Feuding system: China mail conflict
China’s trade ministry is moving to resolve a battle between the nation’s sate-run postal service and international freight forwarders such as FedEx and UPS over rights to deliver mail in China.
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China Post Not Worried
Lured by the huge potential market of China, foreign and domestic delivery companies have been racing to get a bigger bite of the growing pie. UPS started direct flights to China in April, 12 years after it began operations in the country, becoming the second US express carrier after Federal Express (FedEx) to operate direct flights. UPS will operate six Boeing 747 flights a week between the two countries. The company served the China market through Hong Kong in co-operation with Sinotrans, its China-based partner, before being granted direct air rights by the US government in January. Grabbing about 5% of China’s express delivery market, UPS posted a 45% growth in 2000 over the previous year in its China business.
Read MoreShanghai Postal Bureau promises faster express- mail service
The Shanghai Courier Service Corp., which operates under the Shanghai Postal Bureau, will officially merge the bureau’s telegraph-delivery, city express-delivery and express-mail networks in June to become the first city express-delivery company in the postal sector nationwide
Read MoreA Roiling Battle in China Over Express Mail Service
China: State Postal Bureau claims that foreign freight forwarders are
violating law that gives its Express Mail Service exclusive right to deliver
international express mail
Private delivery of inbound international mail in China
A bitter feud between freight forwarders and China’s official postal sector appears unavoidable with each side unable to agree on whether exclusive rights exist over the delivery of international mail.
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