Dear Sir/Madam,

Would you please provide us the information regarding producer price index about Postal, couriers and messengers activities:

1.Postal activities:
(1) What is the industry definition and scope of the survey?
(2) What is the weighting data used for the category?
(3) Which pricing method do you employ for this section (such as the direct use of prices of repeated services method) and whether this pricing method is to collect BtoAll index? How do you collect BtoB prices?

2. Couriers and messengers activities:
(1) What is the industry definition and scope of the survey? Does the coverage of services for which prices are collected is limited to the door to door transport?
(2) What is the weighting data used for the category?
(3) How do you distinguish the couriers and messengers activities from the Road freight transport? (with reference to the size of the transport vehicles in use or the weight/size of parcels?)
(4) Which pricing method do you employ for this section (such as the direct use of prices of repeated services method) and whether this pricing method is to collect BtoAll index? How do you collect BtoB prices?
(5) Are Restaurant meals order and delivery services included in the category? Then how do you investigate the section and decide the representative transaction specifications? Do you collect BtoB prices for this section and how to do?

3.Is there any further information or link about the two categories could provide?


Thank you for your time.
We look forward to receiving your reply.
Best Regards,
Yu Chen
Price Statistics Section, Department of Statistics
Directorate-General of Budget, Accounting and Statistics, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. (Taiwan) 
E-mail address: kk8850tw@dgbas.gov.tw