Today in Rhein-Main: 600 temporary workers for the Christmas mail

Good evening,

somehow people have stopped commenting on the obvious: It's snowing outside!

Barely enough to build a snowman.

But a bit of daydreaming about the much-sung about and so far seldom experienced "white Christmas" is officially allowed.

Today we are looking forward to the upcoming Christmas celebrations anyway.

The main station is about the post office and the challenges that the employees have to overcome.

Also about the death of Rolf Heller, the former Eintracht President and a bit about state politics.

The coalition is supposed to crumble.

At least that is prophesied in Wiesbaden.

Marie Lisa Kehler

Deputy head of the regional section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

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Packet Battle:

"Your package is on the balcony." The note on the small card that the messenger left in the mailbox is irritating.

Only the neighbor has a balcony.

And he's gone.

Everyone who asks friends about delivery anecdotes will hear stories like these.

The Deutsche Post is just as passionately grumbled as the Deutsche Bahn.

Too slow.

Unreliable.

And anyway: Why is the letter box empty more and more often on Mondays?

Our business editor Daniel Schleidt met someone who should know: Ivan Curdo.

He is the head of one of the largest mail centers in the country - namely the one on Frankfurt's Gutleutstrasse.

Fewer and fewer letters and more and more small packages are being processed here.

Because in November and December a lot is sent back and forth,

the Post works with temporary staff.

There are 600 in Frankfurt alone.

If you do well, you have a chance of permanent employment.

Because it is becoming increasingly difficult to find staff on the labor market, as Curdo says.

In order for the Christmas mail to work, he advises

Evidence of a crime:

The circumstances of the death of former Eintracht President Rolf Heller continue to be a mystery.

Over the weekend it became known that the public prosecutor's office in Thuringia had started investigations.

After an autopsy, there are now many indications that it was a matter of a homicide, one of the investigating public prosecutors from the FAZ confirmed. Clear signs of "possible third-party fault" had been found.

Relatives are said to have given evidence of a crime.

There is currently an initial suspicion against two people.

No retreat without prophecies of doom:

The announcement by Environment Minister Priska Hinz and Social Affairs Minister Kai Klose (both Greens) that they want to withdraw from state politics after the state elections is commented on and discussed in Wiesbaden.

Because Peter Beuth (CDU) had announced only a few weeks ago that he would be retiring from government office.

For Günter Rudolph, chairman of the SPD parliamentary group, one thing is certain: the black-green project is in danger of failing.

"Meanwhile, a quarter of the incumbent ministers have declared that they no longer want to hold government office." Our author Robert Maus summarizes the mood in the state parliament.

In addition,

the state and federal government will provide more than two billion euros to finance bus and train services in Hesse over the next two years.

It is already doubted whether this will be enough to secure the status quo +++ a woman's membership in the Hessian AfD has been canceled after the nationwide raid on the "Reichsbürger" scene.

She is said to have concealed her membership of the "Reichsbürger" +++ in his November report, our weather expert Peter Badenhop writes down what everyone already suspects: It was warm and sunny in November.

But nobody can apologize as beautifully as he can for why the November weather was so long in coming.

Stay healthy,

Marie Lisa Kehler

You can also read current reports from the region in Skyline-Blick, our live news blog for the Rhine-Main region, and on the Rhein-Main-Zeitung website.

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for Tuesday

Sunny at first, later thicker clouds, but dry for the time being.

Maximum temperatures between minus 1 and 1 degree

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Tuesday December 13th

Imrich Donath

, Honorary Consul of the Slovak Republic, President of the Akim Association in Germany, Bad Homburg (75);

, founder and managing director of the property development company Groß & Partner, Frankfurt (68);

, President of the Hessian Craft Employers' Association, Frankfurt (68);

, Director of the Celtic Museum in Glauburg (64);

, CEO of Datron AG, Mühltal (50).

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