Overview
- Germany’s telecoms regulator reports 629 applications to count Poststation kiosks as branches, with 72 approved and four withdrawn so far.
- If every pending request were cleared, kiosks would represent about five percent of the branch network.
- The postal network currently includes roughly 12,600 branches, more than 900 Poststation kiosks, and about 15,600 parcel-only Packstations.
- Regional approvals highlight a rural focus, including 17 kiosk branches in North Rhine-Westphalia, five in Rhineland-Palatinate, and three in Saxony-Anhalt.
- End of September data show 160 mandated locations lacked a branch; Deutsche Post says it has solutions for about half, as municipalities and disability advocates question usability and inclusion while a lawmaker urges kiosks remain the exception.