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Article: FedEx, U.S. Postal Service Alliance Could Break Lock on Mailbox Access.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- September 19, 2000
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Sep. 20--ATLANTA--The real target of FedEx Corp.'s proposed alliance with the U.S. Postal Service could be the mailbox at the end of your driveway.
The Postal Service has claimed sole access to the nation's mailboxes since 1934 when a single sentence in the federal code granted the agency exclusive delivery rights. Private firms like FedEx have tried for years to break the lockout, but so far without success.
"The nation's system of mailboxes was built and paid for by mail recipients, not by the Postal Service," FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith told Congress last year. "Unless the law on mailbox access applies equally to all competitive products, the law ...