DPD Switzerland has launched a new service, called DPD PARCELLETTER, which can be used to send heavy letters, while also debuting a new partnership with start-up ImagineCargo for climate-neutral parcel delivery.
With the DPD PARCELLETTER, items from 50 grams to 2 kgs are delivered directly to the recipient’s home letterbox. By determining the maximum permissible weight, the company ensures items can be delivered directly to the letterbox. The service also ensures very high delivery successes from the very first delivery attempt.
Jasmine Zurbuchen, DPD PARCELLETTER project manager, explained: “For the time being, we are offering the new service to customers who ship items on a daily basis. In the future, however, we plan on expanding the service across Switzerland, examining each customer request individually.”
In addition, DPD Switzerland has recently launched two services for international parcel shipments to private individuals, called DPD SHOP INTERNATIONAL and DPD COMFORT INTERNATIONAL. Both features correspond with the needs of European online shoppers, who prefer to collect their shipments from a pickup shop.
The DPD COMFORT INTERNATIONAL service allows shipments to be delivered to the recipient's desired address. In advance, the recipient receives a shipment notification with a delivery time window for the delivery. The recipient can then live track the shipment and has various redirection options, such as changing the delivery date or redirecting the shipment to a different address.
Moreover, DPD Switzerland has partnered with Berlin-based start-up ImagineCargo to ecologically deliver each parcel either by bicycle or electric vehicle, in order to reduce harmful emissions especially in metropolitan areas.
By combining DPD’s 27-year long experience of parcel delivery in Switzerland with ImagineCargo’s start-up mentality, the partnership is expected to make last-mile delivery even more flexible and equally add value for people and the environment.
DPD is not charging any additional cost for green deliveries and is financing projects for renewable energy and clean energy generation to compensate for unavoidable transport emissions.
ImagineCargo has been increasing customer satisfaction in online trading since 2017 through fast, flexible and clean delivery. The last-mile delivery is always emission-free. While many e-commerce logistics start-ups only focus on the last mile, ImagineCargo handles the entire logistics chain, starting from the distribution centre.
In Switzerland, DPD is one of the leading private express and parcel service providers, with 900 employees and drivers. The company processes over 19 million parcels annually to companies and individuals. In addition to its headquarters in Buchs, a municipality in the Zürich area, the company is represented at eleven other locations in Switzerland.
