Forwarding activities in the field of postal services

Currently, there is no scientific justification for the legal nature of postal forwarding services, despite the fact that their existence is reflected in Article 1 of the Federal Law of June 30, 2003 No. 87-FZ «On Forwarding Activities». There are no unanimous opinions on the correlation of postal services with forwarding, regulated by the rules of Ch. 41 of the Civil Code of the Russian Federation. This constrains the development of legislation in this area of legal regulation and relevant segments of transport and communication markets. Purpose: to develop a scientific idea of the bases of legal regulation of forwarding activities in the field of postal services. Methods: empirical methods of comparison, description, interpretation; theoretical methods of formal and dialectical logic; specific scientific methods: legal modeling, legal-dogmatic and interpretation of legal norms. Results: the article proposes solutions to the problem of the correlation of postal services with forwarding activities. It is proved that at present there is no distinction between these types of services, especially in the case of sending parcels. It is proved that sending parcels cannot be a communication service because there is no information component necessary for communication. It is proposed to consider services related to the delivery of parcels as forwarding services in the field of postal communications. It is also proposed to legally distinguish this type of service and communication services and to formulate the generic concept of «postal service».