An original translation by Ava Lon with much thanks
from this German news site:
The DHL subsidiary Express doesn’t deliver parcels or packages in the Berlin, Wedding district. The reason is allegedly increased amounts of fraud and attacks on the drivers.
The DHL Express delivery service does not offer packets and parcels in the Berliner Wedding (Wedding is an area of Berlin) at the front door. “Unfortunately, there have been attacks on couriers in the past, and there have also been attempts at fraud. In order to ensure the courier’s security and that of the shipments for the customers arrive safely, we have decided in this particular case” said DHL -Sprecherin Anke Blenn to the RBB.
The “Berliner Kurier” was the first one to report on this. According to them, DHL-Express denies the delivery of packages in at least three Berlin neighborhoods, certain zip code postal areas are allegedly no longer approached. They are all allegedly in Wedding. It was also said, DHL stopped the supply in “Violent neighborhoods”. The company denied this representation of the facts: Only the subsidiary DHL Express is allegedly concerned, it said. In addition, it is allegedly about “few individual cases”.
Packages from DHL Express must be collected in individual cases
DHL Express is responsible for so-called “time-defined express shipments”. In agreement with the respective consignors, it would now be decided on a case-by-case basis to no longer deliver certain consignments, a written statement said. The recipient is then promptly informed that his shipment is located in the nearest DHL Express pick-up station.
DHL package continues to provide all packages. There is always a personal delivery attempt. If the recipient is not found or the package can not be deposited in the neighborhood, the package will be sent to the nearest post office where it can be picked up.
“DHL declares Wedding neighbourhood of Berlin [a] no-go zone”
While not too monumental-sounding, this “no-go zone” recognition by DHL (the oldest fast-turn delivery courier in the business) is a gigantic change-up in corporate operations, if only in Berlin (for now).
Imagine if America’s domestic branch of FedX refused to make overnight deliveries in core areas of Baltimore, Atlanta, Detroit, or South Chicago. Take a moment to consider the repercussions for legitimate businesses in those areas being denied such critical services.
Few people in the United States realize that the job of an American pizza delivery driver is far more dangerous than that of a lumberjack or high-rise steel worker.
Evidently, ordinary people in Europe are finally beginning to understand that operating within the confines of a Muslim neighborhood is hazardous to one’s health. Go ahead and predict just how fast this negative effect is going to ripple through all of the other “no-go zones” that Muslims have created throughout Europe.
The pigeons are coming home to roost and Islam’s determined effort to “coop” up European Muslims will rapidly produce a swift deterioration in both business operations and employment opportunities within high-density
no-go zones“immigrant”ghettosenclaves.Welcome to your own personal, private, hells you non-assimilating, separate-but-equal, rectal cavities.
“Second Chance is an American body armor manufacturing company and was the first one to use kevlar for body armor. The company was founded in the early 1970s by former U.S. Marine and pizza delivery owner/driver Richard Davis. Davis developed the idea of a bulletproof vest after shooting three armed robbers in self-defense during a delivery. This incident was later documented in a 1995 book written by firearms instructor Massad Ayoob called The Ayoob Files: The Book.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Chance_%28body_armor%29
http://www.pizzatoday.com/departments/features/2013-april-street-smart/ Another way to protect drivers is to simply avoid delivering to high crime rate areas. At the Farmers Branch, Texas-based Mr. Jim’s Pizza, some addresses are eligible for delivery during the day and not at night, and other addresses are not eligible for delivery at all. “It’s all geocoded,” explains Jim Johnson, founder and owner of the 53-unit Mr. Jim’s. “If you are in an address where we don’t deliver, the system doesn’t let you in.”
This is a start towards genuine ghettos, I wonder if the vigilante action will come before or after someone suggests walling in the ghettos?
It is so strange to read this and something which a Canadian guy living in Berlin wrote.
It seems that the problem for some, like the author of the “needle” is not that the place is “shaggy, unkempt, and dotted with industrial installations” the real problem is a possible “gentrificaltion.”
http://needleberlin.com/2013/08/31/gentrification-alert-wedding/
I laughed so much when I read through the comments on that article you linked, I almost spilled my breakfast coffee. It is amusing how these people dislike the company of their own kind. So they move and move, and try to find “hidden gems”, thus destroying what they seek. Reminds me of those Western travellers and backpackers roaming the world, on search for the ultimate “un-touristy” area.