DHL Express Delivers Holiday Gifts to U.S. Troops in the Middle East

The corrected release reads: DHL Express Delivers Holiday Gifts to U.S. Troops in the Middle East For the sixth straight year, tiffany earrings Express, the world's leading express delivery and logistics company, has teamed up with the New York community to donate and deliver hundreds of holiday trees, decorations and messages of support to U.S. troops in the Middle East through DHL's annual "Trees for Troops" charitable program. The special holiday shipment will receive a send-off celebration on Monday, December 7th at DHL's international gateway facility at JFK Airport.

DHL is donating all transportation and logistical services of the trees and holiday items, which have been generously supplied through donations from New York businesses and community organizations, including Dee's Nursery, Adelis International Security, Adopt-a-Soldier Platoon, Proctor-Hopson Post 1896 Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), and other members of the New York metro community. 500 real trees with lights and tinsel, menorahs, holiday decorations and "Santa Sacks" filled with thousands of holiday cards written by local school children will be transported to U.S. troops overseas.

Monday's send-off will commence at 12:15 p.m. at DHL's gateway facility at John F. Kennedy International Airport, as the trees and holiday items arrive by police escort from Dees Nursery in Oceanside, New York. After a brief ceremony, featuring entertainment by the USO and letters to the troops read aloud by local school children - the trees will be loaded onto a DHL 767 aircraft. The shipment will lift off on Tuesday, December 8 for DHL's European hub in Leipzig, and then onward to DHL's Middle East hub in Bahrain. From Bahrain, the holiday shipment will be separated and distributed to military units throughout Iraq and Afghanistan.

"As the specialists in international tiffany key, DHL is proud to leverage our extensive global network and deliver this much-deserved shipment of holiday gifts to our U.S. troops this season," said Ian Clough, CEO of DHL Express, USA. "Aside from Santa himself, we are the most reliable route for on-time delivery to remote locations around the globe - but we wear yellow."

In Iraq and Afghanistan, DHL Express has more company staff, in more locations in country than any other carrier in the region, in addition to owning its own trucks and planes. DHL Express has operated in Afghanistan since 2001 and in Iraq since 2003 in direct support of the Department of Defense. DHL has been operating in the Middle East for over 30 years -- longer than any other carrier.

DHL launched its annual Trees for Troops program in December 2004, after Jim Adelis, a New York businessman, overheard a woman at Dee's Nursery inquiring about how to ship a Christmas tree to her son in Iraq. Adelis, whose son was stationed in Iraq at the time, was inspired to reach out to DHL and the local community to deliver more than just a single tree. In November and December 2004, with the help the U.S. Army Reserve 77th Regional Readiness Command, Dee's Nursery and the New York metro community, DHL delivered two shipments featuring a total of 135 trees and holiday decorations from JFK to U.S. troops stationed at Camp Anaconda in Balad, Iraq.

DHL Express is the international shipping and logistics expert. Its U. S. A. operations focus exclusively on import and tiffany pendants services to and from the U.S. market to more than 220 countries and territories worldwide through its unparalleled global network, catering to companies that operate globally and require fast, reliable international shipping services. This year, the U.S. Express network enhanced its international capabilities through new dedicated flights; a new principal hub in Cincinnati, Ohio and a new partner for retail access to international shipping services. The company also enhanced its culture of international expertise by providing Certified International Specialist training to all employees, a new requirement for every DHL U.S. Express employee. With more than 40 years of international shipping experience and 46 state-of-the-art hubs around the world from Shanghai to Cincinnati, approximately 95% of U.S. inbound shipments are cleared on the day of arrival, where regulations permit.