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Post Office partners with DPD to offer in-branch parcel delivery option

The Post Office is teaming up with parcel delivery company DPD to offer a new in-branch service that gives customers a wider range of parcel delivery options. The new ‘Buy-in-Branch’ service will begin in selected branches in time for the peak Christmas delivery season and will allow Post Office customers to choose to send their parcels with DPD...

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DPD to roll out robot deliveries to 10 UK towns and cities

Delivery company DPD has announced plans to expand its robot delivery service to 10 UK towns and cities in the next 12 months, starting with Raunds in Northamptonshire. The roll out follows what the firm reported to be a “successful trial” in Milton Keynes and will extend DPD’s ongoing relationship with AI-powered robotics specialist, Cartken....

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DPD UK grows its green fleet with new Ford deal

Parcel delivery firm DPD UK has announced it will be introducing 1,000 E-Transit vans this year, growing its electric vehicle fleet to over 2,500. Announced at Fully Charged Live, a clean energy vehicle show, DPD revealed the Ford E-Transit on stage at an exhibition during the event. With the delivery of the first vehicles coming in May, DPD...

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Post Office partners with DPD to roll out ‘click and collect’ services

The Post Office, the UK’s largest retail network with 11,500 branches, has announced its first external tie-up in its 360-year history with DPD for ‘click and collect’ services. The deal will see DPD delivering parcels directly to Post Offices from next week, providing a convenient location for people to collect their purchases. The ‘click and...

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DPD UK to acquire same-day delivery specialist CitySprint

DPD UK is expanding its time-critical delivery capabilities by acquiring the UK’s largest privately-owned same-day distribution company, CitySprint. The acquisition, subject to regulatory clearance, will mean that DPD UK customers will be able to access CitySprint’s same day and specialist delivery services in the UK, while CitySprint will be...

People

DPD UK names Elaine Kerr as chief executive officer

Parcel delivery firm DPD has appointed Elaine Kerr as chief executive officer. Kerr, who has worked for DPD for more than 28 years, will take up her new role as chief executive from June 1 and report to Yves Delmas, chief operating officer of DPDgroup Europe. Delmas said in a statement: “Elaine has had a tremendous career with DPD and has been...

Fashion

DPD teams up with Asos to collect pre-loved clothing for free

Asos is partnering with DPD on an initiative to allow customers to arrange charity donations to be collected from the doorstep with their Asos order. The circular economy initiative, DPD’s ReLove service will see the delivery company collecting pre-loved clothing and delivering to one of five leading UK charities, free of charge. The service is...

Retail

DPD launches green delivery service across the UK

The parcel delivery firm, DPD, has announced its plan to deliver to 25 towns and cities across the UK with zero and low-emission delivery means by 2025. The green delivery service will roll out across Birmingham, Bradford, Brighton and Hove, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Coventry, London, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Plymouth,...

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DPD to add 6,000 UK jobs to meet demands from online retailers

Parcel delivery firm DPD has announced it will be adding 6,000 new UK jobs alongside a major infrastructure investment in response to what it is calling the “unprecedented boom in online shopping” caused by Covid-19. The firm, which delivers for many of the UK's leading retailers including Asos, has announced that it will invest 200 million...

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DPD tops customer satisfaction poll for seventh year

Parcel delivery company DPD has been voted the best in the business for the seventh year running, in money-saving expert Martin Lewis' customer satisfaction survey. The survey conducted on Lewis’ website, just after the Christmas and January Sales peak, was aimed at finding the best and worst parcel delivery firms and featured almost 9,500...

Retail

DPD records biggest ever Cyber Weekend

DPD UK has recorded its biggest ever Cyber Weekend, with parcel volumes up 13 percent on last year. The company has revealed it experienced record volumes of parcels in its four automated sorting hubs each night in the week running up to Black Friday and right through the weekend. Even though parcel volumes are expected to fall slightly this...

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DPD inks new five-year contract with Asos

Delivery company DPD has signed a new five-year multi-million-pound contract with online fashion retailer, Asos, under which at least 50 percent of deliveries within the London Ultra Low Emission Zone will be carried out by electric vehicles. The move is part of DPD’s development of sustainable services, which included the opening of the UK's...