MetaFilter posts tagged with fedex

Here's the Beef

not_on_display — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:14:29 -0800

Joe Sedelmaier showed us where the beef is, and in doing so, revolutionized television advertising (aside from spawning a Clara Peller 7" and influencing the 1984 US elections). Here are some of Sedelmaier's greatest moments: Wendy's: Soviet Fashion Show | "Parts is Parts" • FedEx: "You can't count on anything these days!" | The Classic Speed Talker (John Moschitta, previously) • Pearson's Salted Nut Roll (with Godwin effect) • Fibreglas Pink (Canada) • Kaypro Computers • Alaska Airlines • Clara Peller in Jartran Truck Rental • Hayworth Furniture Systems • GMAC Financing • And for those missing individually, Youtuber jerry7242 has posted a reel of 30 minutes' worth of Joe Sedelmaier's commercials in four parts: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 (#4 includes an interview with Joe Sedelmaier) Enjoy! (Joe is also J.J. Sedelmaier's dad.)

Fast-talker

not_on_display — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:08:21 -0800

A sampling from John Moschitta Jr.'s oeuvre: Minute Rice • Northern Exposure Series Recap • The Theory of Evolution in One Minute • As "Blurr" on Transformers • As Supersonic Seymour on Garfield and Friends • On Sesame Street: 1 2 • As the Micro Machines guy: 1 2 • And the role that catapulted him to fame

Galactic Mail

jontyjago — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 07:16:47 -0800

Galactic Mail In the future, UPS & FedEx will race and fight in space. via

When Employees get Disgruntled

Oriole Adams — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 12:41:08 -0800

Imagine you're a pilot trying to control a jet when your skull has been smashed with a hammer and your co-workers are trying to subdue a madman with a speargun. That was the grisly scenario aboard FedEx Flight 705 in 1994 when a pilot on the verge of being fired hatched a bizarre plan to both wreak revenge on his employer and provide for his family afterward. The crew survived, but their careers as commerical aviators didn't.

Absolutely, positively getting there overnight

schoolgirl report — Mon, 15 May 2006 12:30:43 -0800

FedEx Thunderstorm Deviations. "FAA radar track sequence of a bank of FedEx aircraft getting into Memphis as thunderstorms pass over the airport" (Google video). I'm having Rip Off flashbacks.

FedEx Furniture

XQUZYPHYR — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:53:54 -0800

FedEx Furniture.

FedEx Police - [Cooperation] "up to and including the line on which we would be doing a disservice to our shareholders"

pwb503 — Tue, 31 May 2005 15:40:41 -0800

WSJ - "FedEx's newfound enthusiasm for a frontline role in the war on terror shows how the relationship between business and government has changed in the past few years. In some cases, these changes are blurring the division between private commerce and public law enforcement."

"FedEx... has granted customs inspectors access to the company's database of international shipments, which includes the name and address of a shipper, the package's origin and its final destination. The databases also include credit-card information and other payment details that the government is not entitled to solicit outside of a criminal investigation. "Our guys just love it," says one senior customs official overseeing inspections at international courier companies." [UPS, nor even the USPS will provide this much assistance to the DHS without a warrant.]

"Two years ago, after intense lobbying by FedEx of the Tennessee state legislature, the company was permitted to create a 10-man, state-recognized police force. FedEx police wear plain clothes and can investigate all types of crimes, request search warrants and make arrests on FedEx property."

Santa Lives

wanderingmind — Fri, 06 Dec 2002 10:17:06 -0800

Santa Claus, elusive jolly old elf, has finally been located by someone curious enough (in both senses of the word) to use FedEx to track him down. (The page I linked to here only tells half the story; click that link down on the left to get FedEx's tracking page.)

BarneyFifesBullet — Wed, 19 Sep 2001 10:42:02 -0800

Bill Maher calls U.S. cowardly; FedEx pulls ads from show It looks like that "Freedom of Speech" thing is too much for some people to handle. What do expect from a show like this? If you can't handle it, don't watch it.