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DELIVERY COMPANY DPD Ireland is to create 700 new permanent jobs within its distribution network in Ireland.
The jobs, 150 of which will be based in Athlone and 550 of which will be based around the country, will be created between now and the end of the year.
DPD Ireland’s chief executive Des Travers told reporters this afternoon that the announcement follows a strong year for the company despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
Announcing the new jobs, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said the delivery sector was one part of the economy that would grow as the country recovers from the crisis.
“The news that 700 permanent jobs are going to be created all over the country between now and the end of the year is a real boost to the economy and a real vote of confidence in the future,” Varadkar said.
“And I think it gives people a lot of hope that we can bounce back from this and we can make a full economic recovery in time.”
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That’s me with all my Amazon orders
@Louise Tracey: driving the van in the photo?
@Louise Tracey: amazon goes through an Post
@conor talbot: Sometimes Amazon deliver through the post but, unfortunately, it’s been DPD, DHL or Fastway a lot this year for me.
@G: an post have the contract for 80% of all amazon parcels, DPD have the rest, I work there,
At least DPD drivers can work google maps & get the job done unlike fastway gimps
@Sandra Molloy: I have no problem with Fastaway once they know your Eircode.
@Aine O Connor: My Wife had an issue with Fastway saying they didn’t have the eircode and dropping stuff off at the post office. She was pregnant at the time and we wad a big row with them but they eventually backed down and now every package is dropped to the house without question. The driver even told us at one stage that he was a contractor and not obliged to drop packages at the house. Think that his contract holder set him straight eventually, bit awkward now but well worth the argument haha
@Aine O Connor: I had an issue with a company this week who claimed they could not locate me as I had not supplied my eircode at purchase. The item which was to be delivered on Thursday last eventually arrived on Tuesday, and guess what, it DID have the eircode – despite two agents telling me that it did not. Matter ongoing
“strong year despite the pandemic”
It’s the pandemic creating these jobs in this sector.
Good news for DPD but our local shops are being crucified with online shopping. Please shop local as much as possible and keep our local economy going. Amazon won’t sponsor the local GAA, Soccer or Rugby Club and they won’t donate to the local charities like St Vincent dePaul either.
@Mary Glancy: you can still shop locally online. I’ve bought lots of things over the past few months online from Irish businesses
Leo gets his head in everywhere. He probably leaked the news before DPD announced it
@Emmett Currie: #leotheleak is trending on twitter.apparantly he leaked parts of the budget something junior minister Phil Hogan had to resign over 20 years ago.the Irish media must have Leo JFK and the pope up on the wall side by side.the prodical son
@Colonel kurtz: the budget is leaked every year it’s nothing new
@Emmett Currie: Leo is going to do 3 hours a week delivering for dpd during these difficult times, sure if he can get the stethoscope out he can dust of the driving license
@Sam Harms: Is it really, on social media by the Tánaiste minutes before its announced… Think your wrong…
@MickN: pretty much everything in the budget was in the papers for days before the budget speech.
@Sam Harms: “Gabriel Makhlouf’s appointment as Governor, which commands a salary of €260,000 a year, has been shrouded in controversy after he was severely criticised for his handling of a budget leak in New Zealand.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has demanded that the incoming Central Bank governor should make a statement on the controversy of his handling of the budget leak.”
But #LeoTheLeak goes after others for doing it ..
They can expect to get 100,000 people applying the way things are going !
It probably shows that the brick and mortar shops are dying a slow death with rents,rates,insurance and wages.companies that have huge warehousing style depot and a good app to shop on is the way forward
@Colonel kurtz: or because people just don’t want to stand in a busy shop at the moment. That and the fact that people are moving out of cities. Smaller towns don’t have the “high street retailer” presence
@thomas patrick: very few people have moved out of the cities.
Was in Dublin City centre yesterday, was packed and it took me normal amount of time to drive in i.e. rush hour traffic was as it used to be!
There was a time when the Mobile Bank parked in every village in Ireland for people to do their business. One Mobile Bank of Ireland used to blow the horn outside our house for my husband to cash his pay cheque.
Messengers boys delivered groceries on bikes .
Vans called around to remote houses with a selection of groceries and bits and pieces. There were bread vans, coal lorries , milk carts. Clothes shops allowed people to take up up to six outfits on approval , a van would deliver the selection , you would invite your friends for their opinion and the following morning the van would collect the clothes , no obligation to buy.
We now have online shopping . In the past schoolchildren would hand in lists to shops on their way to school . Every generation will find a solution.
Great to get a bit of good news. The way we consume things has changed forever. Better if we can have one van delivering 100s of orders in a day rather than 100s of cars clogging up roads and killing the environment for individual items
In fairness I have been using DPD for quite some time now.
Great and really courteous drivers that will go out of their way to accommodate customers.
Well done and please don’t loose that personal touch.
I’ve had them deliver a lot of stuff to work recently, always polite and a pleasure to do business with.
They have no hope of getting drivers. Treated like dirt a euro a drop and silly hours it’s how the industry has gone
Nightline sold its soul to UPS. Forgot about the customer. Now DPD are collecting those forgotten customers.
@space invader: have you ever sent anything with nightline? Packages were the most expensive with them (if you ignore ups,dhl,fedex)while anyone else was cheaper for same size and weight. Dpd is not collecting lost customers but thenines which wouldn’t use Nightline in the 1st place so there is no loss.
Hopefully they can put fastway out of business, worst company iv ever delt with, excluding eir
@denis daly: It must have been bad off you equate them with Eir. Wrist customer service ever
@denis daly: I’ve never had a reason to complain about Fastway. The drivers are very polite and make sure to shut my gate as they leave, unlike An Post.
What’s the betting they deliver the jobs late next year instead of this year?
More bike lanes to be blocked up so.
You can be sure they are better at delivering than #LeoTheLeak
Anyone know what a DPD delivery driver makes?
@Cupid Stunt: €1 a delivery if you bring 100 deliveries out with you, its obvious €100 and if you deliver 10 parcels to the one address its still €1. Also your actually self employed so technically its only 77cent a delivery after tax.
ENJOY.
@PMG: thanks for that… Reviews from workers on indeed do not bode well… 15 hour days eating on the wheel, zero support from management.
Could be 7000 and still won’t be enough for this Christmas
Maybe the new recruits might actually “attempt” to deliver your package or deliver your package to your actual address
I hope some of the much-needed jobs come to their Depot in Kildare town.
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