The purchase doubles the size of Donnelley Logistics, the nation's leading distributor of catalogs, magazines, books and direct mail. This investment will advance R.R. Donnelley's strategy of speeding growth in high-value businesses. Donnelley Logistics and CTC executives indicated customers would immediately benefit from the combination. Combining our operations and technology expertise and our proven track record of on-time delivery with CTC's delivery network of thousands of local post offices is a home run. From its 18 facilities nationwide, CTC Distribution Direct currently services more than 300 clients, including America Online, Chadwick's of Boston, Home Shopping Network, J.C. Whitney and Miles Kimball.
Scale is critical to delivering both mail and parcels.
We will move more than 40 percent of the parcel volume of the U.S. Postal Service and 15 percent of the nation's commercial mail. Our combined scale will benefit our customers by giving them predictable and more economic delivery. The acquisition is expected to close within the month. Under terms of the agreement, John Clark and the CTC management team will continue to play a key leadership role in the new organization. The company offers a full range of integrated service solutions to help publishers, merchandisers, financial and healthcare companies deliver communications to their customers.