ABC News has a nice piece online today about FedEx’s biggest night, coming up later this week.
Here’s a sample: You think Santa has a hard job delivering millions of packages on a single night? Well, he only does it once a year. FedEx does it every day.
FedEx is constantly moving packages around the world. At any given moment a container of fresh fish from Japan might be heading to a sushi restaurant in New York while a crate of car parts from Detroit travels to a mechanic in Houston.
Getting millions of packages from point A to point B — and having them arrive on time — is a mammoth challenge on the quietest of days. But no day compares to today, when those items are moving across the planet in addition to all of your Christmas gifts. It is expected to be the busiest shipping day in FedEx’s history …
Read it here.
