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is one more thing you need to bring tomorrow (14th). On August 14th, it is the'day without courier'. Due to the coronavirus outbreak, there have been many courier workers who are unable to take a rest properly and are chased by work as the delivery volume has increased significantly. Some people died while working, so the courier union and the company decided to take a day off delivery tomorrow.

How did I work, so I had to make it until such a day, and there are also holidays. Then, reporters Hee-won Je and Deok-ki Yoo will tell you when the courier I ordered will come.

<Reporter Je Hee-won>

[Kim Gyeong- hwan/Courier: Now the time is (morning) 6:7. I'm on the way to sorting.]

Even if I leave this early, the morning time passes only for the distribution center to sort out the packages for that day.

[(How many shipments do you need to ship today?) About 270~280 today.] It

is a day when the quantity is low.

Delivery starts at around 12 noon, and the days of skipping lunch have increased.

[(If you don't run like this, you can't complete the delivery, so you have to keep running?) Yes, because it ends late.] In a

hurry, the stairs skip by two or three spaces.

In less than 30 minutes of shipping, I often get sweaty.

[I have a lot of daily necessities these days. Toilet paper, water, stuff like that... . It's a bit uncomfortable for customers to go to the mart.] The

place to go with a handcart is the apartment.

If the elevator is used for a long time, residents may become uncomfortable, so it takes a minute and a second more.

[But there are three elevators here, and even if you hold one like this, it's a bit comfortable because the management office and customers all understand it. Here.] The

distance of walking and running like this in a day is about 20 km, about 30,000 steps.

[(Where is the most difficult place to deliver?) A general house without an elevator, it is very difficult if there are a lot of heavy things in this place.]

Gyeong-hwan, who finished work around 8 pm.

For the first time in 7 years, we have a three-day holiday tomorrow.

[Kim Gyeong-hwan/Courier: Just rest and sleep at home. It's not going to be a lot of pieces to go out to play or hobby where himdeuleoseo.

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<Yoo, Duck - Ki news>

Give the rest to the delivery of these workers, so it made "no day courier ' , It is tomorrow.

Four large courier companies, including CJ Logistics, and workers who are consigned to post offices can take a break for three days starting tomorrow.

This is about 95% of all courier workers, or about 50,000.


However, on the 17th, which is a temporary holiday, most of them work normally.

So, if you order a courier today, it will be delivered sequentially from the 17th.

In the case of post offices, pick-up workers and private businesses, who are employees, are in charge of the courier service, but the pick-up workers deliver delivery tomorrow.

However, there may be delays, so we do not accept delivery of fresh food today and tomorrow.

Commerce companies such as Coupang, which have their own delivery network, will continue to service tomorrow.

Closed nationwide in 28 years since the delivery service was introduced.

It will help courier workers, but it's far from fundamentally improving working conditions.

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<Reporter Je Hee-won>

There are courier workers who are talking about a holiday even after 28 years.

[Park Sang-bok/Small courier company article: Why are other companies resting, but we can't. It was the day that made me rest in the real country.]

Due to the corona crisis, the increase in parcel delivery this year jumped to 20%.

Courier performance improved, but working conditions were worse.

[Choi Seung-mook/Chairman of the Delivery Workers Union: (Average) 74 hours per week (working) The annual working hours are forced to work 1,800 hours more than the average worker in total wages.]

Five courier workers who suffered from long working hours died this year alone.

The number of deaths from courier workers who were judged as industrial accidents also reached 9.

Courier workers complain that it is difficult to ask for a break or reduce the quantity of goods due to the structure where income is determined by the number of deliveries.

The sorting operation that takes five to six hours a day is actually'free labor', and discussions on alternative staffing are sluggish.

Many of them are specially employed workers, so they are not protected by the Labor Standards Act, and workers' compensation insurance is not covered because they are voluntary.

Nevertheless, in the joint declaration made by the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the courier service, there is only abstract content such as "We try not to deliver late-night delivery."

[Gyeong-ho Jin/Senior Vice Chairman of the Courier Cooperative Union: There was a social consensus to come up with a countermeasure this time, since each person dies every month.) This joint declaration does not contain a single provision for such practical measures.]

Introduction of Automatic Classifiers or Classifications In addition to corporate investments such as expansion, the efforts of companies and governments need to be more concrete, such as improving the industrial accident insurance system.

(Video editing: Jihye So, VJ: Seungmin Han)