Larry Rutledge

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  www.sendrosesonline.com/affiliate/misc683b.html - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/1/2000    Last Visited: 2/10/2007  

  "We get some good ones," says Larry Rutledge, FedEx's manager of packaging design and development, who looks like everybody's favourite uncle.Rutledge has been doing this all his working life and he gets a kick out of talking about it.
  
  FedEx, he says, has shipped everything from ostrich eggs to tropical fish to caskets.His favourite all-time shipment was costumes for Walt Disney characters.

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  www.florabunda.com/affiliate/misc.asp?page=FLWRPWR - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/4/2001    Last Visited: 11/3/2001  

  We get some good ones , says Larry Rutledge , FedEx's manager of packaging design and development , who looks like everybody's favourite uncle.Rutledge has been doing this all his working life and he gets a kick out of talking about it.
  
  FedEx , he says , has shipped everything from ostrich eggs to tropical fish to caskets.His favourite all-time shipment was costumes for Walt Disney characters.For that one , bird seed had to be used for insulation because it has special properties that make it ideally suited to absorb shock.
  
  Some of the most intense packaging work is done for computers , especially laptops , which must be able to absorb all kinds of impact while in transit , and flowers , which are not only fragile but perishable.
  
  FedEx has even developed a special package for shipping flowers complete with wet-ice packets and specially designed boxes for everything from seedling plants to complete bouquets , like Thiessen's.

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  www.canadiancitiesflowers.com/affiliate/misc.asp?page=F - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 9/25/2001    Last Visited: 11/1/2002  

  "We get some good ones," says Larry Rutledge, FedEx's manager of packaging design and development, who looks like everybody's favourite uncle.Rutledge has been doing this all his working life and he gets a kick out of talking about it.
  
  FedEx, he says, has shipped everything from ostrich eggs to tropical fish to caskets.His favourite all-time shipment was costumes for Walt Disney characters.For that one, bird seed had to be used for insulation because it has special properties that make it ideally suited to absorb shock.
  
  Some of the most intense packaging work is done for computers, especially laptops, which must be able to absorb all kinds of impact while in transit, and flowers, which are not only fragile but perishable.
  
  FedEx has even developed a special package for shipping flowers complete with wet-ice packets and specially designed boxes for everything from seedling plants to complete bouquets, like Thiessen's.

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  www.rosepetals123.com/affiliate/misc.asp?page=FLWRPWR - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/1/2000    Last Visited: 1/20/2004  

  "We get some good ones," says Larry Rutledge, FedEx's manager of packaging design and development, who looks like everybody's favourite uncle.Rutledge has been doing this all his working life and he gets a kick out of talking about it.
  
  FedEx, he says, has shipped everything from ostrich eggs to tropical fish to caskets.His favourite all-time shipment was costumes for Walt Disney characters.

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  Ambassadair Travel Club - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/1/2000    Last Visited: 7/7/2003  

  "Shipping's a real challenge for a person on the road," FedEx Packaging Lab manager Larry Rutledge says, "but we're pretty much prepared for it."

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  Dimensions.03 | Program Schedule - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/7/2002    Last Visited: 8/27/2003  

  Larry Rutledge, FedEx Express

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  ExpandOS Package Cushioning Alternative to Foams and... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 12/16/2005    Last Visited: 11/22/2006  

  FedEx's Larry Rutledge said: "I believe we have accomplished something significant today…I have not seen this [toilet] product pass this test with most other packaging materials".Rutledge continued, "ExpandOS has exhibited some very intriguing properties and I am very excited to find more applications."

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  ExpandOS Package Cushioning Alternative to Foams and... - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/24/2005    Last Visited: 12/3/2007  

  Certainly we felt confident enough to pick up the gauntlet thrown down by Fedex's Larry Rutledge, but the description of the test seemed brutal."
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  Carefully inspected by FedEx's Larry Rutledge
  
  Rutledge continued, "This product has exhibited some very intriguing properties and I am very excited to find more applications."

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  Flowers - Grower Fresh Roses & Bouquets! - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 2/1/2000    Last Visited: 8/31/2006  

  "We get some good ones," says Larry Rutledge, FedEx's manager of packaging design and development, who looks like everybody's favourite uncle.Rutledge has been doing this all his working life and he gets a kick out of talking about it.
  
  FedEx, he says, has shipped everything from ostrich eggs to tropical fish to caskets.His favourite all-time shipment was costumes for Walt Disney characters.

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  ISTA's Officers & Directors - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 7/3/2008    Last Visited: 7/3/2008  

  Larry RutledgeFederal Express

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