Mail and packages are delivered to Germany by an international courier and cargo service. In order to provide such services, numerous businesses compete. The logistics industry is the third-largest commercial sector in the country, following trade and the automotive industry. In 2019, approximately 570,000 people were employed by the post and parcel service alone.
According to a University of Bamberg study from 2022, planned investment almost exclusively focused on technology. Instead, smartphones, tablets, handheld scanners, onboard computers, control and assistance systems are utilized to further simplify workflows, transmit specifications from headquarters in a smaller-mesh manner, provide multilingual translations of work instructions, and impose more precise and tightly timed instructions on low- and semi-skilled workers.