A 24 hour package delivery service is one of the most popular service of selected courier companies next to same day delivery service. The good about this kind of service is its quick and on time delivery. It can be used for simple delivery services such as delivering gifts for tomorrow's birthday party, or for a more important or urgent event such as delivering important documents, goods, as well as medical supplies. Today, a number courier companies have begun to provide 24 hour package delivery services or sometimes called overnight delivery. One of the first international courier company to have offered this kind of service is DHL.
DHL's Overnight Delivery Service
DHL Express, or Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn, is one of the biggest known international courier companies in the world. The company was primarily interested in offshore and inter-continental deliveries, but the success of FedEx prompted their own inter-US expansion starting in 1983. DHL aggressively expanded to countries that could not be served by any other delivery service, including the Eastern Bloc, Vietnam and the People's Republic of China.
Major competitors include FedEx, UPS, TNT, and national post carriers such as United States Postal Service and Royal Mail. However, DHL has a minor partnership with the USPS, which allows DHL to deliver small packages to the recipient through the USPS network. It also is the sole provider for transferring USPS mail in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the 1970s DHL was one of the only truly international delivery companies, and the only one offering 24 hour package delivery service. The only major competitor in the overnight market was Federal Express (FedEx), which didn't open its first international service until 1981, expanding to Toronto, Canada. Nevertheless, the domestic market was extremely profitable, and DHL was the third largest courier behind FedEx and the UPS.
DHL turned their attention to the overnight market in the US, following the success of FedEx, and opened a major distribution hub in Cincinnati in 1983. However, DHL was never able to overcome FedEx's head start, capturing only 6% of the domestic market. In comparison, at the same time they were by far the largest international carrier, with 40% of that market. By the late 1980s the domestic operations were losing money, while the foreign operations continued to account for 2/3rds of the company's income. A European hub opened in Brussels in 1985. For more information visit to our site at http://www.lbcexpress.com
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