List of Couriers in the UK

Last updated 21 October 2026

There are 11,910 couriers in the UK, one in every 742 UK companies. Most of them are small: three in four have one to four people, and only 26 firms employ 50 people or more. Half of all couriers are based in South East, Scotland, South West, North West and East of England. Below you find the largest couriers in the UK, the regions where they cluster, how many started this year and which are the oldest. The full list with addresses, phone numbers and email is in our UK company database or through the Companies House API.

11,910 companies indexed · Data counted on 21 October 2026

Companies11,9101 in742 UK companiesRegions12Largest regionSouth East 1,383Sole traders28%Employees1-4 (76%)Revenue$1M-$5M (46%)Email40%Phone85%Website83%

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Royal Mail Group LIMITEDRoyal Mail Group LIMITED

	Company Name	Country	City	Address 1	State/Province	Postal Code	Website	Founding Year	Yearly Revenue in U.S. Dollars	Employees Total	Business Legal Type - Description	Number of Companies in Group	Company Registration Number
1	Royal Mail Group LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Monument-aldgate-fenchurch Street-tower Hill	185 Farringdon Road	London	EC1A 1AA	royalmailwholesale.*****	2001	$10,370,347,030	126,811	Corporation	3347	04138203
2	Post Office LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Monument-aldgate-fenchurch Street-tower Hill	100 Wood Street	London	EC2V 7ER	corporate.*****	1987	$1,101,801,935	3,604	Corporation	4178	02154540
3	Express Air	Unitedkingdom	Colham Green	Isis 5 Horton Road Poyle	London	SL3 0DF	expressairsameday.*****	2013	$396,370,286	1,000	Proprietorship	N/A	N/A
4	Asendia UK LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Cranford	Unit 9	London	TW4 6NF	asendia.*****	2004	$240,746,228	338	Corporation	36144	05029372
5	Interlink Ireland LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Newtownabbey	5 Trench Road	Antrim and Newtownabbey	BT36 4TY	dpd.*****	1999	$212,800,220	550	Foreign company	36144	NF003451
6	Royal Mail Sameday	Unitedkingdom	Cardiff	Po Box 4219	Cardiff	CF14 8DH	N/A	2001	$155,478,084	400		N/A	N/A
7	Jersey Post	Unitedkingdom	Saint-hélier	Postal Headquarters	Saint Helier	JE1 1AA	N/A	1969	$151,797,981	400		N/A	N/A
8	Jersey Post LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Saint Saviour	Postal Headquarters, la Rue Grellier	Saint Saviour	JE2 7QS	N/A	1969	$134,271,967	350	Corporation	N/A	88764
9	Deutsche Post Global Mail (UK) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Dedworth	2-3 Green Business Centre	Windsor and Maidenhead	TW18 3AL	ukmail.*****	1987	$98,885,189	40	Corporation	6264	02104109
10	Groupe S E B	Unitedkingdom	Horton	Ditton Park	Windsor and Maidenhead	SL3 9LL	groupeseb.*****	2012	$56,924,242	150		N/A	N/A
11	Isle Of Man Post Office	Unitedkingdom	Strang	Finance Department Post Office	Braddan	IM2 1AA	iompost.*****	1973	$44,801,923	350		153	N/A
12	G S Yuasa	Unitedkingdom	Swindon	Unit 8	Swindon	SN3 5FB	gs-yuasa.*****	2011	$38,657,611	100	Proprietorship	N/A	N/A
13	Dhl Global Match (UK) LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Hayes	Danzas House	London	UB3 1HJ	N/A	2015	$38,205,400	151	Corporation	6264	02110134
14	H Forman & Son	Unitedkingdom	Bow	Forman Field	London	E3 2NT	formans.*****	2011	$37,949,495	100	Proprietorship	N/A	N/A
15	Interpost LTD.	Unitedkingdom	Slough	Slough Trading Estate	Slough	SL1 4RY	interpost.*****	1993	$29,328,899	2	Corporation	2018	02843789
16	Broad System	Unitedkingdom	Gerrards Cross	One Chalfont Park	Buckinghamshire	SL9 0GA	N/A	1994	$28,993,209	75	Proprietorship	N/A	N/A
17	Windwhistle Post Office	Unitedkingdom	Weston-super-mare	7 Loxton Road	North Somerset	BS23 4QX	postoffice.*****	1989	$26,854,392	70	Partnership of unknown type	N/A	N/A
18	Road Runner	Unitedkingdom	West Pottergate	6 Javelin Road	Norfolk	NR6 6HX	roadrunner-express.*****	2009	$25,127,447	65	Proprietorship	N/A	N/A
19	X D P	Unitedkingdom	Motherwell	Unit 1 Biggar Road Industrial Estate, Cleland	North Lanarkshire	ML1 5PB	xdp.*****	2011	$23,194,567	60		N/A	N/A
20	Luvata Welwyn Garden LTD	Unitedkingdom	Welwyn Garden City	Welwyn Garden City Delivery Office	Hertfordshire	AL7 1AA	luvata.*****	1992	$22,495,240	51	Corporation	398	02636865
21	Crawford Cars LIMITED	Unitedkingdom	Acton	Unit 8	London	W3 0TR	crawfords.*****	1985	$19,839,146	1	Corporation	N/A	03064934
22	Nyco Leaflet Distribution LTD	Unitedkingdom	Penraevon Industrial Estate	30 Torre Hill	Leeds, West Yorkshire	LS9 6JS	N/A	2015	$19,733,737	52	Corporation	N/A	09399916
23	Go-Betweens	Unitedkingdom	Holborn	Panther Ho	London	WC1X 0AP	gobetweenscouriers.*****	1979	$19,485,479	50	Proprietorship	N/A	N/A
24	UK Mail	Unitedkingdom	Ivybridge	Unit 2	Devon	PL21 9GE	ukmail.*****	1988	$19,181,709	50	Proprietorship	N/A	N/A
25	Northcourt Post Office	Unitedkingdom	Abingdon	39 Northcourt Road	Oxfordshire	OX14 1PJ	postoffice.*****	1977	$18,974,747	50	Proprietorship	N/A	N/A

