Originally Posted by
hvydriver
We are going to have to agree to disagree Jungle. With DHL giving up control of the delivery of its product in the US, there are indeed actual anti-trust concerns here. Just because you don't see it, doesn't make it so. As Penguin said, the money shell game has been going on with DPWN/DHL for many years now. Our hope is that these hearings will flush these things into the open. Interesting that UPS spent big dollars lobbying for the DHL/UPS deal to happen:
UPS spent more than $1.3M lobbying in 2Q - Forbes.com
The Forbes article you refer to lists many thing UPS lobbying efforts were devoted to, not just DHL. There may be actual anti-trust concerns, but it is sure bet that whatever concerns there may be, DHL won't continue their relationship with ABX/Astar.
One of the foremost problems this country has is that our corporate taxes are the second highest in the world, second only to Japan. The health and well-being of our economy lies in attracting and keeping profitable business in this country. The red herring of anti-trust really won't matter in the end, and DHL will act as it chooses to maintain it's economic health.
It is easy to say that a master plan of conspiracy has been in the works for years, but when you start looking underneath the rocks all you will find is mismanagement and the natural course of more competitive companies eliminating the less competitive.