Auslander,
To a degree, yes. Fellows, Dorken, et al have been assigned to the dustbin. However, instead of trying to maintain control over the DHL product, DPWN's answer is to simply turn it all over to UPS. I don't know how it will affect people in Europe, but here, DHL's product will draw down to nothing. It's already happening. Think about it a moment. Which would you rather do:
1. Have a DHL contractor pick up your shipment. Then, it disappears into UPS, gets picked up by another DHL contractor on the other end, who then drops it off at the US Post Office, for the "last mile" delivery. (Seriously, this the plan for many locations in the US.)
2., Or, simply have UPS or FedEx pick up your shipment, scan it into their respective tracking systems, and know where your package is at all times, without it ever changing hands. (I know which method I'll be choosing.)
I fear that the deal being crafted over here between DHL/UPS may also infect the EU. This smells of an eventual merger, or, as Mullen is so fond of comparing it to, "it's like a code-share". I think this is just the opening salvo in the destruction/sell out of DHL globally. I don't want to see that happen. I have some friends from the old DHL days that work in Europe. I'd like for them to get to avoid this kind of nightmare, if at all possible.
As to the video itself, there are no half-truths, etc. in it, and it's certainly not intended to be xenophobic. DHL started as a US company. DPWN is a German company. If some feel that's a "jet blast", I'm amazed.