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Smart Express
Guo Yujing
China Post has announced the opening of 5,000 self-pickup outlets across the country, and any courier company that delivers goods can enjoy this service. Self-pickup outlets include existing postal outlets and "unmanned" intelligent express cabinets. Seemingly simple self-pickup system open, behind the big market of intelligent express delivery. Enterprises, experts, authorities and other responsible persons believe that intelligent courier has become the current government-driven courier to meet the important means of consumer and commercial demand.
Couriers will courier parcels to the intelligent courier cabinet placed in the community, to the recipient to send pick-up SMS. Recipients after cell phone query - enter the password - open the door to pick up three steps, you can be a courier package out of the smart courier cabinet, carry home. This approach is increasingly welcomed by residents and couriers. China Courier Association Executive Vice President Li Huide said that the current emergence of a number of intelligent courier cabinets, representing the future direction of China's courier industry - intelligent courier, that is, through the introduction of information technology, big data and other modern means, the integration of forecasting and other ways to meet the high-density, high-cost, high-manpower modern express delivery work through the introduction of information technology, big data and other modern means, such as the fusion of forecasting, more convenient and intelligent facilities (eg, intelligent courier cabinets) and means High-density, high-cost, high-manpower modern courier work, through the construction of community "intelligent courier station" for consumer services.
Intelligent courier station mode can be 24 hours a day to provide services to residents, reduce traffic congestion, the future can also become independent of the smart account, the public at home can complete a variety of postal services and other community services operation. Experts believe that, compared with the traditional model, the courier cabinet has several advantages. First, it is a standardized product that can connect various courier companies; secondly, it is to do 24-hour service; thirdly, it is to join the camera to reduce disputes; fourthly, it is inexpensive.
Intelligent courier can be digested in China's rapid growth of the huge amount of express. The future of China's courier business volume soared, and the increasing cost of manual delivery, continue to meet the residents and e-commerce courier needs, express cabinets become an effective solution to the problem.
Intelligent courier cabinet also has a strong scalability, become a high-value community portal. Industry insiders believe that the Beijing East ①, for example, can increase the refrigerated freezing function, only 1000 yuan cost can be added to an attached cabinet. In addition, you can use this space for sales, based on the accumulation of big data in the community, e-commerce can master the community to buy rice, oil and other household goods and advance distribution of storage, improving the efficiency and value of logistics and express cabinets.
Predictions show that the intelligent courier will be accompanied by express demand and service enhancement and high-speed development, according to the national potential demand for express cabinets and the total number of can be built in the next five years or so can produce tens of billions of dollars in the market.
(From Half Moon Talk, Issue 8, 2015, with deletions)