West Mail

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West Mail was a private postal service in western Germany, which was founded after the loosening of the letter monopoly in Germany by the Cologne publisher M. DuMont Schauberg , the publishers of the Rheinische Post and the Westdeutsche Zeitung from Düsseldorf , Krefeld and Wuppertal . It was based in Langenfeld and began its postal service on April 1, 2005. After the company went bankrupt in February 2008, operations were suspended again on March 1, 2008.

As PIN West Mail , West Mail belonged to the PIN Group since the end of 2006 . Its shareholder, Axel Springer AG , stopped providing financial support to the new subsidiary at the end of 2007, which was followed by insolvency shortly afterwards.

West Mail's delivery area essentially comprised the Rhineland and the Bergisches Land (zip code regions 40–42, 46, 47, 50–53). It was in direct competition with First Mail , which had been taken over by Deutsche Post AG in 2003 and which delivers in large parts of the same area.

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  1. ↑ a b PIN Group takes over CITIPOST and WESTMAIL. At Posttip.de , July 18, 2006, accessed on November 8, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b c Axel Granzow: One of the largest Pin daughters closed. In: Handelsblatt , February 29, 2008, accessed on November 8, 2011.
  3. ↑ No more cheap mail service of the Deutsche Post. At Postbranche.de , June 20, 2006, accessed on November 8, 2011.
  4. ^ Deutsche Post: "Espionage" or Market Monitoring? In: Rheinische Post , April 26, 2004, accessed on November 8, 2011.