Apart from the nationally available Correios, many worldwide logistics companies operate in Rio de Janeiro, The most popular ones among them being DHL and FedEx, mainly used when a parcel simply has to arrive on time, and Correios's conditions cannot, for any reason, be met.

For both services, however, it is necessary that the sender discovers and fills the CEP of the address on the package, right beside the actual correct address with all its complements - CEP stands for Código de Endereçamento Postal, the Brazilian equivalent of the ZIP code, a numeric code used by postal services to speed up the delivery since most of the address can be discovered just by the number alone.