Alan Graf talks COVID-19, e-commerce's rise, postal reform, Amazon and presidential politics as he winds down 41-year career at Memphis-based delivery giant.

FedEx provided transportation services for Direct Relief's shipment of $11 million in medicine, medical supplies and personal protective equipment to Lebanon.

Passenger traffic at Memphis International Airport was about 125,000 in July, down 65% from a year ago but much improved from April when the pandemic crippled air travel.

The proposed Delivering for America Act would turn back the clock to Jan. 1, 2020 on changes that some critics contend are diluting U.S. Postal Service delivery results.

FedEx will charge more for residential deliveries from November into January as it handles holiday shipping volume amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.

Williams-Sonoma is hiring 200 for Memphis area distribution facilities and says it could need to add as many as 3,000 seasonal workers for the 2020 peak.

The 1 million-square-foot facility is one of six that Amazon has either opened or will soon open in the Memphis area.

FedEx shares have shot up over $200 in recent trading after languishing below $150 a share earlier this summer. Supply and demand is driving the growth.

Remains of lions, tigers and bears and more exotic creatures are part of a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service trove of items stopped from moving through the FedEx Express Memphis hub.

Proposed Port of Memphis link in a container-on-barges shipping network could yield billions in benefits, Memphis-Shelby County economic development officials say.

FedEx chief Frederick W. Smith said the company's response to COVID-19 included one of the largest efforts to move goods by air since the Berlin Airlift of 1948-1949.

FedEx's top leaders didn't get bonuses for the first time in 11 years as company earnings and income lagged behind targets in fiscal 2020.

National Transportation Safety Board concludes Wei Chen probably became disoriented, lost control of aircraft before 2018 fatal crash.

Robotic arms inducting packages into small-package sort at FedEx's Memphis world hub are a sign of things to come as a $1.55 billion hub modernization continues to unfold.

U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn and other lawmakers are backing a bill to stabilize a federal airport grant program amid an uneven recovery of air travel from COVID-19.

FedEx has tapped Jenny Robertson as its new senior vice president of integrated marketing and communications.

COVID-19 and a desire to improve cash flow have prompted FedEx to slow the pace of a $1.55 billion Memphis hub transformation. 

FedEx Express’ pilots union asked the company to suspend operations in Hong Kong because of “unacceptable risks for pilots related to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Amazon touts $15-an-hour minimum wage and immediate benefit-package availability as it begins ramping up a large item fulfillment center in Olive Branch, Mississippi.

Top Notch Security has been the subcontractor on airport security for 15 years. The new contract has different requirements, according to security changes coming to the airport.

The e-commerce giant will now operate more than 4 million square feet of facilities in the Memphis area.

With bids over budget, options could include re-bidding, scaling down the project or finding more funding.

FedEx and Plus One collaborated with Yaskawa America on new package-handling robotic arms that made their debut earlier this year at FedEx Express world hub in Memphis.

Strong industrial real estate activity happened in the Memphis market during April, May and June, in part because of the pandemic, not despite it. 

Four industrial robotic arms have been installed to load letter envelopes and small boxes onto conveyors at the FedEx Express world hub small package sorting system in Memphis.