Comment / Against the odds: Deutsche Post DHL – seamlessly integrated to the bone

There are few companies that are better defined by their interim financial performance than Germany’s Deutsche Post DHL in the third quarter (Q3 21) of this year.

The necessary – perhaps redundant? – premise being that while pre-Covid the integrated logistics model and its efficacy were severely questioned, hindering value accretion as the parts seldom worked flawlessly together, the pandemic has been a total revolution in that respect.

Deutsche Post DHL – a UPS and FedEx with a once-troubled, smaller postal service ...