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Absrtact: Recently, the Chongqing Municipal Price Bureau to Six Express enterprises (Yuantong, Shentong, Qualcomm, Huitong, Yun-da) launched an investigation, the cause is that these six enterprises held a number of joint price coordination meeting, unified improve the express fee standard. In fact, the Chongqing Express Enterprise

Recently, the Chongqing Municipal Price Bureau of Six Express Enterprises (Yuantong, Shentong, Qualcomm, Huitong, Yun-da) launched an investigation, the cause is that these six enterprises held a number of joint price coordination meetings, unified to improve the express fee standards.

In fact, the Chongqing Express Enterprise Joint price move is not an isolated case.

All along, the electric business and courier like Rhinos and rhino birds as interdependent, but in the rapid development of the electric business industry, the days of courier has not become better. There has been a netizen joking, "Jiangsu and Zhejiang Shanghai Package Mail" is China's most serious regional discrimination, although it is joking, but also reflects the online shopping and express in daily life important position.

Under the influence of competition, cost and other factors, the express company and the electricity business platform appears the profit seesaw problem, therefore, this to the benefit community more and more apart, the interest contention is unavoidable, the rift appears.

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More than Chongqing, this year has been a number of express companies to request the price of the event.

April, Xiamen Express Association has been to the local electric business enterprises launched the "Xiamen Express market price Self-discipline Convention", the unified establishment of the lowest price, trying to use the form of the Convention to change the City Express enterprise loss dilemma. But in the end because of the suspected monopoly by the local authorities to call a halt.

June, Xiangtan Express Industry Association was established. The establishment of the association soon, local Shentong, Yuantong, Qualcomm, Rhyme Tatsu and other express companies will be for the electricity dealers and retail courier costs to raise. Then by the city price bureau suspected of collusion price suspension.

It is not difficult to find that the "electricity quotient" is the three incidents of the express companies in the common price increase goal, and in fact, in the comb in recent years after the public report can be seen, although the electric business and express the interests of the two, but the express company and the contradiction between the platform is constantly.

2009, including Shentong, Qualcomm, Yun Tatsu, including several private express companies have issued a price increase policy, the demand for price increases generally in 5%-20%. The move was interpreted as an express company to reach the price of the alliance to increase prices, and the most affected by the impact is considered to produce 3 million Daily Express single Taobao sellers. The move ended in the collapse of the "Price Union".

2012, out of concern about the distribution system can not withstand the Beijing-East "double 11" sales of the impact of the explosion, on the other hand, do not want to be suspected of "competition with the East", Shen Tong Express announced that the third party platform merchants to their distribution center of the Express, staged a breakup.

The power quotient and the express contradiction frequency is behind is the two interests contention.

The postage price spreads into the profit growth point of the shop

Although the electric business platform is the express Company's important business source, but in the intense competition, the courier company often must exert the low price The Assassin's killer, the low price or even 0 profit to the net shop delivery can guarantee the business quantity.

For example, Beijing with the city to send an official website to provide the price is one kilogram below 12 yuan, and in some electric business platform, Beijing City Express fee only 6 yuan, normal price and shop discount price difference of one times. Some express company personnel also frankly "to shop prices are really very low."

At the same time, the Express company's price concessions have become some sellers profit points. For example, do not package mail, ordinary courier users need postage generally 10 to 20 yuan, and many of the city's ordinary Express company to Taobao store shipping price of only 3-6 yuan, so that every deal a single shop, you can easily earn 4-17 yuan, sales of large online shop to send hundreds of orders a day, this part of the income is considerable.

For the Express company, do not hit the price war without business, lower prices to obtain the business can not guarantee revenue. In the "Do not increase the price of death, price rise first die" in the reality, the Express company holding a group of heating, the joint price of the move will naturally occur.

You don't have to earn more than you do.

Although the electric dealer to express a lot of business volume, but in the promotion, the courier do more but not necessarily earn much. Every time the promotion day of the electric business platform, the Express company often will appear the phenomenon of the explosion, the workload increases, but this kind of busy is difficult to be reflected in the income.

In order to cope with the large-scale promotional activities of the double platform, the courier company needs to recruit personnel and add warehouse to deal with these investments, which increases the operating cost of the courier company. At the same time, in order to deal with the fierce market competition, express companies tend to reduce prices to attract customers.

Increased investment and lower prices weaken the profit margin, although "more sales" but "thin", so the labor and income is often not proportional.

In recent years, the domestic logistics costs remain high, the range of prices did not appear to rise sharply, for the express company, the electricity business on the one hand, the transmission of a large number of business, on the other hand, but also depressed profits. In the roughly stable profit space, the electricity merchant and the express company like Seesaw's two ends, this high is low.

And in the Electronic Business platform actively from the trend of logistics, express company can be from the electric platform of the cake will be more and more small, express company and electric business platform How to coordinate with each other, is both need to solve the thorny problem.