USPS has a legal monopoly on letter service, save for "extremely urgent material". All private document delivery must therefore be Express-class. It's not reaso

USPS has a legal monopoly on letter service, save for "extremely urgent material". All private document delivery must therefore be Express-class. It's not reasonable to compare FexEx Express to USPS First Class. USPS Express and FedEx Overnight for documents are essentially the same price, even though FedEx has a higher standard of service. (Which is not surprising, because FedEx runs the backbone of USPS Express.) FedEx and UPS parcel prices generally beat USPS above a certain fairly small weight, even at retail prices. I'm happy to have USPS around, and I do a lot of business with them as they're the better option in certain circumstances, but let's not pretend their pricing is particularly magical.