SCIAN 492—Courier and parcel services

Where 492 sits

1. 48-49 Transport, mail and storage
2. 492 Courier and parcel services

Contains 2 narrower codes

• 4921 Foreign courier and parcel services
• 4922 Local courier and parcel services

Description

Economic units primarily engaged in providing courier and parcel services, consisting of the collection, transport and delivery, in the shortest possible time, within a metropolitan area or city, or between cities and metropolitan areas, national and international, of documents and small packages.

What 492 includes

• Establishments primarily engaged in home delivery services, such as food, clothing or medicine, requested through traditional methods or a website or application, and economic units dedicated to logistics services, which, among all their services, consider the predominant one to be courier and parcel delivery.

Cross-references for 492

• Establishments primarily engaged in the freight transportation service (484, Freight Transportation); to provide logistics services, which consist of the coordination of activities for the distribution of goods. These economic units carry out their activity by subcontracting services provided by other economic units—such as transportation, storage, packaging and labeling services, and customs procedures—and only coordinate or subcontract to third parties, they do not carry out the transportation, storage, etc. services (488, Transportation-related services); Establishments primarily engaged in the traditional mail service (491, Postal services), and the receipt of correspondence (561, Business support services).

492 in other systems