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Couriers in the UK

11,910

21 October 2026

There are 11,910 couriers in the UK in our data (21 October 2026). That is one in every 742 UK companies. About 3 new firms are entered in the register every week this year (123 so far in 2026).

Structure

Single-site firms: 6,863 58%
Head offices: 39
Branch offices: 5,008

Classification

Our platform filter is the national code 53100, 53200.

1,732 of the 11,910 are Ltd and PLC (15%); 3,385 are sole traders. They come from Companies House and our UK register data, through the Companies House API.

Where in the UK?

South East has the most couriers in the UK (1,383), ahead of Scotland (1,248), South West (1,220), North West (1,211) and East of England (1,142). Together the five hold half of them. Relative to their size, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have the most: 1.6 to 1.8 times the national share.

Regions by number of firms

12 UK regions have at least one courier; 12 have ten or more; 0 have exactly one. Click a region to set the lens.

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Where they cluster

Couriers per 100 companies, in regions with at least 100 of them. The national share is 0.13. Wales has 1.8 times the national share.

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Dashed line: the national share. A filled dot is twice the national share or more.

Firm sizes in the UK

Of the 6,968 UK couriers with a known headcount, 5,308 (76%) have one to four people, 1,271 have five to nine, 363 have ten to 49 and 26 have 50 or more. Most firms turn over between $1 million and $5 million a year (3,189, 46%).

EU size bands · the grey line shows all UK companies

Micro under 106,579 94%
Small 10 to 49363 5%
Medium 50 to 24922 0.3%
Large 250+4 <0.1%

Grey line: the share among all UK companies (93% have under ten staff).

158

firms turn over more than $5 million a year; 44 more than $10 million.

123

firms were entered in 2026.

Couriers in South East

South East has 1,383 couriers, 0.1% of all 1,188,541 South East companies and 14% below the national share. Three in four South East firms have fewer than five people; 5 have 50 or more. 11 new firms were entered in 2026, 175 date from before 1990.

Size

1-4 staff: 609 · 77%
5-9: 133 · 17%
10-19: 39 · 5%
20-49: 8 · 1%
50+: 5 · 0.6%

Legal form

Sole traders: 398 · 29%
Partnerships: 155 · 11%
Ltd and PLC: 175 · 13%
Other or none: 655 · 47%

Of the UK total: 11.6%
Of all South East companies: 0.1%
Against the national share: 0.9×

New

Entered 2026 so far: 11
Entered 2025: 14
Of UK's 2026 entries: 8.9%

Old

Before 1990: 175 · 13%
1990 or later: 1,208 · 87%
Of UK's pre-1990 firms: 10.6%

Reachable

Email: 556 · 40%
Phone: 1,207 · 87%
Website: 1,181 · 85%

Revenue (USD)

Under $100K: 169 · 21%
$100K-$500K: 59 · 7%
$500K-$1M: 149 · 19%
$1M and more: 412 · 52%

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Largest couriers in the UK

The biggest firms by staff and by revenue, the largest in South East, the biggest newcomers of 2026 and the oldest firms. Click a name for the record.

Royal Mail Group is the largest courier in the UK by headcount. 26 firms employ 50 people or more; 14 employ 100 or more.

