New parcel processing system in La Poste

French national post office La Poste will invest some 25 mln euro (USD31.7 mln) in a new parcel processing system in the Loir-et-Cher region in north-central France, it was reported on September 15, 2006.
The platform, which will be operational in April 2007 will employ about 220 people. It will cover an area of 26,000 sq m and will process about 200,000 parcels a day.
The company also reminded that it had invested some 80 mln euro (USD101.3 mln) in the renovation of its logistics and mail delivery services in that region in the course of 2005 and 2006.