anzeiger : Post takes over the delivery business of the AWZ group . February 24, 2012.
- ^ La Region Nord vaudois : BVA Distribution biffe cent dix postes . April 1, 2014.
- ↑ Klein Report : Post takes over delivery company APZ Direct: 50 places in danger . October 11, 2015.
- ↑ Klein Report : Quickmail cooperates with Deutsche Post . November 26, 2017.
- ↑ Handelszeitung : Quickmail: New owner for postal rivals . October 22, 2018.
- ^ Neue Zürcher Zeitung : Quickmail exists next to the post . January 21, 2019.
- ↑ Quickmail: Numbers . December 31, 2019.
- ↑ Quickmail (Switzerland): Numbers . June 30, 2020
- ↑ Handelszeitung : Post rival Quickmail enters the parcel business . February 13, 2019.
- ↑ About Fleet : 50 OF 100 FULLY ELECTRIC KANGOO ZE DELIVERED . 15th March 2019.
- ^ Transport (newspaper) : Quickpac: Largest electric car fleet in Switzerland . 29th November 2019.
- ↑ NZZ am Sonntag : Quickpac parcel delivery company is expanding its electric car fleet . July 25, 2020.
- ↑ Limmattaler Zeitung : Post competitor expands: Quickpac opens new parcel depot in Dietikon . July 30, 2020.