DHL plans to open another 38 SERVICEPOINT locations across Japan on March 15th, bringing the total number of DHL SERVICEPOINTS in the country to 175.
The expansion will be carried out through subcontractor Greight, Inc., which does business under the Hankoyasan21 brand.
DHL set up SERVICEPOINTS at 27 Hankoyasan21 stores in December 2009, and through this new agreement will offer customers access to DHL services at 65 of the 300 Hankoyasan21 stores in Japan.
The new SERVICEPOINTS will accept shipments from DHL account holders as well as from general customers using DHL EXPRESS EASY, which enables users to more accurately forecast shipping expenses since the fee scale is based on destination zone (Asia Pacific, America or Europe/other) rather than a weight-based system that is influenced by fluctuating jet fuel surcharges.
Among the eleven prefectures where SERVICEPOINTS will be newly opened, six (Yamagata, Nara, Tottori, Ehime, Tokushima and Saga) will be getting their first drop-off centres. Notably, DHL will now have drop-off centres in seventeen of Japan's eighteen largest cities, expanding the company's presence in the Hokkaido, Sanyo, Kanto, and Chukyo regions.
