Is a courier a carrier?

A courier is a carrier working in the parcel and express segment. The legal role is identical — a courier undertakes to transport goods under a contract of carriage and carries liability for them in transit. What differs is the service structure: shorter transit commitments, per-parcel liability terms rather than weight-based freight caps, and networks built around volume rather than individual loads.

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