wow!!!At first I really didnt know what to think about this but then I thought about it for a minute and decided on the following. If this happen, it says that it would just be the us unit. How many customers would come back to ups if this did go through, you know customers who were ours and just switched to dhl for the prices? If fedex did take over their customers the prices would probably go up. I believe fedex is really at a turning point here. The express unit is not what it was 10 years ago, and the freight company side of things are taking a hit from ups freight and yellow. The ground side is growing but not like it was when they were first starting out. All the recent problems with the lawsuits and the govt. along with the flat sales of kinkos is really starting to get to them imo. Looks like ups has really put the pressure on dhl here. that is good in some aspects, but as someone else said, ups has been known to unfairly target competition. There is no way that an anti trust suit would even apply here, think about it. With he new ceo. maybe ups could go one up on fedex and purchase something like TNT, EXEL or DHL international...its really interesting to think about. Internationally, ups needs to be as big as player as dhl, this will help domestic volume as well. I would like to be a fly on the wall at ups corpotate on monday where you know this topic will be discussed. One more thing, if this deal did go through, they would really only be buying the posibility to service dhl current customers. theres no promise that 100% of their customers would stick around to see them bought out. This is interesting.Then theres the teamster aspect of the whole thing also...hmmm. This could be the biggest news of 2008...what do you think ups would do to counteract this? I wonder how much dhl has in market share as of now???