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by dingaling 3347 days ago
Particularly ironic inversion since DHL was formed as a US company to fly bills of lading between San Francisco and Honolulu. Initially they used spare capacity in air passengers' baggage so that the bills would arrive ahead of the actual cargo on ships.

Eventually moved upstream into moving the cargo itself.

DHL == Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn