The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution makes clear “the right of the people . . . to petition the government for a redress of grievances,” and the FedEx board of directors and senior management takes this very seriously. As a corporate citizen, we decided many years ago to engage openly in four areas of public policy that have strategic implications for our company and the more than half a million people who work for us: energy, the environment, trade and taxes.
Although FedEx is an American company focused mostly on…