Swiss Post to sell newspapers, magazines in 30 trial offices
Swiss postal operator Die Post will start a pilot project to sell newspapers and magazines in 30 post offices on June 13, 2005.
Overall 50 domestic and foreign titles will be offered for six months in the post offices, Die Post said on May 27, 2005. If the results from the trial are positive, the project will be expanded to include 1,000 post offices.
The bulk of trial post offices will be in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, including offices in Aarau, Bern, Chur, Lucerne, Solothurn, Zug, Winterthur and Zurich.
Die Post did not state when the project will be introduced in the French-speaking cantons.
The company said papers and magazines were post-related goods and represented a reasonable supplement to its core activities.
