La Poste to invest 30M Euro in new platform

French postal service operator La Poste has announced plans to invest 30m euros in the construction of a new national, state of the art industrial platform in the northern city of Lille. The platform is part of La Poste’s 3.4bn-euro 2004-2010 program to transform its French industrial equipment in the context of the liberalization of the French postal services sector. The new platform will be equipped with the latest technology, and be able to sort more than 400,000 letters per hour. It will commence operation in 2007.”