BEIJING: All villages in China now have access to scheduled buses to benefit people’s travel. However, some villagers still have to travel far to pick up their parcels.
A new mode to solve “the last mile” problem to facilitate the delivery of parcels in rural areas is to transport the parcels via the scheduled buses. Thus, parcels, as “special passengers”, can also take the ride to the villages.
The new mode has been proven as efficient and successful in Yucheng county of East China’s Shandong province.
At the bus station of Yucheng on the morning of Aug 30, trucks carrying parcels from Jinan, the provincial capital, arrived early.
Workers and machines were busy unloading and sorting parcels. Then those parcels caught a bus to villages and were usually placed at a local grocery store. Villagers can easily pick up their packages close to their home.
“Villagers usually did not write the detailed address to the villages. They just wrote the township’s name (because the parcels were only sent to towns) and picked up their parcels in the town.
But now many villagers write their addresses to the village since the parcels now can be delivered to the village, which is closer to their homes,” said Liu Yu, director of the postal development center of Yucheng transport commission. –The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
