Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport Maxim Liksutov said in an interview with Kommersant that 15 thousand couriers were no longer couriers “due to non-compliance with Moscow standards.”
Liksutov noted that in 2024, Moscow introduced a unified standard for the work of couriers, which includes requirements for appearance and condition of vehicles and bags.
“Compliance with the document is controlled by delivery services. Today we transmit data from the cameras to them, and if the courier is not dressed according to the rules, or if he has a dirty bike, or there is no number on the bag, the companies take action,” he added, adding: “There are already a lot of requests.”
Liksutov called on couriers on electric bikes who violate traffic rules to file a complaint with the traffic police. He said: “Most citizens have smart phones, and the couriers’ bikes have numbers, so violators can be identified immediately.” Relevant information, according to Moscow’s Deputy Mayor for Transport, is passed to delivery services, requiring them to process the complaint and take necessary action.
“Many violators, for example, after conducting an inspection, are forced to undergo further training on driving rules, and some of them are even ‘expelled’ from couriers. We have disconnected them from our databases, and they can no longer receive orders,” Liksutov said.
“Today, 15,000 couriers have stopped being couriers due to non-compliance with Moscow standards,” he stressed.
In Moscow, according to the Deputy Mayor of Transport, as of March 2026, there were 125 thousand couriers working. Compared to 2024, the number of couriers has increased by 25 thousand.
At the beginning of March, Liksutov said about 700,000 deliveries were being made daily in Moscow. According to expectations, he said in an interview with Kommersant. Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport, the number of daily deliveries by mail will increase to 1.5 million. “For this we will need about 300,000 couriers,” Liksutov said, adding that “it is now difficult to imagine where they will come from.” According to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Transport, a significant part of deliveries in the coming years will be carried out by delivery robots. He said that by 2030, according to city government projections, the number of delivery robots could grow from the current 200,000 to 20,000.