rura data: Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) rw.rura.postal-items.quarterly quarterly

Postal & Courier Item Volumes.

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Quarterly counts of postal and courier items handled in Rwanda from Table 41 (Section 7) of the RURA ICT Sector Statistics Report, the second dataset drawn from the regulator's postal and courier sub-sector. The table is a cross-tab: rows are item types (domestic mails and packages, East African Community cross-border mails and packages, rest-of-world mails and packages, and Express Mail Service traffic) grouped into domestic, outbound, and inbound flows, while columns are the operator licence categories that carry them (public postal, international courier, regional courier, and domestic and inter-city courier operators). The clear pattern is the rise of domestic and inter-city couriers, whose share of every item handled has climbed steadily as parcel volumes grow. Each report is a single-quarter snapshot, so the series is assembled from the run of reports, preferring the most recent report for any restated quarter. RURA compiles the figures from licensed operator returns. One published figure is withheld here. For the domestic and inter-city courier column, RURA prints the sum of that column's domestic mails and domestic packages a second time, as both Express Mail Service Outbound and Express Mail Service Inbound. The identity holds exactly in every report from the third quarter of 2024 to the first quarter of 2026, and the report's own row totals include it. Outbound and inbound express traffic cannot be equal to each other and simultaneously equal to domestic mail plus packages, so those two cells are a subtotal that has leaked into rows it does not belong to, and publishing them under an Express Mail Service label would assert something the arithmetic contradicts. Express Mail Service figures for every other operator category are published as reported.

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POSTAL & COURIER

Domestic couriers now carry Rwanda's postal traffic: they moved 86% of the 628,033 mail and courier items handled in the first quarter of 2026, up from 75% a year earlier, as total volumes grew nearly a third.

Postal & courier items by operator licence category · items · quarterly, Sep 2024 to Mar 2026

SOURCE: Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority (RURA) · via Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Authority · Postal & Courier Item Volumes · Updated 2026-08-20

#	date	flow	item_type	operator_category	value	unit
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COLUMN	TYPE	DESCRIPTION	UNIT
date	date	Quarter-end date (e.g. 2026-03-31 for Q1 2026).	-
flow	string	Item flow section from the report: "domestic", "outbound", or "inbound".	-
item_type	string	Item type, e.g. "Domestic mails", "EAC outbound packages", "Express Mail Service Inbound".	-
operator_category	string	Operator licence category handling the items: "public_postal", "international_courier", "international_courier_inbound", "regional_courier", or "domestic_intercity_courier".	-
value	int64	Number of items of the given type handled by the operator category in the quarter.	-
unit	string	Always "items".	-

CITATION · APA 7

imibare contributors. (2026). Postal & Courier Item Volumes [Data set]. imibare. v2026-08-20. https://imibare.org/datasets/rw.rura.postal-items.quarterly