What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| geospatial/movement | PUDO/locker network intermediaries and aggregators publishing drop-off point locators; carrier location APIs | Per access point (address, coordinates, opening hours), refreshed daily | public |
| registry/licensing/permits | National postal regulators (Ofcom, Bundesnetzagentur, ARCEP, ANACOM) registering postal service providers and intermediaries; customs… | Per registered operator/entity, updated as filed | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (SBS/LFS under NACE 53.30), company filings, LinkedIn/job-board scrapes for platform headcount | Annual per country x class; per-company headcount in filings | public |
| reviews & sentiment | Trustpilot, Google Reviews, app stores, consumer forums; regulator and ombudsman complaint statistics on postal intermediaries | Per review; complaints as monthly/quarterly aggregates per operator | public |
| financial filings | National company registers and stock exchanges for listed/large intermediaries and their parents; regulator revenue returns for registered… | Annual (some quarterly) per legal entity | public |
| pricing | Aggregator platforms and rate-comparison sites; carriers' published tariff sheets and surcharge schedules resold by rate-benchmarking… | Per carrier x service x weight-break x zone, updated with annual GRIs and… | purchasable |
| communications/marketing performance | Aggregator platforms' own marketing stacks; affiliate networks and comparison-site referral partners; ad-intelligence vendors (SimilarWeb… | Per campaign/channel/keyword, daily; site traffic monthly | purchasable |
| quality & compliance testing | Intermediaries' own SLA/on-time performance dashboards; independent delivery-performance benchmarkers (Parcel Perform, Metapack/Auctane… | Per carrier x service x lane, daily/weekly on-time and transit-time… | purchasable |
| transactional/sales | Parcel booking aggregators and resellers (Sendcloud, ShipStation, Parcel2Go, Easyship, ParcelHero), e-commerce shipping plugins… | Per shipment booking / per transaction (label purchase), aggregated monthly by… | partnership |
| inventory & supply chain | Intermediaries offering fulfilment-integration and returns portals; the e-commerce platforms and 3PLs they connect to | Per SKU x warehouse for connected merchants; per return authorisation | partnership |
| logistics & freight movement | Intermediation platforms holding label/manifest and tracking-event feeds pulled from carrier APIs; tracking aggregators (AfterShip… | Per shipment, per scan event (origin, transit, delivery attempt, POD) | partnership |
| booking/utilization/occupancy | Consolidators and freight-forwarding intermediaries managing pallet/container/air-ULD space; PUDO point capacity data held by network… | Per booking / per consolidated load; capacity fill rate per lane per departure | partnership |
| incident/safety/claims | Aggregator platforms and their parcel-insurance underwriters/brokers; carrier claims departments | Per claim (loss, damage, delay) linked to a shipment; monthly loss ratios per… | exclusive |
| customer demographics | Aggregator platforms (merchant account profiles, SME segment, sector, shipping volume band) and their e-commerce channel partners | Per merchant account; consignee postcode-level aggregates | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.