CHINA's e-retailer JD
CHINA's e-retailer JD.com has entered the parcel delivery business by opening its logistics network to consumers looking to send parcels nationwide, with the company anticipating that the service will garner the greatest demand from urban professionals. The parcel delivery service enables users of the company's app in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou to send items intracity and across mainland China using the same delivery service that they receive when making purchases, reported American Shipper.
The company has commenced user trials of the parcel delivery service with multiple ways for customers to request pickups. In addition to the JD.com app, shippers can request pickups on a JD delivery mini programme in WeChat, China's largest social network operated by JD's partner Tencent, and a JD 'delivery team' WeChat account.
'JD is the only large-scale e-commerce company in the world to operate a nationwide in-house logistics network, down to the last mile. The network, powered by the company's proprietary supply chain management technology, is able to deliver over 90 per cent of orders same or next day and reaches 99 per cent of China's population,' the company said in its blog.
'Depending on the delivery option chosen, packages may be sent by high-speed rail or air,' JD said. 'Individual shippers can use the same JD app they use for shopping to schedule a pickup by one of JD's full-time logistics staff and have a parcel delivered thousands of miles away at the speed they choose.'
