DHL Consumer Reviews - Page 5

DHL CANADA- DHL CHINA -- DHL AWB # ** (Not delivered in last almost 5 months). Package lost by DHL and DHL making excuses to escape (even not ready to pay the claim or replacement of electronic parts). Oct 30th, 2004, 17:30pm, I sent an urgent package to Canada through DHL in their Shenzhen company, tracking number is **. This package was packed in their front desk, and I paid 497.00rmb (about 60.17USD) right there. Oct 31st, received phone call from DHL being noticed that have to pay the shipping fee again. After telling them that shipping fee has been paid, and then they gave up (ridiculous call with malafide intention).

In the meanwhile, I have checked with the receiver. He said that he has been waiting for this parcel for the whole day and he has called, faxed, emailed DHL to deliver the parcel many times, but he still hasn't seen the DHL delivery person. He didn't receive the parcel, and he didn't sign either. But DHL showed on website that they Attempted Delivery many times, shipment delivered at 8:54, signed by Recipient (complete manipulation). DHL Company finishes working at 18:00pm. How could they deliver at 20:54pm?

Nov. 3rd, I called DHL Shenzhen office, but they still insisted that parcel has been delivered and signed by receiver. Then, I asked for deliver sheet (proof of delivery) with the signature of receiver. Nov 7th, received one fax from DHL Shenzhen office, wrote: "Consignee refuses to sign for shipment due to 2 day wait at home. Manager must be contacted. Mike ** informed. Shipment received in fact by recipient with his wife present." (DHL said they attempted delivery many times recipient not at home, and in this sentence they say recipient waiting at home 2nd day.)

In another email DHL claimed that it was delivered at 10 p.m. with special arrangement. Then, my question is: Why DHL has been claiming that parcel has been delivered and been signed, but they cannot supply the Delivery proof with receiver's signature? Why DHL published on web tracking - shipment delivered and been signed by receiver when receiver didn't get the parcel? After that, I called DHL Shenzhen & Guangzhou office many times, but they made all excuses while trying to escape & indulged in own contradictory statements (lies).

First they said cause receiver refused to accept the parcel the delivery man put the parcel in the front door. Second day they changed and said that they put the parcel on the desk in receiver's house with his wife present. After I checked with the receiver & noticed that DHL never been to their house at all then they said I put 200usd in package (another big fabricated lie) I got mad and told parcel was packed in DHL company by their employee, how could the 200usd come? Then they said they made a mistake that it was another customer.

Finally, another lie DHL said because receiver was upset due to delay, receiver took the parcel and kicked the deliver guy out. My question to DHL is- Was it delay or customer was not available at home or PARCEL LOST? DHL seems to be clueless on this issue AFTER PARCEL STOLEN/LOST. How many mistakes would DHL make? Any express company would give the parcel when receiver refuses signing the delivery sheet?

I have requested China DHL to contact with Canadian DHL many times to arrange meeting with the manager of Canadian DHL, deliver guy and Receiver to solve this matter. But to my astonishment until now, they didn't dare to arrange meeting and have no reply. I made many phone calls, and still calling everyday but they just keep wasting time. I have found out there are many customers who have suffered because of DHL's poor service, frequent loss of package, THEFT OF ITS CONTENTS. I can send you testimonials of dozens of such suffering customers, if you can send me your contacts requesting for details.

Me and my company are facing a big loss, bad business good will, time, energy, cost of product 1000 us$ and freight because of the terrible service of DHL. Also I have suffered mental agony and painful harassment by DHL staff by way of lying, stealing, and making me fool on telephonic conversation and their irresponsible replies. We would never use DHL company again and we hope everybody would be more careful while sending parcel by it.

Express mail, FEDEX, UPS AND TNT are much better and reliable in my experience. I would be forced to take up this matter legally, as well as complain to various consumer forums. DHL ARE ROBBERS AND THIEVES. Would never ever deal with these thieves again.

I ordered my Google Nexus phone on 29 January 2010. I wanted to get the phone before this special date I have. So eagerly I followed the tracking order on DHL. The tracking website for mine is **. As you can see the order was going alright till the last day 5th February 2010. Singapore is a small country so I estimate the package should arrive 1-2 days after it reach Singapore. But after 2 days the package has not arrived. So with advice from my friend I called DHL to inquire about my package. I was told by the operator that there is a problem with the delivery.

