(tb) Official logistics partner of Formula 1, the Formula E and World Endurance Championship is the Deutsche Post for several years now. It has now also entered into a partnership with the FIA, the world motorsport governing body. Among other things, it will now transport the FIA's mobile offices, garages, and the signaling systems installed at the racetracks. At least in Europe, DHL uses trucks powered by fuel derived from vegetable oil.

(tb) Three-quarters of Germans are happy to receive greetings from holidaymakers via postcards. This was the result of a representative survey by the opinion research institute Forsa on behalf of the German Post69 percent of respondents also stated that they find a postcard more personal than a digitally sent greeting. Two-thirds particularly appreciate the fact that postcards can be kept and, for example, pinned to the refrigerator. Women are more pleased with greeting cards than men, the pollsters found.

In 2024, most greeting cards sent in Germany went to the United States, Austria, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. In Germany, most greeting cards arrived from Austria, followed by holidaymakers in Italy, Spain, France, and Switzerland.

(tb) Almost 36.600 counterfeit banknotes have been Deutsche Bundesbank were withdrawn from circulation in the first six months of the current year. This represents an increase of eight percent compared to the second half of 2024. However, the threat to the population remains manageable. This means that there are nine counterfeit banknotes per 10.000 inhabitants. The total value of the counterfeit notes seized was almost 2,1 million euros.

(tb) In mid-July DHL Express with the construction of a new transshipment center in Cologne-Marsdorf. It is located approximately ten kilometers from the existing location, whose capacity is no longer sufficient. The new sorting facility can process up to 6000 shipments per hour. The hall itself has twelve gates for loading and unloading trucks. Adjacent to it are three elongated buildings, known as pick-up and delivery terminals, each with 26 gates, for a total of 78, for loading and unloading vans.

A total of 5500 square meters of warehouse and office space are available. The sustainability goals of the German Post The department responsible for express delivery is pursuing this goal with a large photovoltaic system for power supply and a heat pump for heating and cooling.

(tb) By the end of the year, the Deutsche Post its fleet of electric vans from Ford. It will take delivery of 2400 new vehicles over the course of the year, meaning that it will then have 4900 electric Fords in its fleet. In doing so, it will be using the classic Ford E Transit also the E-Transit Custom with a smaller payload. The former typically operates in parcel delivery services, the latter in combined delivery. Deutsche Post will be using a total of around 35.000 electric delivery vehicles by the end of the year.