DHL accounts are Net 15 but with snail mail they tend to get the check around Net 20. DHL now has a new policy, if you are just 1 day late they are putting you into collections. The reason given is that with the shut down of its' US operations they are trying to force their customers to get current. My recommendation to everyone is BAIL OUT now! Try Fed X, UPS or any other carrier.

Bling Bling ghetto temp drivers used to throw my packages on the front step. I am glad they are going out of business. A UPS manager went out in his own car to get me a package off a drivers truck and hand delivered it to me in a critical situation. UPS Rocks!!! You get what you pay for in life.

Not only was DHL poorly run, but they hardly gave the US Domestic business a chance to mature before they pulled the plug. Not only will your shipping prices rise (with USPS in bed with FedEx) because there are really only two freight providers, they are leaving in their wake the livelihood of over 14,500 folks across the country. Not only are ground personnel effected but it is going to shutter 2 airlines(ABX and Astar), and adversly effect all the subcontractors that service them in Ohio and else ware. If I was a DHL customer I would find other means to move my freight ASAP. The aircrews may feel they are about the get the shaft pay wise and stop flying "on time"

The only problem with USPS as a competitor is that it is such a poor performer there isn't much competitive pressure.

Their 'next day' package commitment area is laughable- UPS and Fedex cover most of the entire country- even 50 miles from their nearest stations, but the USPS can't cover much of the US with their commitment.

USPS package 'tracking' is a joke. Usually a next day air package will show nothing until AFTER delivery.

USPS refunds are typical governmental hassle... go to your post office?!?! Are you kidding me? I call FedEx and the credit is on my account in a day...uSPS will be 6-8 weeks of 'investigation'.

And then, after all of this, the USPS employees fall back on "Sir, do you realize that the Postal Service moves XXX million items every day?".... Yes I do, which is why the USPS will never be a real competitor to a high value expedited package service.

Clark,check out the latest Consumer Reports. USPS provides comparalbe service to FedEx and UPS at a cheaper cost. Sometimes, much cheaper.

I'm sure in your show notes that you meant to say USPS in the last paragraph. And I support that. My local post office even has a self service machine that you can process packages and other mail at all hours of the day and NOT have to wait in long lines during normal business hours. You should try this, Clark.

I really hate how Clark always bad mouths the Postal Service. I am a faithful listener daily, while delivering my route. I have learned so much from listening to your show. Perhaps you should check the rates at USPS and stop talking about people who are working and making an honest living. We have bad just like any company, but for the most part we are a great group of employees. While I am at it, stop telling people to not raise their flags, instead tell them to take their mail to a collection box. We do not stop if the flag is not raised when you have no mail that day.

In several different states (Washington, Idaho, Colorado, Texas) I had to deal with DHL for extended periods of time for both business purposes and also for domestic phone or internet orders. I have to say their service was terrible in every region. I never had a package delivered on the date and time promised, and I probably have received at least several hundred packages from them. On a regular basis they would 'lose' packages (that got inexplicably shipped back to the source), be late on packages, their package tracking was slow to nonexistant, and on several different occasions I had to drive 70 miles to pick up a package that had been overnighted from the factory and was urgently needed at the promised time, because they supposedly 'tried' to deliver it, but finding the gate to the business park wasn't open, they turned around, instead of doing what UPS and Fedex did, which was to park and walk 15 feet to a door to ask someone in the office there to open the gate. It doesn't surprise me at all that DHL is losing business. They're by far the most unprofessional shipping company I've worked with. I agree with Clark that it's bad to not have competition, but honestly, I have always avoided DHL like the plague. I've even chosen to not purchase items online because the DHL was the shipping company.