The drivers alone probably cost more than $1&#x2F;mile, then you have gas and maintenance. FedEx had $45B revenue with $2B net income, not exactly huge margins.<p>Obviously there is more to package deliver than just the raw cost of getting a package from a local sorting center to the end of a rural driveway.<p>At the moment, a lot of the cheap rural shipping is being subsidized by the USPS.