DHL had no choice and has been reviewing this for years. Astar and ABX were and are instransigent, expensive and uncompetitive. They had guarantees in terms of their profitability and had literrally bled DHL alive for years. Having said that DHL's incompetance for either agreeing the terms initially and not doing something about it sooner is right up their with the Astar and ABX failings.
To use a rugby term, they have "pulled the maul down on themselves" now though and will get hurt from here on it, its big its brown and its going to own your town.!