FedEx Ready to Deliver Harry Potter Magic Directly to Thousands of Amazon.com Customers; FedEx workers, planes, trucks poised to help make e-commerce history

Business Wire, June 20, 2003

Business Editors

MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2003

FedEx Corp. (NYSE:FDX) is putting the finishing touches on the transportation plan to deliver more than 250,000 copies of the highly anticipated new Harry Potter book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," to Amazon.com customers across the United States tomorrow, June 21.

The nationwide distribution is expected to be the largest single-day, e-commerce event in history and will bring the new Harry Potter books directly to the homes of Amazon.com customers on the first day the book is available to the public.

The FedEx Ground, FedEx Home Delivery and FedEx Express networks will carry out this carefully orchestrated delivery event. The precise delivery plans include:

-- About 20,000 FedEx Home Delivery contractors and FedEx Express

couriers;

-- About 130 regularly scheduled FedEx Express flights;

-- Thousands of FedEx Express and FedEx Ground delivery vans and

tractor-trailers;

-- Special sort operations at FedEx Express and FedEx Ground

facilities following transportation of the books from five

Amazon.com distribution centers across the United States.

"Using the strength of the FedEx family of companies, FedEx will provide the transportation solutions Amazon.com needs to satisfy the unprecedented demand for delivery of the newest installment in the Harry Potter phenomenon," said T. Michael Glenn, executive vice president, market development and corporate communications for FedEx Corp. "This distribution is another example of how FedEx provides the utmost reliability, depth of solutions and technological capabilities to extend peace of mind to our customers."

FedEx and Amazon.com have worked closely to coordinate the just-in-time delivery cycle for this shipment, leveraging FedEx supply-chain expertise and pre-selecting transportation routes for optimum efficiency.

FedEx is transporting the orders from the five Amazon.com distribution centers to FedEx hubs and terminals throughout the country by tractor-trailer and through 130 regularly scheduled FedEx Express flights.

FedEx will conduct special sorts at each hub and automated sort facility of the Harry Potter shipments that will then be transported to local FedEx terminals for delivery beginning at 8 a.m. EDT on Saturday.

FedEx integrated its industry-leading tracking information directly through the Amazon.com Web site to provide a seamless experience for Amazon.com customers from order to delivery. FedEx representatives also provided support at each Amazon.com distribution center to help facilitate any automated-shipping and package-processing needs.

This collaboration marks the second time that FedEx and Amazon.com have joined for a special, one-day distribution event for Harry Potter. In July 2000, FedEx distributed 250,000 orders of "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" directly to Amazon.com customers on the first day it was available to the public.

About FedEx:

With annual revenues of $22 billion, FedEx Corp. is the premier global provider of transportation, e-commerce and supply chain management services. The company offers integrated business solutions through a network of subsidiaries operating independently, including: FedEx Express, the world's largest express transportation company; FedEx Ground, North America's second largest provider of small-package ground delivery service; FedEx Freight, the largest U.S. provider of regional less-than-truckload freight services; FedEx Custom Critical, North America's largest provider of expedited time-critical shipments; and FedEx Trade Networks, North America's largest customs broker and a provider of international freight forwarding and trade facilitation services. FedEx ranked highest in the J. D. Power and Associates 2002 Small Package Delivery Service Business Customer Satisfaction Study(SM) in the categories of air, ground and international delivery services.

NOTE TO EDITORS/PRODUCERS: Please note a photo of the package sort will be available later in the afternoon via Business Wire in conjunction with this release.

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FEED DATE:  FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2003
FEED TIME:  3:30 - 3:45 PM ET
COORDINATES:  C_BAND: TELSTAR 6 (C) /TRANSPONDER 15/AUDIO 6.2 & 6.8
DL FREQ:  4000 (V)

RE_FEED DATE:  FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 2003
RE_FEED TIME:  8:00 - 8:15 PM ET
COORDINATES:  C_BAND: TELSTAR 6 (C) /TRANSPONDER 15/AUDIO 6.2 & 6.8
DL FREQ:  4000 (V)

RE-FEED DATE:  SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 2003
RE-FEED TIME:  2:00 - 2:30 PM ET (FED IN ROTATION)
COORDINATES:  C-BAND: TELSTAR 5 (C) /TRANSPONDER 19/AUDIO 6.2 & 6.8
DL FREQ:  4080 (V)

FORMAT:  Package TRT TBA
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