Source data

Selected postal and courier network and traffic indicators in Kenya, 2021 to 2025

Sources checked 11 November 2026

Traffic by yearPrivate courier traffic and Express Mail Service items

2021

Shared scale · 0 thousand items to 11,128 thousand items

Switch year to compare the five traffic measures. Network size and other postal activity appear in the table.

The 2025 figures are provisional. Office and operator rows count facilities or providers. Traffic rows are thousands of items.

							Source
Post offices	count	622	538	622	623	457	Source 1
Private courier outlets	count	901	1,030	1,045	1,130	1,158	Source 1
Licensed courier operators	count	288	305	333	348	351	Source 1
Private letter boxes installed	thousand	575	450	552	552	552	Source 1
Private letter boxes rented	thousand	399	368	154	360	360	Source 1
Private bags rented	count	560	560	530	560	560	Source 1
Express Mail Service items handled	thousand	1,594	1,624	1,502	1,290	1,198	Source 1
Private courier domestic letters	thousand	1,073	1,189	1,218	2,565	2,418	Source 1
Private courier domestic parcels	thousand	4,044	4,733	5,215	11,128	9,214	Source 1
Private courier outgoing international letters	thousand	1,404	1,736	1,651	679	47	Source 1
Private courier incoming international letters	thousand	387	438	435	231	105	Source 1
Registered and insured items posted	thousand	627	146	341	664	627	Source 1
Unregistered correspondence handled	thousand	900	661	1,009	7,623	7,021	Source 1
Parcels handled under the separate postal count	thousand	16	24	18	19	15	Source 1