Post Tower, headquarters of Deutsche Post / DHL Express | DHL.

The legal monopoly of the government-owned United States Postal Service has narrowed during the 20th and 21st centuries, although the USPS, through whose hands passes 40 % of the world's mail, still delivers more mail in four days than is delivered by DHL Express, FedEx, and the United Parcel Service in one year.

The airport has aligned itself as the Air Cargo Hub of the Rio Grande Valley and works closely with carriers such as UPS, DHL, FedEx, BAX Global, Continental Express Cargo, and Southwest Airlines Cargo.

* Larry Hillblom, co-founder of DHL Worldwide Express and progenitor.

DHL said its DHL Express will continue to operate between the United States and other nations.

In 2004 New Zealand Post announced the formation of Express Couriers Ltd ( ECL ), a 50: 50 joint venture with DHL.

It is now used by DHL Express and Tasman Cargo Airlines as an office building.

For instance, it mentions some new services from the DHL Express as well as the musical contest launched by McDonald's.

Deutsche Post then effectively absorbed DHL into its Express division, while expanding the use of the DHL brand to other Deutsche Post divisions, business units and subsidiaries.

Today, DHL Express shares its well-known DHL brand with other Deutsche Post business units, such as DHL Global Forwarding and DHL Supply Chain.

The DHL Express Service has ceased domestic operations in the United States of America, as of February 2009.

Following the completion of the purchase in 2002, Deutsche Post effectively absorbed DHL into its Express division, while expanding the use of the DHL brand to other Deutsche Post divisions, business units and subsidiaries.

Today, DHL Express shares its well-known DHL brand with other Deutsche Post business units, such as DHL Global Forwarding, DHL Freight, DHL Supply Chain, and DHL Global Mail.

This is mainly because the company is using a private shipping company like UPS, FedEx, or DHL for its shipping.

* 2006 – The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.

EAT is a subsidiary of DHL Aviation, one of the world's largest cargo airline companies.

ABX Air is a contract freight forwarding business with the primary customer being DHL, one of the world's largest international shipping firms.

DHL is 100 % owned by Deutsche Post World Net.

* November 10, 2008-Global delivery company DHL announced that it is cutting 9, 500 jobs as it discontinues air and ground operations within the United States.

However after an industrial dispute with their drivers in the 1970s, and with the intention of streamlining and consolidation, much of the distribution is now contracted out – to distribution specialists such as TDG, DHL, NFT & Wincanton.

Frutiger is also used by DHL Globally and by DPWN Deutsche Post in Germany.

In the United States, the service offered is generally on-site, whilst in the rest of the world it typically involves collection of the notebook by a courier, often DHL, for servicing in a Sony repair center.

* November 22: 2003 Baghdad DHL attempted shootdown incident: An Airbus A-300 freighter belonging to German courier firm DHL is forced to make an emergency landing with an engine fire, after being struck by a portable shoulder-fired SA-14 missile.

It is also the hub for privately owned Juneyao Airlines and Spring Airlines, and an Asian-Pacific cargo hub for UPS and DHL.

The DHL hub, opened in July 2012, is said to be the biggest express hub in Asia.

DHL is a world market leader in sea and air mail.

* 10 November 2008: DHL announces that it is cutting 9, 500 jobs as it discontinues domestic air and ground operations within the United States to deal with economic uncertainty.

It is retaining international services, and is still in talks with UPS to transport DHL packages between U. S. airports.

* 30 January 2009 DHL ends domestic pick up and delivery service in the United States, effectively leaving UPS and FedEx as the two major express parcel delivery companies in the United States Limited domestic service is still available from DHL, provided that the packages are tendered to USPS for local delivery.

DHL said in a statement, " We have not been able to come to a conclusive agreement that is acceptable to both parties.

When integrating Exel into its Logistics division, it added its well-known DHL brand acquired with the purchase of DHL Express to form the name DHL Exel Supply Chain.

It was changed over to the DHL umbrella brand when it was temporarily assigned to the Express division.

The Express division transports courier, express and parcel shipments all over the world, combining air and ground transport, under the DHL brand.

The Forwarding / Freight division carries goods by rail, road, air and sea under the DHL brand.

* 2002 – A Bashkirian Airlines ( flight 2937 ) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL ( German cargo ) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.

Owned by the Deutsche Post WorldNet, a German holding company, DHL consolidated its US flight and sorting hub operations in Wilmington in 2005.

Other logistics operators include DHL, UPS and FedEx.

DHL will be responsible for providing logistics services for over 500, 000 products to support 600 hospitals and other health providers in England.

For the 2011-2012 Volvooceanrace DHL is one of four race partners providing logistics for this worldwide event.

* DHL: The DHL brand is used as an umbrella brand for all logistics and parcel services.

Beginning in the 1960s, Rodgau opened up six major industrial parks with a combined area of 219 ha in which settled mainly service businesses such as the IBM product distribution centre ( until 2005, thereafter Mann-Mobilia logistics centre ), the firm Atlas Rhein Main, the FEGRO wholesale market, MEWA Textilservice, GEODIS, Pepsi-Cola Deutschland, PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences and a DHL postal freight centre.