Deutsche Post has announced that it will offset any unavoidable CO2 emissions due to mail transport with investments in its climate protection projects.
For the last 10 years, DHL has transported all parcels for private customers with its GoGreen service, which has been subject to a charge and only available to business customers with a shipping volume of at least 50,000 items per year.
However, DHL said it will, effective immediately, offset CO2 emissions for letter mail transport at no extra charge – to make letter mail more climate friendly for private customers – with investments in internationally recognised and certified climate protection projects.
According to the company, for the roughly 6.5 billion letters handled by Deutsche Post’s letter mail operations in 2020, this would translate into an offset of more than 300,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions.
Ole Nordhoff, chief marketing officer at Deutsche Post, said: “Already today we have, by far, the largest fleet of electric delivery vans, electric-powered bicycles and cargo bikes providing the industry’s most climate-friendly mail and parcel delivery service.
“And for years, our parcel customers have responded very positively to the climate-friendly shipping we have provided for all private-customer parcels.
“Now we are introducing this to our mail operations as well and making our entire mail transport greener. This also helps our business customers make their mail correspondence with end customers greener.”
In 2022, the company, which currently delivers mail and parcels carbon-free to more than 50% of its delivery districts in Germany, plans to expand its GoGreen portfolio with products that allow customers to play an active role in CO2 avoidance.
The measure is part of Deutsche Post DHL Group’s sustainability programme aimed at achieving zero-emission logistics by 2050.