On further probing the operator told me that they tried to deliver the package to me but they are unable to reach me. Thinking that they could have my address wrong I double check with him the mailing address. It was correct. The operator assured me that the package should arrive in a day or two.

Being a bit impatient on the second day after waiting till evening, the package still have not arrive and I called DHL again. This time I was told by another operator that there is a problem with my package. I continued to pester for the problem and this time round the operator told me that there is missing content from my package. However when I ask what was missing the operator told me she do not know. But she gave me a number to call which she said was the investigating person of my case.

So the next day I called this person, **. He told me that when the delivery man pick up the package he notice the package to be tampered with and on further inspection and checking the phone was found to be missing and only the phone charger was left behind. On hearing this I asked if this could be a theft case. He said he cannot comment but the phone could have just dropped out (of a closed box?).They are still investigating the case.

The next morning I receive a call from him and he told me they are unable to locate the phone and decide to end the case by refunding back to the shipper. I asked if they plan to just let the matter end like this? He replied "yes". I demanded from him that I want an explanation from them and I will not let the matter rest like this. Then he told me they are actually still investigating (seems like a lie to me). He told me this matter is brought over to a security officer, **.

So I called this security officer and he told me on the 1st instance the package reach Singapore they already found it to be tampered. (This means the 1st time I called the operator was lying to me.) He said this is a one off incident which I highly doubt so given the number of cases I seen online here. He continued to explain to me that DHL being a large company they handle thousands of packages every day, about 40-50k. Hence it is alright for them to lose a package or two. Or in other word is a common thing.

Furthermore, phones are a luxury item that are very tempting to be stolen by couriers (seems like a very good job with bonus.) Finally he assured me that they will refund to the shipper in 7 days and I will make my counter claim there. I am still waiting for a reply here.

Morale of the story: I learn here is DHL hires liars and thief to work for them. If you really want a good job can consider joining DHL as you can take what you like as your bonus and benefit.

BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA -- UPDATE: Monday Dec 22, 2008 - the package arrived and the first thing the woman did wasn't to check the apartment buildings in front of her and as such if I WAS NOT looking out my door at the time - I would have missed her. So my opinion of the company goes from Negative to Neutral, however I am leaving this as a negative experience.

So here I am home, waiting for my package - watching TV in the front room with the door open a bit and with the cable box - when suddenly I hear my small dog bark and I run outside excited hoping I'd get my package. So I see a UPS man delivering a big box to my next door neighbors. We live an apartment and UPS and FedEx doesn't give us any trouble...

After I see him set the package on top of something, he leaves and I look and over the wooden fence see the brown UPS van and so he leaves out the main gate - not locked by the way and no way to. :) It's just a tall black fence with steel bar one can easily open and well going on with the situation.

And this was around 2:30 - 3 pm PST time and so I finally come to check on the status as I get a feeling to do so and then noticed my internet connection which is dialup cut off, I re-dial in and go to the DHL site and lo and behold: "12/19/2008 2:53 pm Consignee premises closed. Will attempt again next business day."

Odd. No one from DHL came at all and remember at around this SAME TIME a UPS man delivered a package just fine to my next door neighbors at around that time frame so I know they could have came and my dog would have barked just as he did with the UPS driver...

I called and got "We will re-deliver on Monday" message from a representative - ugh! :( And she said she could get out a delivery notice to the driver as others I read about have said and so I said "okay" and she asks me to hold on and then comes back after a couple of minutes and says I'd get a call and so while logged off the net - I wait about an hour and no call...

Hmm so I re-logged on to check my email the status again and complain here... And also did I mention there were people and at least a dozen outside in the front parking lot of our apartment building? ugh! :(

That was my first time using DHL. Palm was sending me a replacement unit to send back my ol' one which is messed up and I chose advanced exchange.

So far I have no respect for DHL and I now think it is a global policy to do what they did... And so in doing this they have broke a 2 day shipping contract with palm.com for not delivery the item to me within 2-3 days and especially holding intentionally onto a package for another 3 days or so unless I don't get it Monday...

SEDALIA, MISSOURI -- On 12-5-08 I was expecting a package from DHL Express out of Kansas City, MO. My regular delivery driver called me and told me that she did not have a package for me. She asked what zip code it originated from and I told her. She told me she would make some phone calls and get back with me. A short while later, I spoke with her again and she told me that one of the other drivers had by mistake put it on his delivery route truck and the package was still in Kansas City, two hours away. This was very upsetting as this package contained payroll checks.

