What time does a courier usually get off work?

As of 2020 there is no fixed time, working basically more than 12 hours a day.

Beijing East courier told reporters, "6:30 in the morning to pull pieces, the evening almost have to be sent to 19:00, the latest to over 21:00." A SF courier said, almost 100 pieces per day, working until 21:00 at night. The provisions of the rookie parcel, after receiving the user to send the order, within two hours of door-to-door service. Jingdong said that the same city express delivery is expected within 1 hour, the fastest delivery within 3 kilometers can be achieved in 30 minutes. This shows the courier companies on the courier time requirements.

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"Double holiday" means eight days of vacation for ordinary people, but for the courier is the "peak business". In order to ensure that residents during the holiday delivery needs, most of the courier company holiday does not rest, and still maintain the normal rhythm of work, and even some of the courier delivery points located in residential buildings during the holiday courier volume does not decrease rather than increase.

Some couriers can send up to 200 pieces in the morning, busy to "no time to eat", while under normal circumstances on weekdays, the workload of each courier a day in 100 to 150 packages.

A well-known online shopping delivery platform courier station manager Dajun (a pseudonym) of this holiday, is spent at work. Every morning at 7 a.m., he and his courier station under the seven or eight couriers began to work. Dajun told the North China Youth Daily reporter that before each parcel is delivered to consumers, it must first go through the steps of unloading, inspecting, splitting, receiving and loading, and then have a meeting before it can start to go out for distribution - and this process usually takes up to two hours.

"When I start work at 7 a.m., I don't know what time I can finish at night." According to Dajun, couriers work more than 10 hours a day. "If a courier is on duty that day he needs to arrive one hour earlier, that is, at 6 o'clock to unload the goods."

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