Greg Schneider Washington Post Staff Writer The U.S. Postal Service said
yesterday that it has struck a seven-year, $6.3 billion alliance with FedEx
Corp. for air delivery of priority, express and first-class mail.
The U.S. Postal Service and FedEx Express have formed a business alliance based on air transportation and retail business agreements. Under this alliance, the Postal Service will buy space on FedEx airplanes to transport Express Mail, Priority Mail and First-Class Mail and FedEx will locate overnight service collection boxes at post offices nationwide
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