With the Spring Festival approaching, recently, the Internet began to circulate a 'Spring Festival holiday schedule', which lists the major courier companies stop receiving the shipment date.
In this regard, the Beijing News reporter to verify a number of courier companies, the other said the Spring Festival will not stop courier business, but individual courier companies will rise courier prices. Beijing News reporter? Yang Li
Parts of the express mail aging will be affected
According to the Beijing News reporter confirmation, SF, Zhongtong, Shen Tong, tact, rhyme, Best, Jingdong logistics, Suning logistics and other courier companies express delivery service throughout the year, the distribution center during the Spring Festival duty on duty, the outlets are also arranged The duty system, and will arrange for couriers to take a rest.
According to the person in charge of express delivery network management, Express will make an estimate based on the actual situation of the whole country's business during the Spring Festival. Based on the normalized data of outlets and reasonable arrangement of staff on duty during the Spring Festival, The actual situation of the implementation of this policy.
Rhyme express official response, during the Spring Festival will insist on normal operation.Headquarters will set up during the Spring Festival courier service operations group 'coordination and command of the whole network courier service, the entire network of provincial companies, distribution centers and outlets have been based on the volume of business during the Spring Festival Forecast prepared well at the same time, will be related to the region's steam transportation, aviation lines to adjust the courier will be affected in some areas.
In addition, the Group responded to the official during the Spring Festival did not fight, the distribution center shift duty, outlets, customer service also arranged a shift system .Jingdong said that during the Spring Festival can be the same as usual, the same as the distribution of logistics and delivery.In addition, Jingdong National Customer Service Center will also be 24 hours normal operation.Suning Logistics is playing a 'store does not fight, online and offline business as usual, after-sales rest, logistics keep shipping' slogan.
A small number of express delivery companies will increase the surcharge
Although the courier service will not stop during the Spring Festival, but the price will usher in the float.
Rhyme official said that taking into account the volume of business during the Spring Festival, costs and other factors, each ticket with the Spring Festival last year, like, will continue to charge 10 yuan service charge.
EMS and SF Express said that during the Spring Festival this year, the specific service fee will be released in the form of client's report. According to the experience in previous years, EMS and SF will charge about 10 yuan in previous years.
Zhongtong, tact and BES Express said that they have not yet received notice of an increase in fees yet, Shen Tong said the prices are basically unchanged.
Freight increases also affect the commodity prices.A veteran electricity supplier sellers told reporters that the rising freight rates on the relatively high price of goods shops relatively small, because the profit is relatively high; and rely on '10 yuan package ', puerile Affected shops is larger.
The reporter contacted several online shop merchants, many of them said the courier during the Spring Festival prices will rise, there are some businesses that will not be shipped when the courier.
A businessman in Hebei told reporters that it is recommended that users buy as soon as possible, after February 6 SF delivery costs will rise 20 yuan.
For businesses refusing to ship during the Spring Festival, Xu Yong, chief consultant of Express Logistics Consulting Network, explained that the increase of 10 yuan during the Spring Festival delivery fee has risen by about 50% for individual consumers and has risen for businesses Three to four times, 'many businesses make is the logistics difference, so (express) prices rather he would rather not sell.'
In Xu Yong's opinion, under the environment of fierce competition in express delivery industry, courier companies have all played the mouth of "Chinese New Year does not fight," but due to the sharp drop in express mail volume during the Spring Festival, this leads to a sharp increase in the cost of a single piece. Most courier practitioners are non-local staff, during the Spring Festival, courier companies will enter the watch mode.Courier belongs to the market pricing, under the influence of many factors, express delivery companies will increase the price.
'Express companies are losing money during the Spring Festival,' said Xu Yong, rising prices do not cover operating costs due to the current market for express prices are still very sensitive, once the courier companies will cost increases, many users no longer sent. The reason why the courier companies said they did not fight, but also forced by competitive pressure.