This delivery driver told me in a conversation that she would be willing to meet me halfway later in the day to get the package to me. After discussing the situation with the owner of my company we decided to file a complaint with DHL, through their 800 number. I also had the contact name and number of the individual in the Kansas City location, so I therefore called him. He became very angry and screamed "I know what you ** want, I'll bring you your ** check!" With that he hung up on me.

I therefore contacted the 800 number again and lodged another complaint. A short while later a DHL representative by the name of ** called me back, I explained to him what had occurred and he was very apologetic. He told me that ** was on his way down with the package/payroll.

At 2:36 [snip] arrived at my office. He threw the envelope down on my desk and proceeded to scream that the regular delivery driver was going to meet me later that day to get the package to me. I told him that we pay DHL to provide a service and they fail miserably at it. He then proceeded to scream more calling me a liar and other things. He slammed my office door shut and stomped off down the hallway. By this time other businesses in my office building had come out of their office to see what all the screaming was about. Everyone was rather flabbergasted at the unprofessionalism and actions of **.

I again spoke with ** from DHL and later in the day a ** (who is the actual employer of ** from Gateway in Omaha Nebraska) called me. Gateway is a contractor for DHL Express. ** told me that he had discussed the first incident regarding the profanities on the phone with ** and he had known nothing about the incident that took place in my office when ** delivered the package. He too apologized and said that he thinks that [snip] is stressed out due to DHL folding and everyone losing their jobs. He said that if they were not losing their jobs in a few weeks, then he would terminate him for this but because of the status of DHL, he would not be doing so.

This however is NO excuse for ** behavior. ** is the driver SUPERVISOR. What an example he leads for the others. I have seen this individual in person twice now. I was stunned when I first found out that he was a supervisor as he was very dirty and unkempt looking.

I know that there have been drivers, namely an individual by the name of ** who worked in the Warrensburg, MO area until last Friday, when he was let go early, ** in the past has been suspended because of throwing packages while at the depot. This was not in the presence of a customer as ** was. I would like ** to be reprimanded and made to apologize to me and the people in my office building who heard his tirade.

I worked for DHL about 7 months and I lived in flesh and blood the customer's experiences. I think most of the customer force in US should create a union against this DHL's false publicity for their services. The people at the call center are engaged to certain "stupid" privacy policies. For example, they have all the station's information, like names, phones, emails, etc, however DHL does not authorize those persons to provide any kind of staff's contact to the customer. I guess this information should be provided to him because he's the one paying for the service.

There were critical cases I tried to resolve but what I received was "coaching" from my supervisor asking me to stop fighting with my own "colleagues". I was there, in my desk, with my PC and my headset thinking: If I continue pushing these people to follow the company's procedures in order to provide an excellent customer experience they will end my work contract here, they'll consider me problematic.

I want you to understand the call center staff is not monitored for quality purposes; I never received feedback and the service I was providing by phone become from myself like: listen all the questions, comments, suggestions, from the customer and redirect it to the person in charge, I sent more than 50 emails with this information I never received a reply back from the person who was handling those issues in order to expedite a satisfactory answer.

I also learned this company is not willing to hire new employees to respond appropriately to the actual demand. 50 persons for 3000 daily undeliverable tickets. No salary increase, no additional benefits like medical coverage, insurance plan, etc. Sometimes I asked myself if that was an India's remote call center.

I did my best inside the organization but the chains are unbreakable. There is a specific case with certain company in AZ, God, I remember that one, DHL charged the duties in the shipper and receiver account. The customer said “I cannot believe this, I spoke with your Billing Department 4 month ago and no refund is reported in my monthly statements.” I said, "well, I don't handle your Billing records. I don't even have access to it, however I'm going to contact a supervisor over there for this."

Big mistake! When I ended the email requesting information about this I asked my supervisor for an email. This was her answer: “we don't handle that, just refer the customer to the toll free number, somebody else will take care of this.” What should you do in my shoes? I wanted to help but the person one step higher did not. I read almost all reviews and that's only a part of the cake. When you open an account with DHL, my friend, be aware to keep some days by month to handle the billing issues.

