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.

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.

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.

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

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 Express is a division of the German logistics company Deutsche Post providing international express mail services.

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.

* Encouraged more than 100 companies to end their involvement in Burma, including: DHL, Swiss Re, Aon Corporation, Rolls-Royce, British American Tobacco, and Premier Oil

In October 2006 it was announced that DHL would be acquiring a 49 % stake in Polar, with that deal now finalised.

In a long-running dispute in the United States involving the valuation of the DHL trade mark of DHL Corporation, it was reported that experts employed by the IRS surveyed a wide range of businesses and found a broad range of royalties for trade mark use from a low of 0. 7 % to a high of 15 %.

However, DHL was never able to overcome FedEx's head start, capturing only 6 % of the domestic market.

In October, Cathay Pacific entered into a joint venture with DHL Worldwide Express ( DHL ), eventually saw DHL took a 40 % stake in the cargo airline, while Cathay Pacific retained the other 60 % holdings.

The Courier industry in the United States is a $ 59 billion industry, with 86 % of the business shared by only four companies, including DHL, FedEx and UPS.

In 2007 DHL Express bought 49. 5 % of nonvoting and 24. 5 % of voting stock and added a member to the board of ASTAR Air Cargo.

* DHL ( a postal service owned by Germany's Deutsche Post alongside Thomas Gottschalk )

It is now part of DHL Aviation and owned by Deutsche Post DHL.

The airline is wholly owned by Deutsche Post DHL and operates the group's DHL-branded parcel and express services in Europe.

In 2002, Deutsche Post completed the takeover of DHL, making EAT a wholly owned subsidiary.

It is wholly owned by Deutsche Post DHL and provides services on the group's DHL-branded parcel and express network in Europe.

It is owned by Jose Henrique D ' Apollo ( 51 %) and DHL ( 49 %).

* A Russian Tupolev Tu-154 airliner and a Boeing 757 operated by DHL collide at 35, 000 ft over Uberlingen, due to failure of correct communication from ground-to-air.

Notable are those operated by Shell, Basis Bay, NTT MSC, BMW and DHL.

The DHL facility commenced operations in October 2005 ( previously expected to be running by March 2005 ).

The Moreno Valley and Perris region recovered from two economic slumps each in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, especially after the closure and reassignment of March Joint Air Reserve Base and the usage of the airfield by DHL corporation for its warehouse distribution center.

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

It was acquired by DHL in 2003.

* August 14, 2003-Airborne shareholders approved the acquisition of Airborne, Inc. by DHL of Brussels, Belgium.

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

DHL aggressively expanded to countries that could not be served by any other delivery service, including the Soviet Union, Eastern Bloc, Iraq, Iran, China, Vietnam and North Korea.

Old DHL logo before its purchase by Deutsche Post AG

DHL may also have been reluctant to invest in the US market during the 1990s due to numerous lawsuits involving the company in the US courts, instituted by South Pacific Islanders claiming paternity of children by Larry Hillblom, who had died in an air crash over the Pacific Ocean, his body never recovered.

All US domestic flights were handled by DHL Airways, Inc. which in 2003 was renamed ASTAR Air Cargo.

The new DHL was launched by merging the old DHL, Danzas and Securicor Omega Euro Express.