The Year Is Coming To &Nbsp; Online Shopping Spring Transportation Meets With "Labor Shortage".

Close to the year. " Spring Festival online shopping "The peak period of business, however, is express." company But the situation is hard to find.

"By the end of the year, many colleagues were afraid that they could not buy tickets and go home early, or they could quit their jobs directly. We stayed there for more than ten hours a day, starting from 7~8 a.m., until they were still packing at 12 in the evening." Yesterday (January 20th), a postman of STO Beijing told reporters.

Xu Yong, chief consultant of the express consultancy network, told reporters that although the volume of online shopping Spring Festival was surging, it needed more manpower in its own way, but it was affected by the tide of returning home at the end of the year. It was the biggest time for the staff to express the company's mobility. While online shopping broke out in the wake of the sharp increase in the number of courier employees, welfare benefits had not been improved correspondingly. Recruitment difficulties Problem.

This statement was confirmed yesterday by many express companies, including Shen Tong, Zhong Tong, home express, Star Express and so on.

"The problem will be more serious after the year." Xiong Xingming, executive vice president of Home Express, admitted in an interview with reporters that influenced by the transformation of China's economic development pattern, many enterprises built factories in the inland areas to attract migrant workers to return home, and the inflationary pressure made the consumption level of developed cities more and more high, which led to the problem of staff turnover and recruitment difficulties in express companies.

"The annual turnover rate of the express delivery center is around 50%, and the flow of delivery staff is roughly 30%." Xu Yong estimates that 95% of the express workers in the first tier cities are not local population, and the overall wages of couriers are not high enough. This also causes the domestic e-commerce enterprises to experience enormous logistics pressure before the Spring Festival every year.

Correspondingly, although the holiday time of major express companies during the Spring Festival has not been officially announced, many Taobao businesses have already announced the announcement. After January 20th, the order items will be distributed after the Spring Festival holiday, which is two or three days earlier than in previous years. According to Taobao business, some small express companies stopped early in the middle of January due to heavy snow, freezing rain and other weather effects.

On the 19 day, Alibaba group released the latest logistics strategy in Beijing. Ma announced that it would invest 100 billion yuan in developing the national logistics system with partners, and stressed that "doing logistics is not a whim".

"But according to the current express market price, even if the" online shopping Spring Festival "promotes the volume and turnover of express companies, the profits are declining. Xu Yong estimates that the profits of express companies have dropped from 35% in 2005 to about 10% now. Xiong Xingming said that some express companies are likely to lose 10% of their profits.