After the Spring Festival, a number of courier outlets in Shanghai were burst by the media burst, Yuantong, Shentong and other courier companies appeared in varying degrees of parcel backlog. Yuantong customer service also said that there are currently 38 Yuantong sites in Shanghai to stop receiving packages. Some members of the public ran to the courier distribution points to pick up their own pieces.

Yuantong burst Mia as early as the end of the Spring Festival holiday felt, because it would have liked to mail Turkish handbills to the fans, but many times to hit the phone Yuantong is no one to answer, and in the past Yuantong customer service phone is a few minutes on the phone to place an order, things must be evil.

Yesterday, Jingdong CEO Liu Qiangdong publicly revealed the scars of the courier industry: this is a decade of high-speed growth of e-commerce and hidden tumors, the practitioners do not have five insurance a gold or five insurance a gold is pitifully small. Gengzhi Dong directly pointed out that some courier companies deduct delivery staff welfare.

The courier industry reshuffle is imminent, the rain is coming.

The past and present life of the courier

Courier companies have actually existed since ancient times, but in ancient times they were called dart boards.

But ancient transportation is not developed, cross-province delivery of goods by horse-drawn carts and oxcarts to several months, but also to prevent bandits and robbers dart, so the past dart board in addition to all the people are practicing martial arts people also have knives, guns and weapons to escort the dart. Cecilia Cheung in the "Hedong Lion's Roar" so able to fight is because of the dart board origin.

When e-commerce has not yet developed, there is only one courier company, which is the post office.

The Rise of Express Delivery

With the rise of Taobao, Jingdong and a host of other e-commerce companies, private courier companies have only begun to spring up. Even the circulation department of the newspaper will pick up courier packages from e-commerce companies in addition to delivering newspapers.

How big is the courier industry's cake? We have a colleague resigned from the newspaper to open a courier company, at first his wife is not optimistic, said the industry has no future, belonging to the dirty and poor no one to do the work.

As a result of catching the e-commerce dividend period, colleagues of the courier company rapidly growing, the wife simply resigned to help. Every month payroll is said to be a sack of money to the company to send.

But the development of the Internet today has been transformed by the barbaric growth to deep plowing fine. The dividends of the courier industry is also getting thinner and thinner.

Vicious competition

To be honest, I like to use the Roundtree, because cheap, SF mail within the city is 12 yuan to start receiving, Roundtree on the 7, 8 yuan to get it done, consumers certainly hope that the cheaper the better the service, so the rising courier company only low-cost collection. According to the data released by the CICC, express gross profit from the original 30% down to about 5% -10%.

Then again, the survival status of the courier boy. They generally do not study much and can only do some rough and heavy work. When I was in the newspaper, there was a rainstorm, even with a tent, the door of a row of courier mail soaking wet. There was also compensation for damage to objects.

Summer sunshine, long time in the outdoor receipt of mail is easy to heat stroke, even if riding an electric bicycle is also the risk of being caught by the city police.

Last time, a small boy from SF accidentally scratched a car in the neighborhood and was beaten, abused and slapped.

People are so angry that SF boss Wang Wei publicly are vocal: not to pursue in the end, I do not deserve to be the president of SF.

The wind and rain, the sun, winter and blowing cold wind, I have seen couriers frozen to the nose red, straight flow of snot is still there to take orders.

The long working hours are also a common problem in the courier industry. I remember when I worked overtime at the newspaper office until 7:00 or 8:00 p.m., I would go out and see the courier boy still organizing packages. His dinner was a boxed lunch.

The intensity of the work is not respected, and there is a lot of mobility in the industry, so it's not uncommon to see a new face in a few days.

The shutdown of courier companies and many people choose to stay at home after the Spring Festival also have a lot to do with the emergence of a shortage of courier boys.

Another point is that now send takeaway earn more money than send mail, because the major takeaway companies usually have venture capital subsidies, the courier's profit can only earn 1-2 yuan per single, compared to send takeaway can earn 5-8 yuan. Many courier boys have switched to delivery.

The rise and fall of any industry will go through the process of peak to shuffle, but there is a demand for the market. Perhaps this wave of shuffling will drive the treatment of courier boys to improve. After all, there are so many loser ladies waiting to chop.

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