I once arranged an overnight shipment via DHL 4 days in advance of the my deadline delivery date. It took DHL 5 days to make the delivery, with a different story each day about where the package was and when it would arrive. Never again. maxdanger
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM, Lee Stewart <[email protected]>wrote: > As one from Colorado.... I loved DHL -- but only back before it merged > with Airborne. They were almost exclusively for overseas stuff, but you > could reliably send and receive overnight stuff to almost anywhere in the > world.... > > Then came Airborne, which was bad service to start with. And what I refer > to as "domestic DHL" was terrible. And to top it off, the overseas > delivery became terrible too... It's like DHL was great, but picked up the > worst things from Airborne -- and there was a lot of worst to pick up... > > And it wasn't just laptops... I remember one time ordering an emergency > fix tape from IBM. The tape was created at IBM Boulder, sent overnight by > Airborne to a company in Pueblo CO (~150 miles south). Airbornes version of > that was to overnight it (through their hub, whereever that was) to Colorado > springs (about 1/2 way there), then drop it in first class mail to the > Pueblo company.... > > DHL overseas is almost back to what they were before Airborne... > > Lee / Colorado... > > On 2/9/2010 2:56 PM, L R authored this: > > Wow! We sorely hated DHL out west in Utah, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, >>> and >>> New Mexico. >>> >>> >>> >> Amen to that, Ray. >> >> Linda / New Mexico >> _______________________________________________ >> Thinkpad mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad >> >> >> > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *Lee Stewart* > > > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
