Oxford has become the first UK city where all DPD deliveries are made only with electric vehicles, the company has announced. The news comes as all Oxford deliveries are routed via DPD’s new Bicester eco-depot, whose c...

DPD and tyre innovator ENSO are conducting a full road trial of a new tyre for electric vehicles that will reduce pollution from microplastics. Normal tyres are made mostly using fossil fuels, and cause air pollution through...

DPD has sealed a deal with vehicle manufacturer Maxus for 750 e Deliver vans, doubling their e-vehicle fleet to almost 1,500. The courier company has purchased the 72kw and 88kw versions of the e Deliver 9 model, as well as ...

Elaine Kerr has been appointed the new CEO of DPD UK, effective as of 1st June 2021. Kerr has been a part of the company for 28 years, starting as a Sales Executive in North West England and taking on customer relationship r...

DPD has launched a new air quality monitoring programme across six cities in the UK. Project BREATHE, as it’s been dubbed, will put air quality sensors on top of DPD vans and pick-up shops close to school and play area...

The number of scammers impersonating parcel delivery companies such as DPD and Royal Mail has soared in the past 12 months, according to analysis by payment provider Dojo. The company measured the increase in Google searches...

DPD has announced a record year of growth, with a 42% increase in revenue between 2019 and 2020. The increase took total revenue to 11 billion Euros. Like many parcel companies, DPD has attributed its unprecedented boost to ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...