DHL to cut 9,500 US jobs

[daa]

Source: FT.com

DHL’s intra-US express delivery service is to be closed with the loss of 9,500 jobs as Deutsche Post, its parent company, abandons its attempt to compete with FedEx and UPS on their home turf.

The withdrawal from all ground and air domestic deliveries is a radical response by Deutsche Post to the widening losses in DHL’s US express business.


Read more: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9d3baa06-af29-11dd-a4bf-000077b07658.html

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Guess maybe there should not have been opposition to UPS taking on some of those jobs with a contract.

[Crazy Dave]

1. They suck

Here in my town they don't even have DHL employees. They hire a contractor, that hires independent contractors and day labor people for minimum wage who can't even find your house after two days of looking.

[kirby]

2. DHL is the worst!

This is probably a highlight of how 'shaky' companies fail when there is a downturn. DHL has horrible service. Their independent contractors, in my experience, are unprofessional and do not normally care if they get the package to you on time or not. Whenever someone or some business ships me something DHL I prepare for delays. Amazon.com started using them in the recent past and my experience was the same, stuff did not always arrive on time. Drivers would claim 'inclement weather' or 'attempted delivery' despite it being a sunny day and me being home the entire day.

I know UPS and FedEx have their problems. I've had occasional problems with both, but DHL has consistently been bad. Good riddance.

[Crazy Dave]

7. One little DHL dumb-ass told me...

The reason she couldn't find my house the day before was because my address which is in three inch high reflective letters on my mail box which is only 2 ft. off the street, wasn't big enough and they're were not the right size for her to see.

UPS can see them, FedEx can see them, the mailman can see them and the pizza delivery people can see them at night too but not her during the daytime and it was all my fault.

[Auggie]

3. The unemployment dominoes are certainly falling

This should haunt the repukes for a looooong time.

[cufford]

4. UPS too

A close friend works for UPS here in Fresno, CA. He was informed late last week that they are laying off 50 drivers from his local terminal and that as such, he and 49 other employees who are further down the ladder will be laid off. And, for the first time ever, UPS here is not going to be hiring seasonal help for the holiday season.

Shipping volumes are way down in this country. Nobody has money to buy anything.

This is part of the domino effect of 15+ years of so-called "Free Trade" that resulted in the loss of tens of millions of living wage jobs in the U.S. Now the downward spiral is accelerating as more and more people get laid off, more and more retail sales are not happening, resulting in more and more businesses laying off more and more people...and on and on it goes.

This is the tip of the iceberg only and nothing can stop it. It's taken 15+ years of "significant" job losses in this country to get us to where we are today, and the so-called "mortgage crisis" and "credit crisis" are but the result of this, not the cause of it.

The only way to fix things is to bring living wage jobs back to this country. I don't see any serious discussion of that. Even a new "energy" industry in this country doesn't mean those jobs will be better than minimum wage. In fact, you can bet that's all they will be.

We ain't seen nothing yet, and there's no hope in sight.

When UPS is not only laying off employees during the holiday retail season, but NOT hiring temporary seasonal help, you know something is seriously wrong in this country.

[Crazy Dave]

6. When manufacturers started thinking it would be great to send jobs overseas

They still thought the people they laid off would still by their products. It's been about fifteen years or maybe a little more that 60 minutes did a segment on the automobile industry when it started laying tens of thousands of Americans off and started building new plants in Mexico. They lost tens of thousands in future vehicle purchases from their own employees and back then 60 minutes and a few of Ford's executives said that the cheaper labor costs only gave Ford a net savings per vehicle of less than 4% but despite future loss of sales in the millions their greed figured that the short term and small increase in profit was worth it. So followed the rest of the manufacturing world and the tech industry, laying off people totaling in the millions and weakening consumer demand and purchasing base here in the US.

[uppityperson]

5. That's too bad, they have given me excellent service, compared to UPS

Stuff arrives in much better shape than if UPS'd, in general. bad about more jobs being lost also

[kirby]

8. Clinton County, Ohio - McCain 64.5% Obama 33.58%

That is the county where Wilmington, OH is. It is in the news this morning about being devastated due to DHL job loss.