You have to bands working in DHL: customer's side, DHL's side. I choose the 1st one, I continued fighting with all DHL's staff around the world, emailing the station's managers telling that their courier are lying, asking them to take actions to avoid further customer's deceptions, transferring the customers directly with them and all the information available in my system, etc.

Until one day my working life becomes uncomfortable. I received daily poor observations from my supervisor and her boss asking me to explain why I'm changing my working style. They questioned me in every way and they even doubted about my notes for each case, “it seems you are delaying the packages on purpose,” big words from poor minds.

A few weeks ago a truly loved supervisor ended her contract to go to the Philippines. Bad news for me, I was alone in the daily fighting, so, I received a work offer from a bigger company and now I'm here, out of DHL and with all the possible improvements just in my mind. Sadly they see themselves as N 1 but it's not truth. The key success for a delivery company was forgotten: "CUSTOMER SATISFACTION and quickly actions to complete every delivery even before the estimated date."

Of course, I don't use DHL service and the carrier company is the main aspect I check before shopping my stuff. However I guess every problem has a solution. As a former employee, as a customer my suggestions: For you- UPS/FedEx are customer focused. They fail too but you'll notice a faster resolution for your inquiry. For DHL- your employee could be your future customer, daily details are most important than annual results. Further questions? Email me!

DENVER, COLORADO -- Obviously there's a whole heck of a lot of people here that complain about the services that this company has rendered (or not) to them. I'm here to present my view on things, as a fair-minded, happy-go-lucky guy. I've done well over 2 thousand shipments of products with all manner of shipping companies: everything from UPS to the USPS. I'm sure that when you read some of the horror stories the people here have written you will be slightly frightened of using DHL in the future. Let me set the record straight.

Most service-related reviews are bad reviews. People who have a good or great experience think little of it and move on about their day. On the other hand people who have had issues occur are first to jump to the guns. As a result you only often hear the bad side of a company. DHL may commit mistakes, I've had it happen to me. But so does FedEx and UPS, and all manner of shipping companies. The bigger they are, the better the odds you will have a bad experience. It's a reverse curve of relation.

You'd imagine things would be better with a wealthier company, but reality is that logistics has little to do with money and lots to do with people. The more hands (or robots!) touch a product from the start of the delivery chain to the end of it the more likely something is going to happen.

There's literally HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS, if not MILLIONS of units of shipment, with different delivery services, of all sizes and shapes being sorted by systems that were ultimately engineered and implemented by humans. The system states things should work, always. Reality is the system is as human as the people who made it.

I have received (on average) about 75% of my deliveries from DHL earlier than expected. That is to say before the Estimated Delivery Time. I've had a few opportunities to deal with the local depot to arrange pickups for things I suddenly realized I needed earlier than expected. I don't know if it is just my local branch (Denver Colorado) but I've received nothing but the utmost respect and quality of service from each and every one of the service members I've interacted with over the last 5 years.

Several times my package would not have been entered into the system and the service assistant put me on hold and by golly they'd find it. That's a feat of Customer Service that warrants an accolade from me. I can't imagine how many times I've called a store to ask them if they have something in just to have them put me on hold for 10 seconds and tell me they have nothing of the sort (that is until I show up 10 minutes later and find it myself)!

In conclusion: I ask you to keep your own counsel. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but their experience is hardly ever universally true. Shipping and Delivery is a complicated and incredibly difficult industry. The standards are often set too high, sometimes by the companies own ambitious executive and marketing teams. Remember that when it comes right down to it having one package out of ten thousand get lost or delivered late is not so unreasonable. There's the doorbell! And my new 360 game is one day ahead of schedule!

MEFORD, OREGON -- Attempting to get a package delivered by DHL has been an extremely frustrating experience. I have had many problems in the past with DHL, but after this latest delivery disaster, I will only order a product from a company if they are willing to send the package out with a delivery company other than DHL.

A summary of the latest events: I had a delivery attempt notice from DHL left on my front door. On Monday, August 11, I called DHL to arrange a delivery date for my package. I told the representative that I would be available Wednesday, August 13 to sign for the package and asked that I receive delivery on that date. I added that I would NOT be at home on any other day that week. I was told that my package would be scheduled for delivery on Wed, Aug 13.

