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DPD adds 6,000 new UK jobs to meet e-commerce demand
- Date: 23/06/2020 12:25
- Category: DPD
DPD has announced 6,000 new jobs in the UK to help it meet new demand from online retailers. The courier company will be recruiting for 2,500 new full-time jobs in depot, hub and management positions, as well as 3,500 new dr...
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DPD's UK parcel volumes up 13% year-on-year for Cyber Weekend
- Date: 04/12/2019 12:33
- Category: DPD
DPD UK has announced its best ever Cyber Weekend, with year-on-year parcel volume growth of 13%. All four of its sorting hubs reported record volumes every night in the week running up to Black Friday. The company said it a...
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DPD leases huge warehouse as no-deal Brexit backup
- Date: 23/07/2019 10:00
- Category: DPD
DPD has leased a 71,000sq ft warehouse in Oldbury, near Birmingham, as a precaution against a no-deal Brexit on October 31st. According to DPD, the depot will be needed as imports from the European Union are impounded due to...
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DPD shows aerial view of new £150 million super hub
- Date: 21/06/2019 11:32
- Category: DPD
DPD has released aerial footage of its new £150 million super hub, which is under construction in Hinckley, Leicestershire. The 276,454 square foot facility will be the fifth DPD hub in the UK and the largest domestic ...
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DPD and e-cargo bike company team up to tackle pollution
- Date: 11/04/2019 15:34
- Category: DPD
DPD and e-bike manufacturer Electric Assisted Vehicles (EAV) have teamed up to bring a new model of e-bike to city centres for zero-emission deliveries. The Project 1 (P1) e-bike operates like a traditional peddle bike with ...
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GMB union withdraws support for DPD drivers’ walkout
- Date: 23/11/2018 12:33
- Category: DPD
GMB union has retracted its support for a planned walkout of DPD drivers after the courier company threatened to sue. Dozens of drivers at the Cambuslag depot in Glasgow have planned a walkout over the Black Friday weekend&m...
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DPD opens first all-electric parcel depot in UK
- Date: 18/10/2018 15:46
- Category: DPD
DPD has opened the UK’s first all-electric parcel depot in London, with seven more planned for development. The new DPD Westminster facility measures 5,000 square feet and its all-electric fleet will be able to deliver...
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DPD leases last unit at Martlesham Heath Business Park
- Date: 23/08/2018 15:10
- Category: DPD
DPD has taken a five-year lease on the last available unit at Martlesham Heath Business Park near Ipswich. The 32,986 square foot Unit One Beardmore has been let by Redwood (Light Industrial) Propco SARL, jointly advised by ...
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DPD tests “intelligent mailbox” for online shoppers
- Date: 10/08/2018 15:15
- Category: DPD
DPD Germany is testing an “intelligent mailbox” function with email service providers WEB.DE and GMX, which helps shoppers to organise their parcel tracking emails. The system automatically identifies certain ema...
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New intra-European deliveries with Transglobal Express
- Date: 02/08/2018 11:16
- Category: DPD
We now offer international and domestic deliveries throughout Europe with our DPD Classic service. Send from Spain to Denmark, Germany to Estonia, the Netherlands to Austria, and more—or send from one address to anothe...
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DPD launches Predict returns service in the Netherlands
- Date: 20/07/2018 16:16
- Category: DPD
DPD launched its Predict service several years ago to give customers more options for their deliveries. The morning of delivery, customers receive an SMS or email notification of a one-hour delivery window. If the customer i...
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DPD opens new distribution centre in Nottingham and depot in Barking
- Date: 13/07/2018 10:15
- Category: DPD
DPD has relocated its Nottingham depot to a newly built distribution centre on Blenheim Park Road. The 60,000-square-foot site has been purpose-built to “cover a more optimum delivery area”, accommodating 133 new ...
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DPD launches electric delivery trikes in German cities
- Date: 11/06/2018 10:42
- Category: DPD
DPD has launched eight new electric parcel delivery tricycles in Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne. The zero-emission trikes, named TRIPLs, were designed by Danish company EWII for use in metropolitan areas, where they will not ne...
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DPD introduces sick and holiday pay for drivers, abolishes fines for missing work
- Date: 27/03/2018 12:37
- Category: DPD
DPD is to offer its 6,000 drivers sick and holiday pay, as well as abolishing its £150 daily fines for missing work. This is as part of an overhaul of its employment scheme, which treated more than 5,000 of its drivers ...
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DPD publishes paper on autonomous delivery vehicles
- Date: 07/11/2016 15:36
- Category: DPD
DPD has teamed up with research partners fka (Forschungsgesellschaft Kraftfahrwesen mbH Aachen) and ika (RWTH Aachen University’s Institut für Kraftfahrzeuge) to publish a paper on self-driving vehicles. According...
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One-hour delivery windows with DPD Predict
- Date: 18/02/2016 15:34
- Category: DPD
Are you sending a parcel to Europe, but don’t want your recipient waiting at home all day for the parcel to arrive? No problem. Select our DPD service for European parcel deliveries and receive SMS and email notificati...
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DPD one of the best companies to work for, says Sunday Times
- Date: 26/01/2016 16:29
- Category: DPD
DPD has been featured in The Sunday Times’ list of top 25 'Best Big Companies to Work For', which was revealed at an awards show last night. The Sunday Times cited DPD’s company values and approach to customer se...