Deutsche Post has been partially privatised but retains a lucrative monopoly of the letters market.
And it expanded from moving cash and valuables into a general parcels joint-venture with Deutsche Post.
Felix Blaich, from Deutsche Post, said work began in September to track the families down.
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The European Commission launched antitrust investigations into Deutsche Post , Germany's state-run post office.
Further consolidation will happen only slowly: the sale of Postbank by Deutsche Post is the likeliest next milestone.
Deutsche Post in 1991, when it needed to integrate the postal systems inherited from formerly communist East Germany.
Only the ex-monopolists at Deutsche Post can be pleased, which many suspect was the point of the wage agreement.
Since postal reform began in 1990, the portion of Deutsche Post's earnings made overseas has risen from 2% to 50%.
And Deutsche Post, with 60, 000 unsackable civil servants on its payroll, has prospered by turning into a global logistics firm.
Deutsche Post-owned DHL, but its general financial health is often monitored by conditions in rail companies like Union Pacific and CSX Corp.
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Among the areas she sees further gains are chemical stocks like Linde, industrials like Deutsche Post and Heidelberg Cement, and utilities such as E.
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The big flotation scheduled for this year, however, is that of Postbank, a subsidiary of Deutsche Post that is Germany's most successful retail bank.
Deutsche Post claimed that this and two other commission investigations would not affect plans to float 49% of the company in a few months.
Germany's post -- now Deutsche Post DHL -- was privatized in 2005 and has become a major player in the global delivery and logistics business.
Even if some subsidising is necessary, however, the amount thrown at Deutsche Post's parcels and other businesses looks suspiciously large, given the losses they sustain.
By next year a quarter of Deutsche Post's turnover is expected to come from logistics (freight-forwarding and the like), up from almost nothing last year.
Mr Mehdorn is spurred by the example of Deutsche Post, whose McKinsey-bred management has turned it from a sleepy sorting office into a global logistics firm.
Michael McNally, from Jersey Post, said Deutsche Post had been "amazing" in helping to deliver the letters and had gone to "enormous lengths" to make it possible.
So far 10 of the 90 letters have been delivered and Jersey Post said it would continue to work with Deutsche Post to deliver as many more as possible.
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Deutsche Post, for example, was fined by the European Commission in 2001 for abusing its monopoly by allowing its global parcels business to receive big subsidies from its letters franchise.
Likely sales, at some point, include more of the government's stakes in Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Post, shares in four airports, including Frankfurt and Munich, and a lot of property.
Nine out of ten Germans live or work within about ten minutes of free lockers operated by Deutsche Post DHL. The French and Turkish post offices also provide free locker services.
It will also enable DB ML to invest in foreign expansion it is the fifth-biggest logistics operator worldwide, but with less than half the turnover of Deutsche Post and its subsidiaries DHL and Exel.
Frank Appel, chief executive of German mail and logistics group Deutsche Post DHL, took charge of the company in February 2008 after his predecessor Klaus Zumwinkel stepped down following a personal tax evasion scandal.
Reluctant to see the government add to its liabilities by borrowing more, they were keen to see it subtract from its assets, by selling all of its stake in Deutsche Telekom and Deutsche Post.
Rivals mutter that Deutsche Post's huge investment in non-letters businesses is designed to ensure there is enough work for the 33 state-of-the-art package-sorting centres that it built at great cost a few years ago.
It is not clear who, if anyone, will be interested in buying shares in DB ML. Given the poor performance of shares in other privatised firms, such as Deutsche Post and Deutsche Telekom, the German public may stay away.
He told Forbes.com that it was not only mail operators like Deutsche Post and France's La Poste looking to use high-speed rail networks--now big projects such as the new freight railway between the Netherlands and Germany had attracted a wider mix of businesses.
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