1London126,811 staff
2London1,000 staff
3Coventry · public body747 staff
4Antrim and NewtownabbeyForeign company550 staff
5London338 staff
6London151 staff
7Windsor and Maidenhead150 staff
8Slough121 staff
9Lisburn and Castlereagh101 staff
10Swindon100 staff

By employee size · 6,968 firms with a known headcount

Employees	Firms	%
1-4	5,308	76%
5-9	1,271	18%
10-19	291	4%
20-49	72	1%
50-99	12	0.2%
100-199	5	<0.1%
200-499	5	<0.1%
500-999	2	<0.1%
1,000+	2	<0.1%

76% have 1 to 4 people; 72 have 20 to 49; 26 have 50 or more.

By yearly revenue (USD)

Revenue	Firms	%
< $100K	1,865	27%
$100K-$500K	509	7%
$500K-$1M	1,181	17%
$1M-$5M	3,189	46%
$5M-$10M	114	2%
$10M-$50M	34	0.5%
$50M-$100M	2	<0.1%
$100M-$500M	6	<0.1%
$500M+	2	<0.1%

46% between $1 million and $5 million; 3,189 between $1M and $5M; 158 above $5M.

Newcomers in the UK in 2026

123 couriers were entered in the UK register so far in 2026, about 3 a week, after 236 in 2025. The UK as a whole saw 534,395 new companies in 2026, so this industry takes <0.1% of the inflow.

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123 of this year's 123 are Ltd and PLC.

The biggest newcomers of 2026

The year is the register entry; an established firm that changes legal form appears as new.

1Birmingham2 staff
2North Northamptonshire2 staff
3Lincolnshire2 staff
4Lincolnshire2 staff
5Birmingham2 staff

Sole traders or Ltd: how they are organised

Three in ten UK couriers work as sole traders, against 7% of all UK companies. Only one firm in seven is a Ltd or PLC.

Sole traders3,38528%
Partnerships (partnerships and LLPs)1,34011%
Ltd and PLC1,73215%
No form on record or other5,45346%

Single-site: 58%
Head offices: 39
Branches: 5,008

All UK companies: 7% sole traders, 3% partnerships, 62% Ltd and PLC.

How reachable are they?

Couriers are easier to reach than the average UK company: 85% list a phone number and 83% a website.

Email4,757 40%
Phone10,179 85%
Website9,863 83%

Grey line: all UK companies (email 15%, phone 30%, website 30%).

The full list with these fields is in our UK company database.

How they compare

Next to related industries

There are 3 logistics companies for every courier in the UK.

Industry	Firms	Website	1-4 staff
Logistics Companies	41,004	35%	76%
Taxi Companies	37,314	37%	83%
Couriers	11,910	83%	45%
Waste Management Companies	8,894	44%	80%
Storage Companies	5,457	22%	90%
Bus Companies	2,213	53%	52%

In other countries

The UK has more couriers than Belgium or Sweden.

Country	Firms	Per 1,000 cos.
The UK	11,910	1.3
Belgium	7,385	3.1
Sweden	224	0.1
The Netherlands	122	0.0

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The oldest firms in the UK

Our data holds 10 UK couriers from before 1900, 109 from before 1950 and 1,649 from before 1990.

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1. Cambridgeshire
1850
1. Lincolnshire
1880
1. London
1888
1. East Ayrshire
1890
1. Manchester
1892
1. Hampshire

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1,649

UK couriers date from before 1990

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were entered in 1990

Frequently asked questions

How many couriers are there in the UK?

There are 11,910 couriers in the UK in our data, counted on 21 October 2026. That is one in every 742 UK companies.

Which is the largest courier in the UK?

Royal Mail Group in London, with 126,811 staff.

Which UK region has the most couriers?

South East, with 1,383, ahead of Scotland (1,248), South West (1,220), North West (1,211) and East of England (1,142). Relative to its size, Wales has the most: 1.8 times the national share.

How many couriers are there in South East?

1,383, which is 0.1% of all 1,188,541 South East companies and 14% below the national share.

How big is a typical courier?

Small. 76% of the 6,968 firms with a known headcount have one to four people; 26 have 50 or more. Most turn over between $1 million and $5 million a year.

Are UK couriers sole traders or companies?

Three in ten (3,385) are sole traders, 11% are partnerships and 15% (1,732) are Ltd and PLC.

How many couriers started in 2026?

123 were entered in the UK register so far in 2026, after 236 in 2025. 123 of them are Ltd and PLC.

What is the oldest courier in the UK?

Swavesey Post Office in Cambridgeshire, 1840, followed by Fulstow Community Primary School Fund in Lincolnshire (1850) and The Royal Tournament in London (1880). 10 firms date from before 1900.

Which industry code covers couriers?

Our platform filters them on the national code 53100 and 53200.

Can I download the full list?

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