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What’s the future for global mail after Covid has put its stamp on services?

Europeans expecting mail from the US will need considerable patience in the coming months.
On 20 May, the US Postal Service (USPS) sent a consolidated shipment of mail from Chicago, New York and Miami across the Atlantic by sea, to arrive at the port of Rotterdam this week.
It was the fourth time the USPS resorted to ocean transport to move international mail since the Covid-19 pandemic hit international flows and the …

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Ningbo-Zhoushan port jumps on postal trend

Ningbo-Zhoushan Port in China’s Zhejiang province has teamed with China Post to create an express channel to facilitate the shipping of mail and parcels in containers, by fast-tracking customs clearance.

The port, part of the Zhejiang Seaport group, has teamed with China Post’s Zhejiang branch to create what has been termed “Express Sea Delivery”.

Both sides completed a pilot run on 25 May that saw containerised shipments of epidemic prevention goods moving from Ningbo-Zhoushan to Osaka and Kobe...

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Sea and rail mail from China replaces air cargo trade

Following on the heels of the China Post-COSCO collaboration, the customs and port authorities of Liaoning and Guangdong provinces in China have opened up intermodal channels to transport mail and parcels through a combination of shipping and rail.

On 15 May 2020, Liaoning Provincial Postal Administration arranged for 311 bags of mails and parcels, weighing a total of 5,955kg to be trucked to the provincial capital, Shenyang, to Dalian Dayao Bay. Following customs clearance, the mailbags, which...

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China Post and COSCO collaborate on postal service

COSCO Shipping Lines, the China COSCO group’s container liner unit, has been working with China Post to deliver letters on its vessels, in an arrangement that began on 10 April 2020.

As airlines have slashed flights amid the Covid-19 pandemic, China Post, the Chinese postal service, is substituting surface mail for air mail. While acknowledging that surface mail is slower, China Post said post is accumulating due to the shortage of flights and sea transits offer an alternative solution.

In one...

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