DPD is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 parcel delivery

Package delivery

Package delivery or parcel delivery is the shipping of packages or high value mail as single shipments. While the service is provided by most postal systems, private package delivery services have also existed in competition with and in place of public postal services.-Package delivery in the...

 company. It has more than 500 depots in more than 40 countries. The company was founded in 1977 in Aschaffenburg

Aschaffenburg

Aschaffenburg is a city in northwest Bavaria, Germany. The town of Aschaffenburg is not considered part of the district of Aschaffenburg, but is the administrative seat.Aschaffenburg is known as the Tor zum Spessart or "gate to the Spessart"...

. In its first year of operation, over 1.4 million parcels were shipped - by 1980 this figure had risen to 7 million. Today 2 million parcels are shipped every day and DPD is majority owned by GeoPost, a subsidiary of the French postal company La Poste

La Poste (France)

La Poste is the mail service of France, which also operates postal services in the French Overseas Departments of Réunion, Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana, and the territorial collectivities of Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Mayotte...

. DPD is one of Europe's leading B2B

Business-to-business

Business-to-business describes commerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler, or between a wholesaler and a retailer...

 parcel delivery services.

The UK carrier Parceline was acquired by La Poste in 2001. It was rebranded as DPD in March 2008.
The Irish Parcel service Interlink was rebranded to DPD in 2008.

The domestic service provided by this company has been heavily criticized in on-line review site

Review site

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External links

• DPD United Kingdom
• DPD Russia
• http://www.whyflyparcels.com