https://laforge.gnumonks.org/enThu, 24 Oct 2024 20:08:49 GMTNikola (getnikola.com)http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rsshttps://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20161206-dhl_rest_of_world/Harald Welte<p>I typically prefer to blog about technical topics, but the occasional stupidity in every-day (business) life is simply too hard to resist.</p> <p>Today I updated the shipping pricing / zones in the ERP system of my company to predict shipping rates based on weight and destination of the package.</p> <p>Deutsche Post, the German Postal system is using their DHL brand for postal packages. They divide the world into four zones:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li><p>Zone 1 (EU)</p></li> <li><p>Zone 2 (Europe outside EU)</p></li> <li><p>Zone 3 (World)</p></li> </ul> <p>You would assume that "World" encompasses everything that's not part of the other zones. So far so good. However, I then stumbled about <strong>Zone 4 (rest of world)</strong>. See for yourself:</p> <img alt="/images/dhl-rest_of_world.png" src="https://laforge.gnumonks.org/images/dhl-rest_of_world.png"> <p>So the <em>World</em> according to DHL is a very small group of countries including Libya and Syria, while countries like Mexico are <strong>rest of world</strong></p> <p>Quite charming, I wonder which PR, communicatoins or marketing guru came up with such a disqualifying name. Maybe they should hve called id 3rd world and 4th world instead? Or even discworld?</p>businessdhlmischttps://laforge.gnumonks.org/blog/20161206-dhl_rest_of_world/Mon, 05 Dec 2016 23:50:00 GMT