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Not long ago, I decided to drill a hole for the handles in the product box that I made for workers carrying goods at a hypermarket.
This time, the post office also decided to make a'hole handle' on the parcel box.
Reporter Kim Ki-tae reports.
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When carrying a heavy box, it feels slippery and heavier if you hold it by the corners or sides.
The bottom of the box has to be lifted and the courier or mart workers have to repeat the bowing motion.
Often suffers from diseases of the musculoskeletal system.
Workers at couriers and supermarkets have asked for holes only in boxes to reduce the load.
The government decided to make a handle in the form of a hole in the post office parcel box and sell it at the post office.
Priority is applied to the No. 5 box used for parcels over 7kg.
By creating a handle on the box, you can reduce the weight by 10% or more.
[Ki-Young Choi/Minister of Science and Technology Information and Communication: Due to Corona 19, the delivery volume is soaring, so delivery drivers are having a lot of trouble.
I think it will be very helpful to those in the courier business.]
We plan to sell boxes first in the metropolitan area and Gangwon area, where there is high demand for boxes, and expand them nationwide by next year.
The three hypermarkets also decided to make hole handles on their own branded product boxes, and the manufacturing industry needs to participate in it so that they can be introduced step by step into the general box manufacturing process.
(Video coverage: Park Hyun-cheol, Video editing: Kim Jun-hee)