At this moment, I suddenly thought of an interesting philosophical question. I thought that the purpose of our online shopping was to be cheap, but now we have bought a lot of things that are not useful on this day.

Alas, alas, anyway, as long as we are happy.

So when everyone is happy to buy something, I ask one more question:Why free delivery in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai?

Consumers living in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai will not have such doubts.

Because since online shopping, free delivery has been the norm in this area. Whether it is a large number of concentrated online shopping at 11: 00, or the usual scattered orders, people in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai have hardly ever paid for postage.

Perhaps only when you leave this free delivery area will you find that online shopping actually needs to pay postage!

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I have a friend who has lived in Shanghai for nearly ten years. He left Shanghai to live in Wuhan in 2018. The biggest discomfort with life is not the difference in urban living habits, but the fact that Taobao, which is frequented, no longer gives her free delivery.

Even shopkeepers who seem to refuse free delivery equally have regional differences: 300 free delivery in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, Anhui, 500 free delivery in remote areas such as Jilin, Guizhou, Xinjiang and other places.

My friend, holding the mentality of not steaming steamed bread for breath, looked at the mood from online shopping in the past, and the habit of casually issuing orders turned into accumulating single-form shopping.

For free delivery, she often pieces together some items that she may not need at all. I often laugh at her for picking up sesame seeds and losing watermelons. For the freight of 10 yuan, I have to pay several times the price to buy something impractical.

However, she is not alone in this spending habit. Just like the joke on Douyin: Taobao shopkeeper told me 90 yuan for pants and 10 yuan for freight, so why don't you price them for 100 yuan and give me free delivery!

Even on Zhihu Inc., some people will humorously answer the question of why Jiangsu and Zhejiang do not have national papers for the college entrance examination: because free delivery is provided in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

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China is so big, why can Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai get free delivery?

Because of the wide and dense transportation network layout of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.

Free delivery in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, there is a funny corresponding sentence on the Internet, Mongolia, Tibet and Xinjiang at their own expense.

Although it is a joke, it shows the helplessness of the regional difference. Because the Mongolian-Tibetan border is so large that Xinjiang alone occupies the land area of 1x6 in China.

In Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai provinces and one city.The total area only accounts for 2.28% of the whole country.Convenient traffic conditionsIt has a modern Jianghai port group and airport group, a dense network of highways, high-speed rail access to every city, and bus-rail trunk lines.The density leads the country.

Take the high-speed train from Shanghai Hongqiao Railway Station to the 16 core cities in the Yangtze River Delta within half an hour.

The development of express delivery based on transportation makes a more efficient series between enterprises and economies. So as to minimize the cost of time and money.Let the various industries all over the country connect into an industrial chain, so as to form the upgrading of the industry.

Express headquarters gatherJiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are the first to achieve 100% full coverage of the network.。

Three links and one reach, Best, Debang, SUNING, Tiantian and other express headquarters gathered here.

In 2018, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai completed a total of 18 billion pieces of express delivery, accounting for more than 35.5% of the country's total express delivery business, and 37.8% of the country's express revenue.

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Express first and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai integrated development, is a point to face, from the local to the whole, in turn to promote, organic links, symbiosis and co-prosperity of the ecosystem.

而The basis of free delivery is the concentration of resources and industry-wide chain in the upstream and downstream of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai express delivery.

First of all, the birthplace of e-commerce, buyers and sellers are relatively concentrated.Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are the strongholds of online shopping across the country, where many e-commerce platforms such as BABA, SUNING, Yi Xun and Pinduoduo have taken root.

BABA platform started in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, SUNING is headquartered in Nanjing, Jiangsu, Yi Xun, No. 1 store and Dianping and other e-commerce enterprises are established in Shanghai.

BABA and others attracted Yiwu small commodities wholesale to sell goods on the platform, the number of Taobao seller accounts is as high as 100000. Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are the folks of the e-commerce platform, can you have the nerve not to give us free delivery?

Secondly, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are also the birthplace and important place of consumption of the e-commerce platform.

The business volume of express delivery in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai accounts for more than 3% of the whole country, sellers and buyers are relatively concentrated, the efficiency of express delivery continues to improve, the marginal cost decreases, and the price continues to decline.

According to relevant statistics, the average price of express delivery in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai in 2018 is 10 yuan, down 6 yuan from 5 years ago, including 11 yuan in Jiangsu and 7 yuan in Zhejiang.

Someone on Zhihu Inc. raised a chestnut. If you forget to take a coin with you when you take a bus in the same city, you may meet someone to drop a coin for you, and you don't even need you to return it, but there will be no one to help you if you don't have the money to buy a ticket when you go out on a plane.

A few yuan thing, the seller as a small profit and quick turnover, dozens of yuan thing, that is to lose money, naturally no one is willing to do it.

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The territory of free delivery is gradually expanded, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai are the first to achieve visa collection within 24 hours!

Online shopping to today, in fact, free delivery has been far more than Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, the Yangtze River Delta supernumerary member Anhui, has been quietly included in the scope of free delivery in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and Anhui.

Under the effect of the capital economic circle, e-commerce has also become a new selling point of free delivery in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, and the Pearl River Delta economic circle is also rubbing its hands, waiting to become the next free delivery economic circle.

After all, the mood of waiting for express delivery is the same for people all over the country.

When the remote areas are still struggling with the problem of free deliveryJiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai have begun to shorten the collection time of express delivery.

In April 2019, express delivery such as ZTO Express, Yunda, Yuantong and Best started to speed up the express delivery of the "national core economic circle" to help regional economic integration speed up circulation.

The Yangtze River Delta is the first to promise that the express delivery of 26 cities in the circle will arrive the next day.

At present, the time limit for obtaining signatures has been shortened to 22.6 hours, taking the lead in achieving the goal of 24-hour delivery.

In the future, the Pearl River Delta, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and other economic circles will be started to speed up, through a key point and hub to increase the express delivery rate of the bottom-line cities, and finally reach the national 24-hour.

In the matter of national logistics layout, JD.com took the lead. It breaks the geographical advantage pattern of e-commerce logistics in the Yangtze River Delta.

In 2019, JD Logistics, Inc. has distributed more than 600 warehouses across the country. JD Logistics, Inc. 's "half-day" service has become standard, including Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, Yangtze River Delta, Chengdu and Chongqing, the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, the Central Plains, Guanzhong Plain and other cities in more than 10 urban agglomerations. The average coverage rate of the city in 24 hours has reached nearly 95%.

Especially in the Yangtze River Delta, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and other areas, the half-day coverage rate is nearly 90%. Promote the logistics time-limited upgrading of the national urban agglomeration, speed up the circulation speed within and between urban agglomerations, and promote logistics to become an important force in regional coordinated development.

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The 2019 double National Day holiday officially kicked off in the early hours of this morning.

This game, which is playing in its 11th year, has been complained that the rules are becoming more and more complicated and Taobao is becoming more and more insincere, but these slots still can't stop Singles' Day from becoming a major festival of crazy shopping in the country and the annual carnival of e-commerce platforms.

I don't know what's the result of you who have been robbed all night?

With the continuous change and development of e-commerce platform, the scope of free delivery will expand with the development of traffic gridding, integration and diversification. The territory of free delivery will spread throughout the country and even the world sooner or later.

Archimedes once said, give me a fulcrum and I can pry up the whole earth. AndThe Yangtze River Delta, the birthplace of the e-commerce empire, has pried the pulse of the global Internet economy with e-commerce platforms.

In addition to free delivery in the future, will Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai create the next new starting point to change their lives?We'll see.