Does international mail carry the coronavirus? Can domestic express delivery passing through medium and high risk areas be accepted?
Under the epidemic, is it safe to receive express delivery?
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At present, the safety of express delivery has become a topic of concern to consumers.
According to industry insiders, the outer packaging of express parcels that are finally delivered to consumers can be guaranteed to be safe when express companies implement the sterilization system and take them to stand after disinfection.
However, the postal department recommends that consumers choose contactless delivery as much as possible, and they can ask couriers to put the mail in the express cabinet or express delivery station and other self-pickup points.
After picking up the package, the items in the package should also be disinfected.
"All the couriers I take back are sprayed with alcohol before dismantling." Ms. Lu, who lives in Chaoyang District, Beijing, told the new steps for many people to receive express.
On the evening of April 4, there were rumors on the Internet that "the source of the rapid spread of the epidemic in Shanghai is express delivery". The Shanghai Post Office responded that this news was untrue.
Up to now, no case report has been received of employees and citizens infected by mail delivery, nor has there been any case of infection caused by mail delivery operations.
In the context of the spread of the international epidemic, does the import of international mail carry the new crown virus?
Can domestic express delivery passing through medium and high risk areas be accepted?
These issues have become the focus of consumers' attention.
So under the epidemic, is it safe to receive express delivery?
Courier package outer packaging to ensure safety
On April 5, Ms. Lu received a skin care product from Cainiao Zhejiang Hangzhou Xiasha Bonded Warehouse.
Ms. Lu sprayed the courier with alcohol and then opened it, leaving the outer packaging outside the house.
What she didn't know was that the courier had been killed many times.
Li Chao, head of the Xiasha Bonded Warehouse Operation Management Department, first thing at work every day is to supervise security personnel wearing protective clothing and other operations.
Before entering the park, the container trucks coming from the port must first pass through the key points around the body and the door.
After entering the storage area for unloading, the goods will be transported by a forklift truck to a special pallet for "six-sided killing" of the outer box, and then closed-loop transported to the designated warehouse for standing.
"After the outer box of the goods is sterilized, we will contact the local nucleic acid testing agency. After the test report comes out, the goods will have to stand for 7 days. If there is no problem, the goods will be tallied and put on the shelves, and the warehouse will be released when there is an order." Li Chao Said that the warehouse mainly focuses on cosmetics and health care products imported from abroad.
In order to implement the requirements of "foreign defense input" and "personal defense", warehouse operating costs have risen sharply. "In any case, ensuring safety is the first priority."
The relevant person in charge of the Zhejiang Provincial Postal Administration said that the outer packaging of the express parcels finally delivered to consumers can be guaranteed to be safe when the express delivery companies implement the sterilization system and take them to stand after disinfection.
120,000 international express items are killed 13 times a day
A new round of epidemic is spreading around the world. Will the new coronavirus be brought into the country by international express mail?
In order to prevent foreign imports, the State Post Bureau requires the implementation of the "first-stop disinfection responsibility system" for imported international mail.
At the China Post Beijing Air Mail Exchange Station, nearly 120,000 pieces of goods from overseas will be killed every day.
Due to the strict closed-loop management, reporters could not enter it. On April 1, I learned about the sterilization process of international express through a telephone interview.
After 7:00 in the morning, Zhang Quancai, the squad leader of the killing and static area at the exchange station of China Post Beijing Air Mail Processing Center, took the fixed shuttle bus to the exchange station as usual.
After the nucleic acid test, he will do a full day of closed-loop work.
Before entering the workshop, he and his colleagues need to complete strict personal protection.
At 8:30 in the morning, the first postal car after customs clearance from the Capital Airport arrived at the designated location, and the staff immediately carried out a comprehensive sterilization of the body.
Subsequently, the packages unloaded from the car are first sanitized on the conveyor belt for the first time.
"The mail bags must be sterilized and placed on a bag-by-bag basis. Every day, mail bags from 147 international mail exchange bureaus and more than 220 countries and regions must be received, and then sterilized." Zhang Quancai said.
After the first sterilization is completed, the package before opening will be left for 24 hours in the designated location.
During this period, these standing packages will be sprayed with disinfectant again every two hours, that is, all total packages will be sterilized 13 times in one day.
"After that, the general package will be unpacked, killed on six sides, and killed one by one." According to Zhang Quancai, after 24 hours of standing, the mail package will be disassembled, and then the mail inside will be killed one by one, which also requires After standing for 24 hours, you can leave the closed loop and enter the domestic mail transfer station. After killing again, it will be sent to all parts of the country.
"This job looks simple and boring, but it has a lot of responsibilities." Zhang Quancai also concentrated on accommodation, transport, and production every day to ensure the safety of epidemic prevention and control for operators and express shipments.
Increase the killing intensity of express delivery from risk areas
International shipments go through layers of sterilization before they enter the delivery link, so what are the sterilization processes for domestic express shipments?
At the outlet of ZTO Express outside Beijing's North Second Ring Road, several courier brothers are killing the express delivery vehicles from the distribution center.
The courier Chen Bin came to the outlet to pick up the express in the delivery area he was in charge of. He told the reporter that every express he took had been eliminated one by one.
According to the relevant person in charge of ZTO Express, the express vehicles will be fully sterilized before entering and leaving the distribution.
Before the express loading and unloading operation, the fixed spray treatment equipment that has been set up will kill the express on the conveyor belt one by one.
All shipments can only enter the sorting process after the sterilization work is completed.
The person in charge told reporters: "For vehicles from medium and high-risk areas, we use spraying and other equipment to sterilize the appearance of the entire vehicle before entering the door, and spray and sterilize the unloaded shipments one by one. Kill them every day. After that, we can enter the processing process.”
The reporter learned from an interview that with the emergence of medium and high-risk areas in many places in China, the express processing centers and express business outlets of major express companies have increased the intensity of express screening and killing from risk areas.
After several rounds of sterilization, whether it is an international express or a domestic express package passing through medium and high-risk areas, the possibility of being contaminated by the new coronavirus during transportation is very small, but it cannot be ruled out that the goods mechanically carry the virus and cause transmission.
In this regard, the postal department suggests that consumers should try to choose contactless delivery, and they can ask the courier to put the mail in the express cabinet or express delivery station.
Wear masks, disposable gloves and other protective equipment when picking up items to avoid direct contact with the mail.
The outer packaging of the package should be sprayed or wiped with medical alcohol or chlorine-containing disinfectant before unpacking and use.
Items in the package should also be disinfected.
Reporter: Gan Xi