Deutsche Post loses court case concerning postal charges against Citicorp Card Operations

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung has reported that “a court in Hanover has ruled against Deutsche Post AG, the German post office, in a legal dispute concerning postage charges amounting to DM6.3m. The court dismissed Deutsche Post’s claim against Citicorp Card Operations GmbH, which in 1995 and 1996 sent out mail to customers in Germany via the Dutch post office, so as to avoid the higher postage charges imposed by Deutsche Post. The court ruled that Deutsche Post would have been entitled to send the letters back to the Netherlands, but had no right to claim compensation having delivered the letters.”