In my experience DHL itself is fast, but their cripple is when they hand off packages (not sure if they do for all packages including 2 day shipping etc) to the post office to deliver. The latest thing I got from DHL got to my city lets say on tuesday, handed off to USPS, wednesday they sorted it, and finally got it thursday. It was like an extra day on top of any other carrier where it arrives, and is sorted that night and shipped out the next day. Oh well.