On Tues, Aug 12, I came home from work to find a delivery attempt notice from DHL on my door. They were not supposed to have come that day. I called DHL customer "service" and told them what had happened and asked if my package was still scheduled to be delivered tomorrow (Wednesday) as originally promised. I was told that my package would be delivered Wednesday. This is the second time I was told I would receive delivery on Wednesday, Aug 13.

I waited at home (all day) Wednesday for my package. It never came. I finally called DHL and asked if my package was coming that day as I had been promised (twice). I was told by the representative that my package had never been scheduled for delivery on that day. I told the representative that I had been told both Monday (when I originally scheduled delivery) and Tuesday that I was scheduled for delivery on Wednesday.

I was then told that requests are only requests, they may or may not be honored. I had never been told this on Monday or Tuesday. I had been told that my package would be delivered, not that it "might" be delivered. How is it possible to schedule delivery with DHL when they will promise a delivery date, then not deliver, then tell the customer that they sometimes will just ignore the requested (and promised to the customer) delivery date?

I then asked for re-delivery on a date when I would actually be home to sign for it. I was told that they would not attempt delivery again. I then contacted the sender, Nordstrom. According to Nordstrom's tracking information from DHL, my package had been listed as delivered on Tuesday. This was a lie on the part of DHL! I told Nordstrom that this was most definitely NOT true and that I have proof in the form of an "attempted delivery" notice on the date that DHL claims they delivered it.

Nordstrom called DHL and DHL then offered to deliver the package on Thursday, August 14. I would not be at home that day, so I refused this delivery offer (this was the only date DHL would offer for delivery, not a date when I would be at home to sign for it). By this time, I had had enough with DHL. I discussed the problem with Nordstrom and with their (very helpful) representative, we decided the best thing to do would be to have the package sent back "return to sender" and Nordstrom would then send the package back to me with a different delivery company.

DHL was told to send the package back to Nordstrom on Wed afternoon. I thought this was the end of the problem but when I returned home from work on Thursday, I found a DHL attempted delivery notice. This package was now supposed to be in the process of returning to Nordstrom. I had refused DHL's offer of delivery on this date, I told them that I would not be at home and delivery would be impossible.

For reasons I do not understand, they decided to refuse the order to return the package to sender and decided to attempt to deliver again. I contacted Nordstrom and told them about the problem. According to Nordstrom's records, the package should have been sent back to them. Nordstrom contacted DHL to make certain DHL sent the package back to them. I called DHL on Thursday to file a complaint concerning DHL's unacceptable "service". I was told by a representative that I would receive a call from DHL on Friday concerning this matter. Did this happen? Of course not. I am very frustrated with DHL!

HOUSTON, TEXAS -- I was expecting a package from Dell. I stayed home the whole day of Jan. 21, 2008. On or about Jan. 28, 2008 I found the package was just dropped off in the leasing office without any notification. I called the DHL 1-800, no one called back. I emailed, the email stated I would be contacted. I had no call back to either of these.

On Jan. 31, I picked the package up from the office and noticed the DHL guy. I asked was he the regular person, he stated that he was, I then asked him why did he not come to my door. First he stated he did come to the door. I told him I was home ALL DAY and he did not come to my door. I then asked about my notification slip, I did not have one.

He stated he put it on my door. I informed him I never received a slip on my door. He then said he put it on my mailbox door. I informed him he has no business touching the mailbox, that is for the mail carrier. He then said he called me. I asked if his job was to call or deliver? He then informed me I did not know his job. I informed him I did know his job and he didn't do his job. He kept trying to offer excuse after excuse. Bottom-line I was home, I didn't have a knock on my door, nor did I receive a notice. Not on my door, not on my mailbox... I had nothing.

I then told him I would call his job. I then got in my car to avoid confrontation with him. As I drove off he KICKED the side of my car. I got out to ask him why did he kick my car? He repeatedly accused me of trying to hit him with my car. I told him if I wanted to hit you I would have sandwiched you in between my car and your van. He then put his finger in my face, and continuously called me a "stupid ** **." I then told him "If I am a stupid ** ** you are a stupid ** **, because I am calling Houston Police Dept. and pressing charges." He continuously shouted "Do It! Do It!".

I called HPD and filed a report so that he can be charged with criminal mischief for damages to my car. While waiting for the police to arrive, I called the 1-800 and received a call from a supervisor. I informed him of the incident. This supervisor continuously made excuses for why the package was not brought to my door. Even saying that they could not leave packages. Which was not the point because I was home. When the subject of the call came up, he said DHL had the right to call. And that was fine and good, but I NEVER received a call. And I also made it a point to tell him that a phone call is NOT an ATTEMPT to deliver.

