DHL Shipping Company Closing Centers

BREAKING: DHL Shipping company closing major centers, and is using the US Mail to deliver packages in their system. How widespread or number of closings not determined. However, according to DHL vendor, thousands of zip codes....so far.

THAT is a very good question. My Son in Law is a gun guy and purchases antique things, loading supplies etc, I asked him about that and he told me that the US post office can not be used but that UPS/DHL is fine and legal.

Does this practice (1) leave the shipper or the person receiving the goods liable for criminal prosecution? Or both?

One last follow up. The DHL Corp office visited the article page via a link from this thread. Still no contact from them.......So to the DHL corp guys watching this thread and article....please do contact me, I would be happy to put your reaction up. In addition, several posters here have some interesting questions I would like to ask you about.

On another note....the area I am in had...had....a full staff and trucks here. Eureka Ca is a town of about 30,000 and services another 20,000 or so on the outskirts, including a State University. If DSL is not able to deliver anymore to communities of 50,000......there are indeed questions......lots of them.

As a current DHL employee, and a near 20 year DHL employee, I can tell you that the DHL@home service will be discontinued on Sept. 1, 2008 because it is not a money maker for us. On my route I have a Post Office, a large one, in a main city, and for all of the post offices that our station handles we have material coming in every day and we deliver it to the post offices every day. Lately for me it is approx. 60 - 240 pieces a day. Christmas time is another story, lots more. On Mon., Wed., and Fri. we pick up from the post offices the rejected or sent back packages that customers want to return. I cannot say what happens at other stations or independent contractors stations in the middle of nowhere (obviously it’s somewhere for the people that live there) but you know what I mean. We do have additional day(s) transit times for outlying areas of course in which it is only sensible to have the post offices do the delivering to. Residential stops are very time consuming, DHL wanted to keep us mostly on main roads to do businesses. We do still p/u and deliver to residences of course. I’m not totally trying to defend my employer, seeing as I’ve been screwed plenty in the past and present ( I may be looking forward to a layoff soon... ) but there are DHL employees that are dedicated, and really care about the image they portray and the service they provide. But, if the whole operation is not on the same page, it just falls apart...

I knew two DHL people....great guys, I was pulling for them myself. What I personally don’t like is a sneaky company. According to the shippers, DHL knew well in advance the packages they were picking up would not be delivered in the four days they quoted them and it would be a good two weeks. All tacking lost as well. But rather than let everyone know, they take the packages and smile.....screw the customer....make the sale.

It might be good business in the short term, but as you can see, things are changing. This type of behavior can not happen in the dark anymore. I can say this with certanity. When I am ordering things on line in the future, I will be paying much more attention to how and by who my order is being shipped. There is no substitute for being honest and up front with people, and that applies to businesses. Once the trust is gone.....good luck staying in business.

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