April 2 News, last June, China Post and Ali signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement announced that will be in the logistics, electric business, finance and other areas of all-round development of in-depth cooperation. At that time, "private courier is expected to share state-owned enterprises resources" has become the focus of the industry. Today, the idea becomes reality.
Yesterday (April 1), the rookie network announced that China Post will join the rookie network to open 5,000 postal sites to the community, to provide users with package collection services. It is understood that in China Post and Ali of this cooperation, rookie network is the implementation of the main body of Ali.
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The industry generally believes that this means that the postal network for the first time indirect to private courier open.
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It is understood that at the time of signing last year, China Post said that the network opened to the rookie more than 100,000 service outlets, together for businesses and consumers to provide social self-mention services.
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There are people in the industry to reporters that 5,000 postal outlets, although only a small part of the network, but it is a historical breakthrough, can be seen as the postal resources to the private Express open "ice-breaking" lift.
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5 cities such as Beijing have been online
Yesterday, rookie network told reporters, the first batch of open Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, online shop has recently on the line, other cities will be completed at the end of April online.
In fact, as early as a few years ago, Ali had laid out the "Day Cat service Station", by some with the cat signed the chain of convenience stores, property companies, community stores and other services to provide collection.
There is an industry opinion that almost all electric dealers are currently laying out this business because it is a need for competition.
In addition, on the Private Express enterprise and see, Yuantong, Rhyme Tatsu, Shun Fung has already opened Express from the Ark, including Shun Fung last year layout "Hey Guest", all over the high-end community, university campuses, subway sites and other areas.
for the reasons for the increase in cooperation between the two sides, in some industry, it seems that, on the one hand, rookie network carrying the "Intelligent Logistics Backbone Network" Building task, last year and China Post signed, "joint efforts to build China's intelligent logistics backbone Network" as the first practical content of the agreement Even if the postal branch of the network are open to the rookie, the Cat, Taobao, the package delivery on the cost, still or private courier accounted for the vast majority. Therefore, the rookie network will borrow the opening of China's postal outlets, as well as spare no effort to promote the net shopping package from the point as far as possible to expand, in order to improve the "last kilometer" delivery time, save more layout costs.
Outlets, including the post office, newspaper kiosks and other
can be from more than 100,000 outlets, 5,000 outlets to fully open, for China Post is also a realistic need. Because in recent years, with the rapid development of China's electric business network, prompting the rapid development of private courier, the postal group system, regardless of the general package or EMS, are affected by the expansion of private express scale and industryThe impact of fierce competition.
According to reporters, the opening of the 5,000 postal outlets, including the Post office of China Post, as well as the Post's newspaper kiosks and agency points. In addition, in order to facilitate the residents to take goods after work, the cooperation of the postal network also based on the circumstances of the appropriate extension of business hours.
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There are insiders told reporters that China Post is willing to open to private Express, but also in order to borrow the volume of private courier packages for the postal import "people", a greater degree to seize the "last kilometer." For example, in Shanghai this January, the Postal Service has launched the "Sea Amoy House". "Amoy House" in addition to imports of goods, the cashier side there are intelligent terminals, consumers can purchase through the intelligent terminal under the trade area of goods, and then directly with the postal service. Similar to such services, the post will be more and more involved in the future market reforms.