New FedEx Ground and USPS Arrangement

I was recently notified that a package was shipped DHL and it showed up in my mail box. Not sure how this all works. I was also under the impression that DHL was folding up in the USA.
BTW: I think DHL is owned by the German post office.
The USPS is on track to lose $7 billion this year so big changes are definitely coming. Only time will tell what those changes will be.

is this also for Canada?

REALLY wondering about FedX Ground anymore? Used to use them occassionally with no trouble at all...
In late May I ordered an industrial grade water pump (65 pounds) from a northern Chicago suburb; for home delivery to my rural address ~60 miles south of Chicago.
The thing took forever to show up. Note there is a local FedX office 1/2 mile west of here on the outskirts of town; their drivers have been here often enough to recognize me &/or wife on the street (it's a midsize community).
Eventually I received a call from a northwest Indiana FedX office (HUH?) requesting directions to the house for delivery. This has happened before; apparently they don't understand how to route via shortest path, but crossing state lines twice enroute seems insane. No response re: my query "why is my pump in Indiana when your local office is 1/2 mile away?".
I satirically asked if they knew how to search an address on Mapquest (more silence) apparently these Pet Rocks dunno about that either? Following my lengthy delivery instructions they finally got it here a couple of days later. Sheesh!!!
So now it has to go through the post office as well? May as well go through USPS Parcel Post; it'll probably be faster! Or resign myself back to risking the United Package Smashers. And we all know their infamous reputation for blaming the victim when they destroy something. Catch 22 all over again...

This comes as no surprise to me. Years ago FedEx & USPS started working together with Priority & Express mail.

I used to work for a postal contractor & would take a trailer full of Priority & Express directly to the airport once a day. This was in 2002/03. I'm pretty sure that particular contract was fairly new but they may have worked together before that too. I understand they move some First Class mail also. A lot of this came to be after 9/11, which restricted a lot of the mail which used to be carried by commercial airliner.

It'll prob. get to the point it's all the same company. Some of you might remember the rumored merger w/FedEx & UPS, which was going to be called FedUp.

This is nothing new. Shippers use it to cut costs in shipping to rural and super-rural areas where the post office is going anyway but it is not cost effective to send a Fedex truck 60 miles out of the metro area for a single package. My company used FedEx Smartpost for the last three years which is FedEx delivering packages to the USPS DDU (direct distribution unit - the local postal hub) for final delivery.

UPS does the same thing with UPS basic service which is the brown truck dropping packages at the local PO for final delivery.