Introducing the 2019 Trends in Postal Supply Chain
When I started working in the freight forwarding industry, 14 years ago, I got very interested and curious about the postal supply chain industry! But who wouldn’t? Postal services exist since mid-19th century and no one can deny that they have improved our everyday lives. The advent of internet and digitalization, in the last decades, have resulted, in a large extent, in postal services to appear redundant to all of us. However, that’s not the case. Traffic is indeed expanding in some areas and regions due to high growth of e-commerce but, this does not mean the generation of revenues and profits to the postal sector. The competition is fierce and the low profitability must be a signal for changes. Postal industry should embrace innovation and try to improve its processes, so we can see its true value. At Haulystic , we understand that digitization creates disparities in socio-economic conditions. Hence, we are here to present the trends of 2019 that will...