Posted on 10/30/2018 1:16:40 PM PDT by Revel
FedEx has cut ties with the National Rifle Association, eight months after it first received calls to do so.
The shipping company confirmed to Reuters on Tuesday that it is ending its partnership, which offered discounts to members of the gun-rights lobby group.
The move comes days after 11 people were killed in a shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue. FedEx, however, told Reuters that its decision to end the discount program was unrelated to the shooting, citing business reasons for the move.
FedEx was one of several companies that faced pressure earlier this year to end partnerships with the NRA, following February's mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.
Several companies, including airlines, car rental companies and banks, ended their discount programs for NRA members, but FedEx said it would not “deny service or discriminate against any legal entity regardless of their policy positions or political views.”
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Hello, UPS.
>>>but FedEx said it would not “deny service or discriminate against any legal entity regardless of their policy positions or political views.”<<<
That’s awfully white of them.
The corporate world is full of this PC. They’re always the last ones to figure it out. They do nothing but follow fads.
I would like to say screw fedex but half of our family business is selling fedex shipping. Sometimes you have to suck it up.
Fedex = losers. Now they take things to the Post Office for delivery. Dumb
UPS it is.
It was stupid to offer it in the first place
Anyone who can fog a mirror can get a discount with fedex, it isn’t exactly a secret, only fools pay their retail price.
FED-EX... to be avoided as much as possible. Smells like commies in the boardroom.
hello, other shipping companies.
Goodbye, FedEx!
Hello, UPS.
They cost more and they suck
Plus they are union, so you get to support commie democrats.
Post office is even worse
That is called “smart post” only large sellers like Amazon, and large ebay sellers do that. UPS offers a similar service, but I can’t remember what it is called.
Problem is thus:
Corporate marketing departments are staffed by Millenial female social media addicts who graduated from Liberal brainwashing universities. They tell the CEO that the sky is falling after five angry tweets, and the CEO’s believe them and react accordingly.
That is where I stayed.
Ok. Bye Fed Ex.
FED-EX... to be avoided as much as possible. Smells like commies in the boardroom.
Or business men who don’t want to associate their company with a political organization.
Companies are stupid to do this in the first place
Remember when one of the big air lines got rid of the NRA discount? Only 5 people over 10 years ever used it. Heck, most people didn’t even know it existed and the discount wasn’t anything better you could find online.
This is just silly virtue signalling, on all sides
If it’s a choice between snail mail and FedEx, from now on I’m using snail mail.
Brilliant move to make just before Christmas (/s).
Then the smart thing for FedEx to have done was end its discount program.
This is from February: UPS (UPS) said in a statement Wednesday that it is not a sponsor of the NRA and that it does not offer a special discount for NRA members.
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