By improving the performance of its sorting systems, Swiss Post can manage increasing parcel volumes while maintaining the same level of quality.

Since the end of 2016, Swiss Post has delivered all letters exclusively with electric scooters powered by eco-electricity.

Investments

More capacity and efficiency

Swiss Post is increasing its capacity at the Daillens parcel center, sharpening its focus on automated logistics processes, standardizing the system architecture in its Postbuses, and has taken its last petrol scooter off the road.

In 2016, Swiss Post installed an additional, even more powerful sorting system at Daillens, increasing capacity at the parcel sorting center, the third to be upgraded after Härkingen and Frauenfeld. This allows Swiss Post to maintain its ability to process parcels to the usual high standard of quality – even with growing volumes and faster delivery speeds.

At the Villmergen logistics center, Swiss Post has brought a fully automated storage and picking facility for pharmaceutical small goods and medical products on stream. Swiss Post is the only provider in Switzerland to offer such a solution for hospitals and homes.

To ensure that all services for account management and payment transactions continue to run smoothly and reliably on a modern platform in the future, PostFinance is modernizing its core banking system.

In future, PostBus plans to equip its individual vehicles with a single computer, communication system, GPS transmitter, antenna and display. With the Integrated System Architecture (ISA) project, PostBus is investing specifically in the standardization of its IT systems.

At the end of 2016, Swiss Post took its last petrol-powered scooter off the road. This means all of Swiss Post’s fleet of approximately 6,300 two- and three-wheeled delivery vehicles are now electrically powered, and exclusively with “naturemade star”-certified green power from Switzerland.