Enchanted Fedex

[XFILED]

Awwww thee Enchanted Fedex who is Green for the world....This commercial cracks me up.....We all know how true fairy tales are...

[MrFedEx]

Awwww thee Enchanted Fedex who is Green for the world....This commercial cracks me up.....We all know how true fairy tales are...

When I first saw this the miniscule number of green vehicles in the FedEx fleet immediately came to mind. I also wondered how a cargo jet could ever be green, even if it burned panda crap for fuel. FedEx has made a very small investment in green technology and then endlessly hyped the "fact" that they are a green company. How green is it to fly pandas all over the world with nothing else in the plane? Nothing could be further from the truth...FedEx is anti green, except for money.

This company is all about phony PR and lies....and pandas. Yep, pandas rock.

[code 019 at ur moms]

we have precisely two "low" emission diesel trucks at our 80+ vehicle station. the 300% increase in fuel costs at fedex over the last few years is coming out of the wage bill, they're not going to change a thing about the trucks they use or the support infrastructure for them.

[hypo hanna]

A hypothetical friend of mine who works in a hypothetical fedex express office of about 25 people told me this tale.
To help support paper recycling, instead of utilizing the cardboard boxes the new paper comes in to hold recycled paper, all employees were issued brand new plastic waste cans with neet little recycle symbols printed on the side.
First you get the oil out of the ground. Convert it to plastic. Send it to the manufacturer. Energy to blow mold the plastic. Ship the plastic to the distribution center. Then to the retailer. Then Fedex buys it to save the planet.
To quote Homer Simpson.....

DOH!

[UpstateNYUPSer]

I have been trying to get my center to start recycling. It is amazing how much paper and other recyclable materials we throw away. Our local trash hauleer offers zero sort recycling but when I asked my CM about it he said that the decision would have to be made at the corporate level.

[STFXG]

Our station recycles. Ground superiority I guess...

[MrFedEx]

A hypothetical friend of mine who works in a hypothetical fedex express office of about 25 people told me this tale.
To help support paper recycling, instead of utilizing the cardboard boxes the new paper comes in to hold recycled paper, all employees were issued brand new plastic waste cans with neet little recycle symbols printed on the side.
First you get the oil out of the ground. Convert it to plastic. Send it to the manufacturer. Energy to blow mold the plastic. Ship the plastic to the distribution center. Then to the retailer. Then Fedex buys it to save the planet.
To quote Homer Simpson.....

DOH!

Hypothetically, how many thousands of pounds of pollutants does FedEx spew every day? Who is the second largest user of jet fuel in the world? Why that would be FedEx. And jets are one of the biggest causes of both global warming and destruction of the ozone layer. How many fuel-efficient vehicles are there in our fleet? Not many. How many that are alternatively-fueled? Not many.

Hypothetically, of course, FedEx is lying about being green. They are light years away from being even somewhere on the light spectrum close to green. Surprising? Not really.

[STFXG]

Their carbon footprint will be significantly reduced with cutting down the number of vehicles on the road. And switching from bread trucks to sprinters. Less jet fuel will be used when all the volume shifts over to ground. New more fuel efficient jets... All seem like a step in the right direction!

[vantexan]

Hypothetically, how many thousands of pounds of pollutants does FedEx spew every day? Who is the second largest user of jet fuel in the world? Why that would be FedEx. And jets are one of the biggest causes of both global warming and destruction of the ozone layer. How many fuel-efficient vehicles are there in our fleet? Not many. How many that are alternatively-fueled? Not many.

Hypothetically, of course, FedEx is lying about being green. They are light years away from being even somewhere on the light spectrum close to green. Surprising? Not really.

But you can't attack them for not paying you enough and attack them for having a large fleet of jets too. Can't have it both ways. I'm not attacking you, but this argument is fallacious. We work for the world's largest overnight delivery service by choice. That makes us culpable in the polluting. You are literally saying how dare they pollute the planet and where's my paycheck?

[vantexan]

Their carbon footprint will be significantly reduced with cutting down the number of vehicles on the road. And switching from bread trucks to sprinters. Less jet fuel will be used when all the volume shifts over to ground. New more fuel efficient jets... All seem like a step in the right direction!

Meanwhile China keeps building coal fired electric plants. We can do everything perfect here and in the long run we're still screwed. P.S. We'll never do everything perfect here.