Fedex stole the USPS express mail contract (another golf course deal) from many cargo carriers, effectively putting 1500 guys on the street just before 9/11, who subsequently couldn't claim the extra benefits made available for the furloughed passenger guys who lost their job after 9/11. 1st class mail still rides on pax carriers, and a cargo carrier or two (Alpine Air, Kalitta ?) still have a mail contract where fedex doesn't have the service or they provide feeder service.
<---- me furloughed after fedex took the mail away. Half the fleet went to the desert, half the guys to the unemployment office