531000 Postal activities under universal service obligation
A six-digit type of NOGA 2025, in division 53, Postal and courier activities.
Where it sits
- Section
- H Transportation and Storage
- Division
- 53 Postal and courier activities
- Group
- 531 Postal activities under universal service obligation
- Class
- 5310 Postal activities under universal service obligation
- Type
- 531000 Postal activities under universal service obligation
Its name in four languages
- Deutsch
- Postdienste von Universaldienstleistungsanbietern
- Français
- Activités de poste dans le cadre d’une obligation de service universel
- Italiano
- Attività postali con obbligo di servizio universale
- English
- Postal activities under universal service obligation
What it includes
- This type includes the activities of postal services operating under a universal service obligation by one or more designated universal service providers. The activities include use of the universal service infrastructure, including retail sale locations, sorting and processing facilities, and carrier routes to pick up and deliver mail. The delivery can include letter post, in other words, letters, postcards, printed papers (newspapers, periodicals, advertising items, and so on), small packets, goods or documents. Also included are other services necessary to support the universal service obligation.
- This type includes:
- pickup, sorting, transport and delivery (domestic (national) or international) of letter post and (mail-type) parcels and packages by postal services operating under a universal service obligation. One or more modes of transport may be involved and the activity may be carried out with either self-owned (private) transport or via public transport.
- collection of letter-mail and parcels from public letter boxes or from post offices
What it excludes
- postal giro, postal savings activities and money order activities, see 6419
NOGA 2008 codes it continues
Since the switch to NOGA 2025, companies coded under these NOGA 2008 types belong under 531000, in the share the BFS measured in its business register (BUR).
| NOGA 2008 | Share moved to 531000 |
|---|---|
| 531000 | 100% |
What a NOGA code is, and how to find a company's code
Company counts cover the 145,068 of 782,904 active companies in the commercial register that Prospex has coded so far, from their registered purpose and website, so they are a floor. Geneva is 93% coded, because its cantonal register publishes a code per company; the other cantons 11% so far. They are Prospex's codes, not the code the BFS assigns in its business register (BUR). Codes, labels and notes: Swiss Federal Statistical Office (BFS), NOGA 2025, through the I14Y interoperability platform and the KUBB coding tool.