In nonurgent mail the part of the road is 98

The logistics of mail varies depending on product lines. The most tense stream is the priority letters, theoretically in J 1 but that can be filed up to 18 hours at night and who must get in the bag of the factors around 9 a.m. the next morning, regardless of the distance between the sender of the recipient. This means that the position has an amplitude of 16 hours to achieve the route. While 60 million objects are moved each day on average, including 25 million priority letters, the chain of domestic mail is hyper tense, without equivalent in any other trade, as is also the density of the mesh of the concentration and burst network.

Between the wickets and the mailbox, the test for measurement of the punctuality of the position is the quarter of an hour, respected 98 in all modes. Added a control device, based on a pool of penalty payment vehicles, to deal with the unexpected or climatic factors. To J 1 times, the group combines three modes of transport, between the road (81 of the flow), the air (15) and rail (4). The road, used within a radius extending up to 400 km, works at point point of plant to plant, when volumes warrant, either through one of the 9 hubs to dispatcher and products flow.

20 aircraft

The TGV is used for the routes between 400 and 600 km on the South-East axis Paris-Macon 2 night TGV at, extended by road transport in an area stretching from Besançon to Valencia. A third TGV is reserved for urgent press transport between Paris and Cavaillon with road collapse on the ACAP area. The aircraft is used beyond 400 km when the train is not possible or the 600 km of radiation of the train. The station uses almost exclusively 20 aircraft from Europe Airpost subsidiary that serve 14 domestic destinations in metropolitan France. Because of time constraints, there is no other appliances with flights that match the needs of the Group intends to keep a perfect mastery of the medium.

In non-urgent mail, the part of the road is 98. Trucks are used in a logic of accumulation with semi-trailers. The position manages a fleet of 500 heavy-duty rental and has 900 drivers. These means of him are used especially in Ile-de-France due to schedule shifts to 5 or 10 mn near and on the major axis. In contrast to the air, road transport is subcontracted to 82. The group is one of the first actors and donors of the sector to 800 operators order to have a very mesh network end of collection and distribution. To paste to the field, he is what he calls "the best local carriers" as Chalavan and Duke Montélimar or GCBD in Lyon.

Although that very straightforward, the logistics of the mail will need to evolve. As the deployment of the new industrial platforms provided by the Cape quality mail program, it must rethink its chain in the direction of a mass and a finer flows pilotage, combining more clients. Moreover, after rules aimed at reducing noise air night, came the obligation to secure all cargo at the stops at the end of 2007 and the rates of heavy reduction must also intervene in 2007. In addition, the post is committed to reduce 5 CO2 emissions at the end of next year.

Develop freight TGV

One of the consequences of these constraints will failover to important traffic on a TGV and conventional trains in all directions, "including combining the oars with other loaders". The objective is to increase the share of rail to 10 or even 15 in five to ten years, to the detriment of the air, responsible for one third of the emissions of CO2 of the position. "We are the only ones in the world to transport cargo by train TGV with three trains that we own", said Raymond Redding, Director of the mail. "In the long term, we are very applicants a larger cargo TGV offers." This mode of transportation becomes a real alternative to the air and the road for us.