The express delivery industry puts on the label of "safe, unimpeded and environmentally friendly"
In the Huibojiayuan community in Xueyuan Road, Haidian District, Beijing, couriers are preparing to put items into smart cabinets.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Ren Chao photo
Express logistics, connected to merchants and e-commerce platforms at one end, and connected to thousands of consumers at the other, is an important link in the process of online merchandise sales.
According to the deployment of the State Post Bureau, from November this year to the eve of the Spring Festival next year is the peak season for express delivery services.
In order to ensure that consumers receive parcels quickly and conveniently, express companies have "showed their magical powers" one after another, working together on sorting equipment, delivery speed, environmental protection and energy conservation, and promoting the transformation and upgrading of the express delivery industry.
Smart logistics, let users feel at ease
The parcels printed with the logistics information sheet are transported forward by the crawler, and after passing through the scanner, they are sent to different distribution outlets.
Below the exit, open mail bags catch these parcels, and when they are full, they will be sealed by the staff... This is a scene in the automatic sorting hub of SF Express in Tianjin Airport Economic Zone.
It is understood that the equipment used to scan barcodes is called a "six-sided scanner", which can be quickly identified no matter where the waybill is affixed.
The whole set of sorting equipment can handle up to 1.5 million parcels per day, with an accuracy rate of over 99%.
Provide high-performance bar code scanning courier handles, integrated weighing, scanning, and photographing dynamic electronic scales that can identify stored information... These high-tech equipment can save manpower and help shorten package processing time.
The "China Express Logistics Development Report 2020-2021" released by the Development Research Center of the State Post Bureau pointed out that one of the development trends of the express industry this year is that 5G, cloud computing, industrial Internet and the Internet of Things are more used in the express logistics field. Smart express delivery can drive the industry to further upgrade.
Not only storage management and sorting processing, but also scientific and technological means are also showing their talents in the freight process.
At Guangzhou Institute of Technology, SF unmanned vehicles can deliver packages to students.
It is reported that the car is equipped with multiple sensors such as lidar, ultrasonic radar, camera, etc. Through navigation and positioning technology, the staff can remotely drive by remote control, or the vehicle can drive automatically.
The relevant person in charge of SF Express said in an interview with this newspaper that the current application of unmanned vehicles in the two scenarios of "delivering express mail from outlets to users downstairs in closed parks" and "in-building delivery" is relatively mature.
Thanks to unmanned vehicle delivery, buyers do not need to face-to-face contact with couriers during the epidemic prevention period, which adds security to both the delivery and the receiver.
Express delivery into the village to solve farmers’ problems
In April 2020, the State Post Bureau issued the "Three-year Action Plan for Express Delivery into Villages (2020-2022)", clarifying that by the end of 2022, express delivery systems in counties, townships and villages should be gradually established to basically unblock the circulation channels between urban and rural areas.
Xiufengqiao Village in Changyang Tujia Autonomous County in Hubei Province is one village that has benefited from it.
The mountain road here is winding and winding, and Zhongtong Express has established a site covering 5 villages and covering nearly 2,000 villagers.
The courier brother Zhang Qian travels between the county and the village every other day and can bring more than a thousand parcels to the villagers.
There are many couriers like Zhang Qian across the country who take over the "last mile". They deliver products from merchants to meet the daily shopping needs of villagers and dredge the "capillaries" of the national logistics network.
According to data from the State Post Bureau, at present, all of China's organized villages have achieved direct mail delivery, and the coverage of township express outlets has reached 98%, which has solved the logistics and distribution problems of rural residents in the process of online shopping.
Express delivery into the countryside can also help agricultural products to "go out of the village and into the city."
The relevant person in charge of Zhongtong Express told the reporter that the company will help farmers expand their sales channels and increase their income by setting up points in the villages, centralized collection and delivery, direct distribution lines, and e-commerce sales in the origin of agricultural products. Passion fruit in Hainan, Hetian jujube in Xinjiang, and yellow peach in Shiqiao Town, Lianyungang, Jiangsu...From north to south, from west to east, express companies actively respond to the state's call to help farmers increase their income and become rich."
A series of data proves the necessity of express delivery to the countryside. From January to August this year, among the country’s express delivery business, the volume of delivery in rural areas exceeded 28 billion, an increase of over 30% year-on-year; 1/3 is in rural areas, and the rural market has become a new growth point for the express delivery industry.
In the first 7 months of this year, a total of 249 express delivery services for modern agriculture with a business volume of over one million pieces have been formed in the first seven months of this year, injecting new vitality into rural revitalization.
Simplified packaging to reduce the burden on the environment
Promoting the green transformation of logistics and express delivery companies is also one of the key words of this peak express season.
A few days ago, the China Express Association issued a green initiative to the entire industry, calling on all companies to fully implement the national and industry requirements for green development during the peak business season.
The "Administrative Measures for the Packaging of Express Mail Items" that were implemented this year stated that delivery companies should abide by the state's regulations on prohibiting and restricting the use of non-degradable plastic bags and other disposable plastic products, and encourage delivery companies to actively recycle plastic bags and other disposable plastic products, and use recyclable plastic products. , Easy to recycle, degradable alternative products.
Environmental protection expert Xu Rong believes that because packaging produces carbon emissions during production, transportation, recycling, and incineration, shipping companies and logistics companies should avoid excessive packaging of packages as much as possible.
Fortunately, companies have taken the initiative to take the initiative, such as using 42mm "slimming tape" instead of 45mm tape, using simple packaging methods such as "one character", "cross" and "tic-tac-toe" to replace the past "five-flower tie", and set up special recycling outlets. Equipment, according to the weight and type of packaging waste to obtain the corresponding "environmental protection gold"...Enterprises actively take action to reduce the burden on the environment, and also promote the industry to move towards energy conservation and emission reduction.
For express companies, using green express packaging is only the first step, and more importantly, improving efficiency.
For example, for consumers who place multiple orders within a day, combine multiple packages for one-time delivery; use environmentally friendly recycle mail bags to store express mail; use new energy express vehicles to replace ordinary gasoline vehicles.
Low-carbon logistics, green transformation, and high-quality development are the general trend, but they are by no means a day's work. Express companies have a lot to do.
Wang Jingyue