Due to a lack of staff, PostNL struggles to deliver mail five days a week. How are they solving this? By issuing permanent contracts and employing students! 📦
The labour crisis continues to take its toll on companies across the Netherlands — and to avoid the slump, one of the Dutch’s favourite parcel services has been busy cooking up an action plan. 🤔
So, what’s the plan?
PostNL faces huge pressure to keep up with its own delivery schedule. With very few people to do the job, it’s not the least bit surprising. 🙄
It’s also becoming increasingly difficult to get deliverers in a market that’s in bad condition.
However, the company has a plan underway: to issue permanent contracts to its delivery staff and experiment with evening deliveries using students.
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PostNL believes that offering their services in the evenings should make the job more appealing to students — thus bringing in more chances for hiring staff (and higher odds to finally get our packages on time 🙄).
“It is, in any case, a side job, which can therefore be done between 5 pm and 8 pm. Students and school pupils are busy during the day with the most important thing they have to do: study”, the director of PostNL, Bob van Ireland, told NU.nl.
When and where will the plan commence?
PostNL plans to conduct a trial run in ten cities across the Netherlands, where students and staff members will start delivering mail in the evenings.
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The trial will run until the end of October, and if it’s successful, the company will continue offering this grand service to its customers! 🤩
What do you think about PostNL starting evening deliveries? Tell us in the comments below! 👇
