Delivery

Stories about the delivery business and the people in it. UPS men, bike messengers, FedEx dispatchers. Prologue: Host Ira Glass goes to the Federal Express hub at Memphis to watch 1.2 million pieces of overnight mail get sorted in one night and to talk to the adrenaline junkies in the FedEx Command Center. (5 minutes) Speed: Tony Starbucks, interviewed by Dierdre Dolan and Paul Tough. (7 minutes) Who You Meet: "Edison, New Jersey," a story about delivering pool tables from Junot Diaz's book Drown. (18 minutes) World Premiere: David Sedaris play, with Toby Wherry and Penelope Boyer. (13 minutes) Check Out the Package on That Guy: Nancy Updike and UPS Men. (6 minutes) Faith Shattered: This episode originally included a fifth act, a story by reporter Stephen Glass about boycotting FedEx, which we have removed because of questions about its truthfulness. The story is included in the transcript for reference.