I asked him to repeat my phone number in the system. He could not produce a number for my address. He then said it was on the box. I told him that my number wasn't on the box. When I told him the number on the box was not my number I still got a run around of why the package was not brought to my door. Again, that was a MOOT point. Because now my car is damaged.

That was the subject of this call. He tried telling me about the tracking system and the reasoning behind it. I had been trying to track the package on the system EVERYDAY. Monday, January 28, 2008, was the first day I could track it via the link that Dell gave me. I needed my package January 26, 2007. I gave him the scenario of an elderly person that does not have computer access and would rely on DHL to come to their door. What if this person could not walk to the office to pick up their package? Everyone doesn't have computer access.

Basically I seemed to be getting excuse after excuse. And again at this point, that was not the point. The point was I received damage to my car by one of your drivers. At that time I stated there was possible damage to the vehicle. He said he would forward the information to the manager. A Houston Police Officer arrived and took the report. He could clearly see the damage to my car once I point it out to him. He gave me an incident number.

I called on Monday, February 4, 2008, and talked to supervisor AGAIN to ask what am I supposed to do about the damages to my car? Will they come out and look at it... What am I supposed to do? He referred me to a manager. He stated he would pass along the information, which I thought had already been passed along. I called the manager on February 5, 2008, and I did not receive an answer or a call back. I called again on February 6, 2008, still no return call by the manager.

CHHICAGO, IDAHO -- CEO for US has a long way to go. I needed tickets to a Packers game sent to a very large customer of ours. They were to be picked up by DHL on Wed (12/5) for next day delivery by 1200. They did not pick until Thurs... I was thinking this is okay because they have until Sat; furthermore, we are not talking to China -- we are talking from Chicago to Oregon! I told the DHL reps on Friday that I would pick them up Saturday wherever the tickets were located if they were not going to deliver it - I would do their job and they would get paid for it! - nice eh? BUT THEY PROMISED A SATURDAY DELIVERY -- 3 reps actually promised me that.

Well, it is Saturday at 5 pm and the customer did not get the Packers tickets. Packers happen to be doing very well this season so the tickets are important to many people in WI. Not one rep said they were sorry or apologized until I stated so. Their service is horrible... HOW CAN YOU NOT GET ONE LITTLE ENVELOPE FROM CHICAGO TO OREGON IN 3DAYS!!! Especially since we requested next day service!!! The only thing the rep said they could do is fill out a claim for shipper fees. Well, this would obviously be a given and should be taken care of immediately... But of course, it won't be.

And as if spending 7 hours on the phone with DHL last night and today was not enough, I assure you that I will have to do all kind of crap and paperwork just to get reimbursed for the shipping fees. This company absolutely sucks... I cannot believe they are in business. If I ran my business like this, I would be out of business very quickly.

It is always a wonder to me how people like Hans could be in the position he is in when it is so obvious to me how badly this company is run. How did DHL get to where they are? How does this happen? It is truly amazing to me... I will give Hans that. I guess it is the whole "branding thing"... has nothing to do with how well they actually provide the service.

One excuse by DHL was comical-- it was snowing. It was not snowing, and for people that deliver STEEL in the snow, it seems ridiculous that DHL, whose entire existence is to freight packages from point A to point B, could not make the delivery. AND NONE OF THE REPS CLAIM THEY CAN DO ANYTHING -- Hans, why are you spending DHL's money to eploy such people? They all claimed that they have no way to contact the drivers - WHAT??? One of the world's largest shippers has no way to contact couriers??? I don't buy it, but if that is the case, again -- long way to go.

THIS IS THE SECOND TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED WITH TICKETS -- only last year, it was the Bears tickets, who was a hot team at the time. The customer got their tickets on Monday, the day after the game. Thanks DHL! Hans needs to get a clue. He is paying representatives at call centers who cannot do anything to help a customer and many of them are worthless and actually rude. I think it is funny that this letter says Hans cannot be "beat"; I, as I am sure would many others, would run circles around him. If this is the way he runs things, I assure you that the US market will catch on quickly.

