Completely agree, but that isn’t what this article is about. The issue here is the sudden closing of thousands of zip codes.....thousands, who knows how many more. In my case, packages sat in fresno for about five days before they even drove them over to the post office. Or at least that is the story DHL is apparently telling their vendors.
If people are going to use DHL they should be aware they might be using the US mail on half the trip, doubling the transit time. Apparently the SOP now is trucks dupm packages in a center and they sit until someone sorts it and decides to take them to the post office.....IMO UPS stock looks pretty good right now.
I just got some info...
DHL worker unions are wildcat striking as we speak, this has been going on since the morning of June 29th,
DHL announced 2600ish layoffs but the real number is over 10,000
http://www.aircargoworld.com/regions/northam_0708.htm
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“If DHL does everything they’ve indicated, the end result is a loss of around 7,000 jobs in Wilmington,” ABX Air President John Graber Graber said. “We [ABX Air] would directly lose 6,000 positions.”
DHL also owns the Wilmington airport, the largest privately owned airport in the country. Jonathan Baker, director of public relations for DHL said the Wilmington air sort hub would be closed once the company ends its relationship with ABX Air and ASTAR.
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...