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Old 12-08-2008 | 10:34 AM
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From: Former DC8 73 Capt DHLAirways/Astar. Retired
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Originally Posted by FR8K9
Right on!

You guys kicked some serious butt!! You took down the whole dang company!
While I appreciate your admiration, I think that what actually killed it is simple. It is too complicated a deal for either side to be comfortable with from a contractual perspective. Further, once DPWN came out with their statements at the May 28 conference call that they were doing a deal with UPS and "there is no other alternative", US companies as we all saw immediately began going to both UPS and FedEx in droves. No surprise there. Why go with DHL when UPS is really doing all the work? If I were a customer, I'd ditch them too. The market has spoken.