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GeoPost bought the UK-based Parceline and Ireland's Interlink parcel service in November 2000, for around $277 million. [5] In 2001, GeoPost became the main shareholder of DPD, a company created in 1977 in Aschaffenburg, West Germany (Deutscher Paketdienst until January 2008, then Dynamic Parcel Distribution). [6]
The letter "D" was assigned to designate Dublin [6] and was retained by the new Irish government. [ 5 ] Dublin didn't start using postal district numbers until 1927 [ 7 ] : 371 when the Department of Posts and Telegraphs initiated a scheme that requested senders to add a code to each address in Dublin City and suburbs.
DX (trading as DX and DX Freight) is a British mail, courier and logistics company, with operations throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland based in Datchet, England. [ 1 ] They employ more than 3,000 staff, and their network covers most UK and Ireland business and residential addresses.
The Irish government announced the introduction of a postcode system, Eircode, in Ireland from 2008 [5] though An Post was against the system at the time, saying it was unnecessary. [6] The introduction of Eircodes took place on 13 July 2015, after almost a decade of delays.
The quality of postal services in the 17th and 18th centuries improved with development of better roads and means of transport. [1]Anthony Trollope is credited with major contributions to the development of postal services in the years 1851-1867, described, e.g. in Chapters 8 and 13 of his autobiography.
The company was founded in 2000 by father and son Fil and Richard Adams-Mercer together with colleague Steven Kramer. [4] At that time neither United Parcel Service nor DHL were offering online access to their courier parcel services.
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In 2015, The Daily Telegraph said that with 2,000 self-employed couriers, CitySprint is the "market leader of same-day delivery services" in the UK. [ 12 ] In 2017, CitySprint unsuccessfully fought a tribunal case relating to a single courier, which found that the individual in question was a worker , rather than self-employed. [ 13 ]