How DHL Pioneered the Sharing Economy

Posted by dsr12 on Saturday February 13, 2016 @09:01PM
from the techcrunch.com dept.

http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/13/how-dhl-pioneered-the-sharing-economy/

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Re:How DHL Pioneered the Sharing Economy by merb on Sunday February 14, 2016 @07:07AM (#11097981)

I didn't even know that DHL (a german company now) is so big.. I always thought that DHL is only a german logistic company which only serve's packages locally. And that the name implies ('Deutsche Handles Logistik')

Strange that I was completly wrong

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Re:How DHL Pioneered the Sharing Economy by throwaway_exer on Sunday February 14, 2016 @03:58AM (#11097636)

Ironically, when using DHL to ship documents from Canada to Asia in the 80s, they would often postal mail them and pocket the difference. So we ended up using a local office service in-country to re-mail.

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Re:How DHL Pioneered the Sharing Economy by jarredcolli on Saturday February 13, 2016 @10:23PM (#11096995)

This is super insightful. I had no idea about DHLs origins.

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