An employee of DHL poses for media in Berlin to promote a new service to deliver parcels in the trunk of smart cars, Germany, March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
The modern postal system emerged half a millennium ago, when Habsburg royalty commissioned a courier network to learn swiftly of trouble brewing across the empire.
Today, Germany's dominant mail operator Deutsche Post AG has an equally impatient customer base, but now it's Amazon-addicted millennials rather than rattled royals.
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