When It Roars, Go Indoors!

With an excited group of 100 enthusiastic, fired-up students from several schools in Philadelphia, and in the company of Lloyd Ayers, Fire Commissioner, City of Philadelphia and Tom Foley, CEO of the Red Cross Southeastern Pennsylvania Chapter, we wrapped up our series of "Race to Prepare: events with Red Cross, FedEx and our NASCAR team on Thursday, September 24th.

Making the Chase and I Need Your Help

Hey, Fans of FedEx Racing!  As you know we are once again in the Chase for the Sprint Cup - our fourth consecutive year - and I can tell you this entire #11 FedEx Racing team is looking forward to making 2009 our most successful season yet.Coming off a great win in Richmond, we have momentum on our side and when we take the green at New Hampshire this weekend, we will be right in the thick of a ten-week, 12-driver shootout for the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship.

Speedway Middle School Students get Green Flag as they "Race to Prepare" with NASCAR and Red Cross

We recently sponsored a disaster preparedness event with Red Cross, NASCAR and a large group of middle school students. When I was in middle school, my family moved to the Virgin Islands. Back then I was somewhat familiar with disaster preparedness - as we took hurricane season very seriously - but I was not familiar with NASCAR. While NASCAR drivers race at speeds exceeding 100 miles per hour and drive on high tech speedways, the top speed limit in the islands was 40 miles per hour and lines were painted on roads by a guy in a motorcycle sidecar with a bucket of paint and a brush!

Have Your Little Picasso Featured on Denny Hamlin’s Racing Helmet!

For the second year, FedEx is supporting March of Dimes by unveiling a new, co-branded paint scheme on the #11 FedEx Office Toyota Camry to promote the March for Babies in 2009. FedEx Driver Denny Hamlin, who will race the new paint scheme April 18, 2009, in Phoenix, needs a new racing helmet especially for this event. To help Denny find the perfect helmet, FedEx is conducting a design contest. If you are a FedEx team member with a child under the age of 12 who would like to win the chance to have his or her artwork featured on Denny’s helmet, we want to see those drawings!

Addressing Questions Regarding Advertising and Marketing Programs

I have had the opportunity to speak with many employees and stakeholders and read a number of the comments on this blog since our recent cost reductions announcement and I thought it was important to address questions that have been raised regarding our advertising and marketing programs.