FedEx Cries Foul Over the USPS Push to Gain Market Share in E-Commerce Distribution

Because USPS has to deliver to every home six days a week, it can deliver a package to that home cheaper than FedEx, which only delivers to that home when it receives enough profit to do so. Maybe that’s why FedEx earned more than $2 billion in profit last year while USPS lost nearly $5 billion.

Like UPS, FedEx complained that secrecy surrounding USPS’s “Competitive Products” makes it impossible to prove that USPS’s proposal is contrary to law.

UPS and FedEx also agree that USPS’s Competitive Products should bear more than 5.5 percent of the agency’s institutional costs now that they represent