Postal service organisations suffer from important Green House Gas (GHG) emission and faces strong reduction challenges to reach the 20-20-20 target. This is mainly due to their very large vehicle fleets, as well as their extensive distribution networks. Fuel cells & hydrogen technologies (H&FCs) can help postal services organisation solve their challenge and bring a clean, efficient and sustainable solution.  The potential of H&FCs can bring a huge contribution to postal services sustainable objectives, thanks to fuel cell & hydrogen delivery vans,  stationary power application (CHP) as well as in-house applications (forklfits, material handling).

FuelCellEurope has set up a "Postal Service Customer Application group" to integrate fuel cells & hydrogen technologies in this area. 

FuelCellEurope's mission  is to support initiatives and demand-driven requests,  through facilitation of meetings between supply and demand.

Recent activities include the publication of a joint press release with Royal Mail, PostEurope, Cenex & FuelCellEurope to inform about their joint efforts towards the development of a universal design specification for postal service hydrogen vans in view of accelerating the development of fuel cell & hydrogen vehicles in the postal services organisation. FuelCellEurope is also contributing to the organisation of events / workshops and may as well support ad hoc initiatives or projects. 

In particular, meetings have been held with major European Postal organisations, such as La Poste (FR) or DeutschePost (DE), as well as the International Postal Organisation (IPC)  to present and promote the Royal Mail initiative, and create a leading example for the postal services organisations. 

FuelCellEurope is currently working with PostEurope to identify concrete Fuel cell projects opportunities and fundings. As a direct consequence,  a task force between Royal Mail, FuelCellEurope and PostEurope has been set up to steer the development of the fuel cells delivery vehicles joint project.