Data sources: Intermediation service activities for postal and courier activities
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.