”Wickwire Gavin, P.C. Postal Industry Practice Group [PDF] announced the Top Ten U.S. Postal Service Contractors for Fiscal Year 2005. Ironically, FedEx – one of the Postal Service’s main competitors – takes the top supplier spot for the third year in a row. FedEx transports Express, Priority, and First Class Mail, earning postal revenues of $1.36 billion – triple the amount of the next largest supplier. David Hendel, the firm’s Postal Industry Practice Group leader noted that the agency’s focus on reducing purchasing expenditures seems to have increased the revenues.”

Top Ten USPS Suppliers in FY 2005 (PDF)

 Last year Traffic World reported

‘In a letter that had been kept confidential, FedEx wrote to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) that releasing revenue and volume information about its lucrative postal contract would bring the carrier and the USPS “commercial harm” and would delay mail delivery.’ The article also quotes attorney David P. Hendel, a critic of the contract, as saying ‘I think the Postal Service is embarrassed about how much they are paying FedEX in a document filed with Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) last year  wrote, “Confidential treatment has been requested for confidential commercial and financial information, pursuant to Rule 24b-2 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.”

- USPS Top Contracts and Suppliers 2003

- Postal Service Seeks Waiver For Submitting FedEx Agreement Data (4/9/05)