Key events in 2024

During the past business year, Swiss Post celebrated its 175^th anniversary, invested in attractive market segments, expanded more branches into service centers, developed new solutions for changing customer needs and made progress in sustainability. Some significant milestones are highlighted below.

1.1.2024

Swiss Post is celebrating its 175^th anniversary. From its foundation in 1849, Swiss Post has been connecting people and powering a modern Switzerland.

17.1.2024

The electronic patient record (EPR) can now be opened completely digitally throughout Switzerland. The service is free of charge in several cantons.

18.1.2024

In the city of Geneva and in large parts of the canton, Swiss Post delivers letters and parcels exclusively with electric vehicles – free of fossil fuels and quietly.

15.2.2024

Going by the name “Post Mobile”, Swiss Post has launched its own mobile phone service. It is available in Swiss Post’s self-operated branches and at post-mobile.ch/en.

18.3.2024

Swiss Post is strengthening its branches as regional service centers: Bernerland Bank now has a presence at 12 locations, offering customers personal advice.

3.4.2024

International money transfer: with the global payment service provider Western Union, customers can transfer money abroad at the counter in Swiss Post branches.

1.5.2024

Swiss Post opens its branches and enters into a partnership with Banque du Léman. Now in 49 branches in Western Switzerland, the Geneva-based retail bank is strengthening its local presence.

29.5.2024

Swiss Post communicates its planned strategy for the next four years: customer requirements and digitization will determine the steps in its development.

14.6.2024

The Federal Council proposes adjustments to the universal service obligation. Swiss Post welcomes this development as an important step towards a modern mandate.

18.6.2024

Swiss Post now has 1,000 electric delivery vans for parcel delivery in operation.

20.6.2024

On the north-south axis, Swiss Post ensures that Swiss companies are connected to the logistics network and increases the efficiency of cross-border transport. Swiss Post subsidiary Iemoli Trasporti also opens its new headquarters in Lombardy.

27.8.2024

In Basel and the canton of Basel-Stadt, all deliveries are now made with Swiss Post’s own electric delivery vans.

3.9.2024

Swiss Post needs more charging points for its electric vehicles and Postbuses. Together with the fenaco cooperative, it is building a nationwide fast-charging network.

11.9.2024

The social partners and Swiss Post conclude negotiations on the new umbrella collective employment contract and two company collective employment contracts.

18.9.2024

Swiss Post wants to provide public authorities, NGOs and private companies with greater support in securing their IT networks.

9.10.2024

Cybersecurity: Swiss Post is at the top of the table among 174 postal organizations – for the eighth time in a row. This is confirmed by the Universal Postal Union in its annual ranking.

post-medien.ch/en/universal-postal-union-ranking-swiss-post-takes-the-top-spot-again/

29.10.2024

Fewer letters, fewer inpayments at the counter, fewer customers in branches: despite all of these developments, Swiss Post continues to operate 2,000 staffed locations in Switzerland.

13.11.2024

Since 2019, Swiss Post has brought eight new regional parcel centers on stream. In the next few years, it will modernize its largest and oldest sorting centers.

post-medien.ch/die-post-erneuert-ihre-groessten-sortierzentren (german)

25.11.2024

The platform for the electronic patient record (EPR) will be more user-friendly, and the reference communities will be able to integrate new services quickly.

6.12.2024

New record: in the days leading up to Black Friday until after Cyber Monday, Swiss Post sorts and delivers 7.5 million parcels throughout Switzerland.

post-medien.ch/black-friday-und-cyber-monday-post-hat-71-millionen-pakete-zugestellt (german)