With the sealing and control measures taken in Shanghai, many residents have to protect their lives through substitute shopping and group buying. There are a lot of distributors sticking to their posts, insisting on the original price or even free delivery, but at the same time there are some distributors taking advantage of the opportunity to charge a high errand fee, triggering a great deal of concern.
Online, the news of "Shunfeng city rider's one-day income of 10067.75 yuan" was screened in social media. Subsequently, "a single price increase of 800 yuan", "6 kilometers on behalf of the dog food, 80 yuan a kilometer", "freight 5,000 yuan flash drone" and other news spread on the Internet. When I first saw this information, I thought that these deliverymen were simply taking advantage of the epidemic to make unethical money, but when you know more about the truth behind it, you can understand the reasonableness and inevitability behind the high-priced errand fees.
The high cost of running errands in Shanghai is largely due to the shortage of riders who are "rewarded" for their work.
It is understood that the third-party delivery platforms, including SF City, flash delivery, and so on, usually take the form of rider crowdsourcing. Get platform certification rider can take orders through the platform, the user such as the need to run errands in the city, pick up and delivery of pieces, on behalf of the purchase of services, you can through the small program or app order, and in the rider is nervous, you can through the "bounty" way to prioritize the rider to get the opportunity to take the order.
The number of riders with passes was already limited during Shanghai's closure period, and most residents were unable to go out, so shopping and same-city shipping needs could only be accomplished by the riders on the platforms mentioned above. Because of the contradiction between the lack of manpower and the urgent needs of Shanghai's citizens, some can only attract riders to take orders by offering rewards in order to have the items they need delivered to their doorstep as soon as possible.
This situation, because the price increase due to the supply is less than the demand is more of a transient reflection of marketization, because it will not become a long-term phenomenon, so it is a reasonable situation under special circumstances.
After all, if the supermarkets and stores have food available for delivery, the people can buy everywhere, and transportation manpower is guaranteed, who will still go to buy high-priced food, sky-high prices to hire an errand boy?
Two, the epidemic sealed control of Shanghai, as shuttle in the streets and alleys in the wind and rain riders, their hard work should be seen.
On the Internet, a rider said, in fact, outside the errand is very bitter, from the neighborhood out can not go back. Usually, they are all windy, the battery car with the car with a bunk and a box of instant noodles, sleeping in a bridge hole at night is the norm, hungry to chew a mouthful of instant noodles, eat a mouthful of hot buns are very not easy.
As riders, they supplemented Shanghai's lack of capacity and solved the problem of difficult logistics to households. That's a lot of money they're making at the risk of contracting the new coronavirus, and I think it's justified.
For the people, not only have to face the epidemic, but also have to bear the difficulty of buying food and high errand fees and other difficult problems, I hope that in addition to further standardization of courier fees and errand fees, the livelihood protection mechanism can be better improved.