(tb) Oscar de Bok has been the new CEO of DHL Global Forwarding Freight , the freight forwarding division of the Deutsche Post Group, since August 16. He succeeds Tim Schwarwath, who retired. De Bok previously headed DHL Supply Chain , the group's division responsible for supply chain management. That position was taken over by Hendrik Venter, most recently the manager responsible for Continental Europe, the Middle East, and Africa at DHL Supply Chain. Venter's promotion also brings him to the Group's Executive Board.

(tb) Markus Voss is joining the board of the freight forwarding division of the Deutsche Post Group. At DHL Global Forwarding Freight, he will be responsible for traditional land transport. Previously, he was head of development at DHL Supply Chain, the division responsible for supply chain management . Voss succeeds Uwe Brinks, who led the division for nine years.

(tb) At the end of July, DHL Freight opened a new transshipment center in Graben near Augsburg. It replaces the previously operating facility in Affing. The division of the group responsible for road transport used a site that had previously been occupied by the Post & Parcel Germany division.

The 6200-square-meter transshipment hall has 48 loading bays and, as is now standard practice for new Deutsche Post buildings , is designed to be energy-efficient. Only the photovoltaic system still needs to be installed. Approximately 40 employees work directly in the transshipment center, which has 360 square meters of office space.

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

(tb) Three-quarters of Germans are pleased to receive greetings from tourists via postcard. This was the result of a representative survey conducted by the Forsa opinion research institute on behalf of Deutsche Post . Sixty-nine percent of respondents also stated that they find a postcard more personal than a digitally sent greeting. Two-thirds particularly appreciate that postcards can be kept and, for example, stuck to the refrigerator. The pollsters found that women are more pleased to receive greeting cards than men.

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.