To recoup shipping debt, DHL files a lawsuit against Mike Lindell’s MyPillow

MINNEAPOLIS: Package delivery service DHL is suing MyPillow, claiming the latter is linked to its creator, chief evangelist, and election skeptic Mike Lindell, and that the former owes the latter company around $800,000 in unpaid debts. The complaint is the most recent legal battle to surface against MyPillow and Lindell, a well-known Trump supporter who has contributed to the ex-president’s fabrications that the 2020 election was rigged against him.

The DHL eCommerce unit filed a complaint on Monday in Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis, alleging that MyPillow is in breach of a contract that mandates the Minnesota-based company pay for all parcel delivery services within 15 days of receiving a bill.

Only paid a portion of settlement

According to the lawsuit, a settlement was reached in May 2023, requiring MyPillow to pay $775,000 in 24 equal payments beginning in April of this year. However, according to the lawsuit, MyPillow has only paid a portion of the settlement—$64,583.34—with the last payment being received on June 6. DHL claims that on July 2, it informed MyPillow that it was in default. The amount sought in the complaint is $799,925.59, plus legal expenses and interest.

Lindell said to The Associated Press on Thursday that he was unaware of the nature of the case, but that his company had terminated its use of DHL more than a year prior due to a disagreement about shipments, which he said was DHL’s fault. For the “MyPillow Guy,” lawsuits and billing issues are nothing new.

Cash flow is negatively impacted

Two voting equipment companies are suing him for slander. Attorneys who had initially represented him in those instances left due to unpaid invoices.

Due to the credit crunch that occurred last year, MyPillow’s cash flow was negatively impacted when it lost Fox News as a significant advertising platform and experienced the withdrawal of several national retailers. A judge in February upheld a software developer’s $5 million arbitration award after the engineer contested facts that Lindell said.