NYC was a crazy place in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. While many of us were grieving or in shock, others scrambled to make a quick buck (and/or get laid) off the tragedy. Within two days of the towers' collapse, for instance, you could buy T-shirts emblazoned with the words, "I CAN'T BELIEVE I GOT OUT!" But it wasn't just souvenir hawkers cashing in on 9/11; a former employee of FedEx claims managers created a system to blame their late deliveries on beefed-up security measures at government buildings. more ›

Are you wondering what happened to that desperately-needed package of hygiene products your mom promised she sent you weeks ago? Well, if you live in a building in Manhattan without a doorman or neighbor to sign for your package, it's probably stuck in the Bronx at a massive FedEx storing facility. But that's not in just any old corner of the Bronx: it's in the Fallujah section of the borough. more ›

; you can wait until 12/20 if you're sending it first-class and priority mail or until 12/23 if it's sent via express mail. And yesterday was also the busiest day of the year for FedEx (for Christmas delivery, you have until 12/17 to ship via FedEx Ground and until 12/23 via FedEx Express). more ›

WNBC reports a FedEx employee and another man are charged with violating federal firearms statutes for stealing guns from a FedEx facility and selling them out of a car. Cargo handler Patrick Dolan took 146 guns--shipped from Argentina to a NJ importer--from a conveyor belt and enlisted John Sozomenou to help him. Their plan unraveled when, per the Star-Ledger, "Jersey City residents complained to police in May that two white males were selling handguns at three different public housing complexes," so the feds set up a sting. Go concerned citizens! FedEx says Dolan was fired after his arrest in May ("It appears to be an isolated issue. We have very tight security procedures in place.") and the pair face up to 10 years in prison. more ›

New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly took a shot at the three men who hijacked a FedEx truck while posing as police by calling the case not so much an incident of police impersonation, as "criminal impersonation." The freight truck was found just hours after it was stolen with all of its contents intact. The robbers could not manage to open the locked containers in the trailer and just abandoned it in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The truck was boosted Thursday night on 47th St. and 11th Ave. when an SUV pulled in front of it and halted. The FedEx driver was forced into the car at gunpoint and driven around for a while before being dropped off in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at 1:30 am. more ›

- New Yorkers for Parks continue to give away free daffodils tomorrow. more ›