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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/10/08

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The only carrier I've ever had more problems with than UPS (Pronounced OOP btw...) is DHL. Nothing like repeatedly receiving packages that looked like they had been shipped via International Trebuchet service. OOPS just has problems w/ "We're sorry, but we had plane problems and your overnight package won't be there for 4 days."
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/10/08

@Lite: Gah! (Prounounced *OOPS btw...)
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BoinK
11/10/08

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Strange to hear so many people having complaints. At the company I work we've been using DHL for a few years now and "never" had a problem. We ship out a few hundred boxes each month and it's very rare that we have a problem. 99.5% of the time it's delivered to our customers the next day. The few times we've had problems where a customer has called us up to ask where their stuff is it's generally already being sorted out by DHL by the time we get in contact with them.
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linuxidiot
11/10/08

@BoinK:

More than likely business accounts are being treated different from people using it for occasionally shipping items. i.e. less money being moved so don't care as much
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/10/08

@linuxidiot: For a good while DHL was licensing their name out to local delivery companies. So the quality of the service would vary a lot depending on the quality of the service with the franchise.
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Maksimir
11/10/08

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I hear Doug Heffernan over at IPS is pretty excited about this.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/10/08

Wow, I just got a work email last week stating we were no longer using DHL.

I guess we were one of those final nails in the coffin...
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
11/10/08

@Maksimir: Didn't he get canned last year?
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strider_mt2k
11/10/08

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GOOD.

I've NEVER had a good DHL experience.

I'm still pretty sure a driver stole a memory card from an order box as well one time.

G'bye! G'bye!
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linuxidiot
11/10/08

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I had more trouble with DHL the few times I had to use them than any other company. They couldn't seem to find a 40-year old address in the middle of Arlington, TX; which I would assume would be in their mapping system by now.

Since they couldn't find it, I had to locate them and go pick it up.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
11/10/08

@linuxidiot: Yeah, I kept running into places where shippers were DBA (Doing Business As) DHL, and they were generally the worst carriers I ever dealt with.
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discounteggroll
11/10/08

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no shit? I liked them in comparison to the other shipping companies.

Gonna give my DHL driver a parting gift, he's pretty chill
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