Following Zhongtong, Shentong, Best and Yuantong also issued a statement that the company's express transit in Beijing and dispatch timeliness has been affected.
On Nov. 23, Best Express and Yuantong Express issued a "Notice to Customers" on their official websites, saying that on Nov. 20, the Beijing Municipal Commission of Work Safety issued the "Notice of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Work Safety on the Special Action of Conducting Large-scale Exhaustive Investigation, Cleaning and Rectification of Hidden Dangers in Safety" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"). Both express companies said that their Beijing branch outlets will actively cooperate with this special action. During this period, the transit and delivery time of express mail arriving in Beijing will be affected to a certain extent.
The day before, China Express and Shentong Express also issued a similarly worded notice to customers. At present, SF, Rhyme Express and other courier companies have not yet publicly responded to this.
"Notice" pointed out that since Beijing entered the fall and winter, the security situation is grim. With the consent of the municipal government, the Beijing Municipal Safety Committee decided to start from November 20, 2017, to carry out a 40-day special operation in the city to investigate, clean up and rectify hidden safety problems.
The Notice makes it clear that the scope of the special action of large-scale investigation, cleaning and remediation of hidden safety hazards is all areas, all industrial fields and all types of enterprises in Beijing. Cleanup and rectification of key areas include: 1. to the capital airport, the western suburbs of the airport, the urban sub-center as the core of the radiation surrounding, around the color steel plate building, factories and warehouses, warehousing and logistics, wholesale markets, such as carrying out investigation and rectification; 2. to Tiananmen Square, Zhongnanhai as the core of the radiation to the entire political center area, around the street food and drink, stores, cultural relics and ancient buildings, old bungalow areas, large roofs, such as silos, carry out investigation and rectification; 3. to the Urban and rural areas as the core, around the rental apartments, rental compounds, to be dismantled or demolition sites, colorful steel buildings, factories, factories, warehouses, warehousing and logistics, automobile parts city, wholesale markets, etc. to carry out inventory and rectification.
Previously, a netizen said, a number of courier companies located in Beijing Shunyi District, Daxing District, Tongzhou District, the transfer warehouse and outlets are affected to varying degrees.
Shunfeng distribution center in Shunyi District to see the distribution center is functioning normally, there are several vans from the distribution center to deliveries, staff busy in and out. A SF staff told reporters, and did not hear the news that the transfer warehouse was shut down because of a major inspection, the distribution center is still in the normal issue of goods.
In addition, the visit to understand that the nearby Shentong Express transit warehouse is also running normally.
However, Shentong Express is located in Shunyi, an outlet has been closed for several days, the outlet around the rest of the several small stores have also been closed.
The shuttered Shentong outlet.
Walking around, the reporter found that there are still nearby express outlets of Yuantong and SF, but they are functioning normally, and many couriers are busy carrying express. Yuantong staff said, will try to cooperate with the government requirements, the outlets are still normal delivery.
The impact on courier outlets in each district does not seem to be consistent.
Shunfeng is located in Daxing District, a branch of the staff told reporters that in recent days, if the delivery of important documents, do not choose the courier, sending time is not certain.
And SF is located in Chaoyang District, a branch of the staff said that the current normal collection and delivery, "may be Daxing side of the impact of it, we have not yet received notice."
"This special action not only involves the logistics industry, but also involves the catering industry, real estate agents, group tenants, community maintenance and many other industries." Zhao Xiaomin, CEO of Guanxiao Enterprises and an expert in express delivery, told the surging news reporter that at present, those affected are mainly the outlets of express delivery companies located in Shunyi, Tongzhou and Daxing. Individual outlets in the city have also been affected, "after all, this is a citywide level of rectification."
Zhao Xiaomin pointed out that the courier industry in the past high-speed growth, a lot of companies signed the site does not have the conditions for commercial operations, according to the relevant documents, in this special action it will be difficult to avoid being rectified, "This special inspection is mainly affected by the franchise outlets, if it is a directly operated outlets, you can play the resources of the headquarters to increase investment, deployment of peripheral resources. Soon triaged out."
Zhao Xiaomin said, individual companies, such as SF, Yuantong in the local pre-investment of some of the larger, the impact of a little weaker, "If the pre-investment of a lot of money, bought a lot of sites, do a detailed pre-planning, this time by the impact of a little. If the site is completely leased and the use is non-conforming, it will be more affected this time."
For this rectification, Zhao Xiaomin said, from the perspective of the general environment, the special action in Wenzhou, which began in September, and Henan, which began in October, to shut down nearly 8,000 outlets with unsound formalities, as well as ten ministries and commissions previously issued a document, which is a series of actions to show that all regions and all levels of the safety level is very important.