DPWN John Mullen on DHL problems, globalization

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It's hard to keep up with. Basically what the Germans bought, in lack of better terms was a franchise. It would take a scholar to assemble all the pieces of DHL Worldwide. Just ask Hvydriver who did alot of research for the union pertaining to who actually owned DHL Airways, Inc.

So, in your opinion as a long time DHL employee, has DPWN been running DHL like DHL was run, like they ran their monopoly postal product or something in between? I only ask because they bought a turn-key operation (shout out to the one who uses this term daily....you know who you are ) in Airborne and screwed all the customers away. Just wondering if that arrogance is from which product or just from Mullen himself.

EDIT: Got to go pick my boy up...Thanks for the info and I'll get back to this discussion later.

 

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So, in your opinion as a long time DHL employee, has DPWN been running DHL like DHL was run, like they ran their monopoly postal product or something in between? I only ask because they bought a turn-key operation (shout out to the one who uses this term daily....you know who you are ) in Airborne and screwed all the customers away. Just wondering if that arrogance is from which product or just from Mullen himself.

EDIT: Got to go pick my boy up...Thanks for the info and I'll get back to this discussion later.

Before the Germans bought DHL it was a good company, a bit quirky but a good company. Their focus was on international freight and "low volume/high yield" customers. They have always made money on the international market and in the US made money, just nothing earth shattering. They never really wanted to compete with Brown and Purple in the US, but focused using a term we always hated ,"niche market".

DPWN has hosed this operation big time.