FedExer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: FedExers
Etymology: From FedEx + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Davis said the domestic numbers may also have been boosted by the new Federal “FedExers” program, which is aimed at small shippers.
ref: 1993, Traffic World, volume 235, page 29:
text: Outsourcing can lead to surprising arrangements. In November 1990, Commodore Business Machines hired Federal Express to service its consumer products. If you call Commodore’s twenty-four-hour consumer-assistance number, the voice on the other end actually belongs to a FedEx employee (though you won’t know it), who will arrange for the machine to be picked up and replaced with a loaner the next morning (by another FedExer).
ref: 1994, William Bridges, “Where Have All the Jobs Gone?”, in JobShift: How to Prosper in a Workplace without Jobs, Reading, Mass.: Perseus Books, →ISBN, part one (The Late, Great Job), page 19:
text: In the hangar where FedExers sorted packages, our boxes, cylinders, and oversized envelopes cascaded down conveyor belts. […] All along the route, FedExers stood with their ubiquitous bar-code scanners to ensure the company would deliver our packages on time. […] This is the identity that every FedExer understands, the basis of the inspiring stories we hear about the company’s 98 percent rate of on-time delivery. […] Another FedExer rented a private airplane to make sure one very special package was delivered on time. […] Any FedExer who wants to know about how well any unit, or the company as a whole, is performing can consult statistical quality indicators (SQIs).
ref: 1998, Ken Baskin, Corporate DNA: Learning from Life, Woburn, Mass.: Butterworth-Heinemann, →ISBN, pages 1, 84, and 109:
text: There, Mark X. Zaleski, chief operating officer and a former FedEx exec, has recruited an additional half-dozen former FedExers for the service’s June launch. […] Indeed, former FedExers are bringing a lot more than shipping smarts to the E-commerce party.
ref: 1999 May 16, Joan O’C. Hamilton, “Quick, Fed Ex Me An Executive”, in BusinessWeek, archived from the original on 24 Jan 2024, pages 28 and 36:
text: Corking the wine for better days (or your next gag gift), you wait impatiently for another whole month before yet another winded FedExer delivers your next bottle of wine.
ref: 2000, Chris Sherman, “[Just Drink It] Wine Diaries: Wino of the Month Club”, in The Buzz on Wine, New York, N.Y.: Lebhar-Friedman Books, →ISBN, page 14:
text: FedEx’s Canadian chief joins growing list of former FedExers at e-commerce firms / FedEx Corp. lost another top executive to a dot-com company. Jon W. Slangerup, 50, president of Federal Express Canada, left to become chairman and chief executive officer of Electron Economy, Cupertino, Calif.
ref: 2000, “FedEx Exec Jumps”, in Traffic World, volume 262, page 25:
text: FedEx jumped in with both feet to help ensure success for Cast Away, the movie starring Tom Hanks as a marooned FedExer who never gives up.
ref: 2001, Michael Steel, “FedEx Flies High”, in National Journal, volume 33, page 556:
text: The FPA has been able to generate some unity among the fractious pilot group made up of fiercely loyal FedExers and unionized ex-Flying Tigers pilots.
ref: 2001, Traffic World and Traffic Bulletin, volume 265, page 20:
text: The Pope said, “Got a package here for a Severn Pratt at Cornerstone Construction.” / The scarecrow looked up from his screen and said, “You don’t look much like a FedEx-er.”
ref: 2001, Terry Devane, Uncommon Justice, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 294:
text: So many people have participated in the realization of this compilation of bamboo in so many Ways. / In gratitude, I thank / artists, artisans, architects, authors, bamboo believers, constructors, contractors, connectors, crafters, devotees, dwellers, designers, engineers, enthusiasts, experts, earthlinkage, FedExers, financial supporters (ABS, SoCal ABS, NCCABS, NEABS, EARF), furniture makers, friends, gregariousness of flowerings, growers, green doers, green gardeners, gardens, google, GS & GSP, […]
ref: 2002, Gale Beth Goldberg, “Acknowledgments”, in Bamboo Style, Salt Lake City, Ut.: Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, pages 8–9:
text: Whether you’re writing on assignment or spec, you’ll need to keep a regular schedule if you’re going to deliver the script. / "This whole thing is about delivery," [Larry] Gelbart says. "We’re really gifted UPS men. FedExers, you know, because it’s gotta be there. It’s gotta be there. So you don’t have a lot of time. But it’s enough time for us."
ref: 2002, Claudia Johnson, Matt Stevens, “The Space-Time Conundrum”, in Script Partners: What Makes Film and TV Writing Teams Work, Studio City, Calif.: Michael Wiese Productions, →ISBN, page 69:
text: As it was, the forward arc of her foot sent her stumbling into the elevator car just as a woman from FedEx was exiting. Kat danced around the FedExer with a clumsy little side step, muttering an apology under her breath.
ref: 2004, Karen Sandler, Chocolate Magic, Waterville, Me.: Wheeler Publishing, published 2005, →ISBN, pages 262–263:
text: A FedExer brings a package—and a hint of normalcy—to a New Orleans home.
ref: 2005, Fortune, volume 152, page 84:
text: At risk is a new America of mediocrity. An America of half companies, sinkholes and buckyballs who do not innovate, who no longer lead. A band of followers led by new-wave economic Pied Pipers. A new America of Wall Streeters, Googlers, Home Depoters, WalMarters, FedExers, eBayers, Amazon.dot comers, and government paper shufflers.
ref: 2006, James A. Cunningham, “[The Economy After 1981] The Direction of Manufacturing in America. Going. Going. Gone!”, in The Hollowing of America: America’s Flight from Manufacturing into a Perilous World of Economic Fantasy, Saratoga, Calif.: Dark Angel, Number Thirteen Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 57:
glosses: An employee of FedEx.