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Sta costs relate mainly to wages, salaries and compensation,
as well as all other bene ts paid to employees of the Group for their
services in the year under review. Social security contributions re-
late in particular to statutory social security contributions paid by
employers.  e decrease is mainly attributable to the compensation
payment obligations assumed in the previous year as part of the
restructuring measures in the .
Retirement bene t expenses relate to current and former em-
ployees or their surviving dependants.  ese expenses consist of
additions to pension provisions, employer contributions to supple-
mentary occupational pension plans and retirement bene t pay-
ments by employers for their employees.
 e average number of Group employees in the year under
review, broken down by employee group, was as follows:
Employees
2008 2009
Hourly workers and salaried employees 456,149 435,072
Civil servants 51,304 49,691
Trainees 3,839 3,755
Employees 511,292 488,518
 e employees of companies acquired or disposed of during
the year under review were included ratably. Calculated as full-
time equivalents, the number of employees as at  December 
amounted to , ( December : ,).  e number of
employees at consolidated joint ventures amounted to , on a
proportionate basis (previous year: ,).
 Depreciation, amortisation and impairment losses
 m
2008 2009
Amortisation of intangible assets,
excluding the impairment of goodwill 826 421
Depreciation of property, plant and equipment
Land and buildings 203 282
Technical equipment and machinery 338 287
Other equipment, operating and o ce equipment,
vehicle fl eet 480 478
Aircraft 202 151
Advance payments 3 1
1,226 1,199
2,052 1,620
Impairment of goodwill 610 0
Depreciation, amortisation and impairment losses 2,662 1,620
Depreciation, amortisation and impairment losses includes
impairment losses of   million (previous year:   million).
  million of this  gure relates to the insolvency of Arcandor.
A further   million relates to impairment losses on property,
plant and equipment in the domestic  express business and
  million to impairment losses on aircra .
 Materials expense
 m
2008 2009
Cost of raw materials, consumables and supplies,
and of goods purchased and held for resale
Fuel 968 736
Aircraft fuel 781 454
Packaging material 390 317
Goods purchased and held for resale 1,352 1,311
O ce supplies 79 68
Spare parts and repair materials 92 83
Other expenses 100 83
3,762 3,052
Cost of purchased services
Transportation costs 19,483 14,791
Cost of temporary staff 2,321 1,904
Expenses from non-cancellable leases 1,735 1,820
Expenses from cancellable leases 469 405
Other lease expenses (incidental expenses) 185 145
Maintenance costs 994 957
 services 764 667
Commissions paid 343 341
Expenses for the use of Postbank branches 484 519
Other purchased services 1,439 1,173
28,217 22,722
Materials expense 31,979 25,774
 e decline in the materials expense is due to lower sales
result ing from the general market situation, to our exit from the
domestic  express business and to the drop in the oil price.
Other purchased services include a large number of individ-
ual items.
 Staff costs / employees
 m 2008
adjusted1)
2009
Wages, salaries and compensation 14,104 13,160
of which expenses for options
under the stock option plans 4 0
of which expenses under Share Matching Scheme 0 5
of which expenses from   Plan /  0 11
Social security contributions 2,382 2,638
Retirement benefi t expenses 1,903 1,223
Staff costs 18,389 17,021
 Prior-period amount adjusted, see Note .
In particular, our exit from the domestic  express business
led to a reduction in sta costs.
Retirement bene t expenses include   million (previous
year:   million) relating to contributions by Deutsche Post 
to Bundes-Pensions-Service für Post und Telekommunikation e.V.
Further details can be found in Note .
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