[Normy]

DHL is owned by...the German Post Office!

I'm not kidding. DHL, which stands for "Deery, Hillblom, and Lynne", started out as a Lear-jet operator out of San Francisco in 1973. They made their money by flying airliner parts from California to Honolulu. When a plane broke down in HNL, Mr. Deery, Mr, Hillblom, or Mr. Lynne would go out to the learjet and fly it 5 hours out to the islands. A typical flight netted them something along the lines of $50,000, so they were more than happy to help out!

Well, they built their business-service cargo airline up so that they needed heavy jets. These were added in 1996 in the form of DC-8's. They've since repainted all their airplanes...but the DHL DC-8's used to all say "The Brussels Connection", which indicated DHL's huge hub in Brussels, Belgium. That hub has since closed, since the Belgian government was more interested in low-noise at night than it was in local jobs.

DHL has since bought Airborne Express, an overnight package deliverer. UPS wants to buy DHL's American operations, and Fedex is right behind the guys in BROWN; We're smaller but smarter. We'll find a WAY to buy out all the idiot packages!

N!