Who is the most lovely man in the world? The courier.
On entering my office this morning, I got a text on my cell phone. So I checked it and guess what? It's from some courier. He was going to carry me the beautiful cushion that I ordered yesterday on Taobao.
Evertime I take packages from a courier's hand, I feel that he is the Santa Claus carrying the present for me. Of course, I'm the one who pay for it. Yet, it's still exciting and makes you feel grateful to get your favored things without going somewhere hundreds of miles away.
Thanks to Jack Ma and his cofounded e-commerce platform Taobao, we Chinese consumers can enjoy the fun of shopping online. The Taobao is something like Amazon founded by Jeff Bazos. Taobao's success has a lot to do with the logistics companies .And the lovely couriers I mentioned are from logistics companies like Shengtong Express. The Chinese are becoming more and more dependant on shopping on the Internet. Accordingly, on Singles' Day 2015, 467 million packages were generated on Alibaba's websites including Taobao, Tianmao and so on. To deliver all those goods, more than 1.7 million couriers were required.That's brilliant! It's those couriers who make shopping easier and cheaper.
The work of delivering goods consists of shuffling back and forth under the scording sun or in the heavy rain. It's hard and laborious. That's also the reason why most of the couriers in China are men. What are the women doing while men are delivering? Well, they formed the major army of shopping force.
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That's true. E-commerce is getting higher edge with every passing day. Not only in China but many other countries are also enjoying the fruit of home shopping.
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