BUSINESS PEOPLE WILL NOT BE USING DHL FOR VERY LONG. THEY ARE SOOOO UNRELIABLE. The reps act like they are not even in the business of shipping or service! They use snow as an excuse; yet, many companies like ours are delivering truckloads of steel in the same weather (it wasn't snowing -- there was a little snow a couple days prior, but hardly enough to hold up shipments). UNBELIEVABLE!!!

HANS -- You had better take the "Express" part of "DHL Express" out of the name... IT IS FALSE ADVERTISEMENT! As the CEO, you should be embarrassed. I will now sign off -- I have to go spend another $600 on Packers tickets for my customer since Hans could not get his people to uphold their obligation... Thanks!

BRONX, NEW YORK -- A few weeks ago I contacted Dell because my my computer was acting up and the mouse wouldn't work. After much time and effort, Dell decided the best they could do was sent out another mouse. Dell will usually tell you that your product will be delivered within 2-4 weeks but having dealt with them for almost 4 years, I know that chances are your product will be at your door within 2 days. I love this about Dell and I guess that a few other reasons is why I stick with them.

About a week later while checking my mail I get a bill from Dell in the amount of $6.76, the cost of the mouse. This was standard with Dell. If they send you a replacement for a broken part you must send them the broken part back or they will bill you. Realizing it was taking longer than usual to get my package, I went online to DHL to track my package. Lo and behold they said my package had been delivered to a doorman or apartment manager, neither of which exists in my building.

So I inform DHL of the mistake but ultimately they claim there is nothing they can do. I then call Dell who says they will send out the package again using DHL. I plead with them not to use this company but basically DHL is the service they use so there is nothing I can do.

Again, after not receiving my package for over week I go to the DHL website to track my package and it says they attempted delivery twice with no luck. I then call DHL and they further add that the driver tells them my address does not exist. Naturally this isn't true, I verify my address and they again promise delivery the next day. The next comes and goes with no package from DHL but lots of apologies and more promises of the packages forthcoming delivery to me.

Now here we are Monday and I decide to call first thing in the morning to make sure my package will be delivered today. I am assured by a woman named Bernice that I will have my package and well that was that. So I wait all day for my package and around 3:30 I decide to go back online to check the status of my delivery and sure enough, it says it has been delivered.

Now I am absolutely livid because it isn't just about a six dollar mouse. It is the principle of the whole thing. Not to mention, I order from Dell all the time and if they are going to continue to use this company to ship their products then I will just have to find someone else to deal with besides Dell.

Anyway, I call DHL and give them a piece of my mind. Naturally I am given more apologies and this time lies to boot. I asked to speak with a supervisor who I could tell was lying to me when he claimed his driver told him he delivered the package to a woman who was opening the door so he just left the package there. Have you ever heard anything so effing stupid in your life? Why would he just leave the package and walk away? Doesn't common sense and company policy dictate that he get a signature?

I then decide to call Dell, not to get another mouse, but to complain and give them a piece of my mind as well. A customer service agent pleads with me to hold on and they will make it up to me. She tell me to hold for a supervisor who wants to speak to me. While holding DHL calls and I switch over to talk to them and basically listen to more of their excuses. I tell them I won't ever use their company and promptly switch back over to Dell, only to find out I have been disconnected.

I then call back and again a customer service agent says they insist on reshipping the product and will use a different company. So I agree and am put on hold for almost an hour. Why I held on was beyond me. The CS agent kept coming back asking me to hold an extra 2 minutes. He did that at least 4 or 5 times before he comes back and requests a different shipping address of which I do not plan to give them or have. I don't want anything of mine shipped anywhere except to my front door, that way if something goes wrong as it did in this case I can firmly state that the problem was not caused on my end.

So to tie this all up, I have no new mouse and will of course be purchasing a new optical mouse like I usually do every 3-6 months. Dell will probably never ship anything to me again as they may think I am a thief. DHL walks away scot free and not giving a damn because they still got paid by Dell for work they never did. And let's not forget that somebody out there has two brand new mouses from Dell.

I would also like to add that this is not about the mouse really. I could have easily purchased another mouse and have done just that. This is about something that should have been delivered to me being either LOST or STOLEN not once but TWICE.

I order offline quite often and the thought of not getting things that I purchase bothers me. Suppose this had been a pricey object, what would have happened then? When will DHL take responsibility for its screw ups and stop lying to customers and their merchants?