FedEx confirms Huawei mail ban as 'mistake' reignites Chinese ire

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By Alexander Whiteman

24/06/2019

FedEx was forced to apologise to Chinese electronics manufacturer Huawei after it returned one of the company’s packages undelivered. FedEx has blocked deliveries to addresses linked to Huawei and its associates, but in this instance, the package marked Huawei was destined for a writer at US publication PC Magazine. According to Reuters, FedEx reiterated the ban on deliveries to Huawei addresses but described this mix up as an “operational error”.

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