State Post Bureau: The National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holidays nationwide processed a total of 7.231 billion packages.

Data monitored by the State Post Bureau shows that during the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday (October 1st to October 8th), the overall operation of the postal and express delivery industry in the country was stable. The entire industry processed a total of 7.231 billion parcels, with an average daily processing volume exceeding 900 million parcels. This year, with the overlap of the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, various consumption patterns and scenes were innovated and extended, and the demand for travel from people in various regions was strong, demonstrating the resilience and vitality of the holiday economy. The postal and express delivery industry seized the opportunity for development, with millions of deliverymen sticking to their posts. By ensuring service guarantees and improving service quality, focusing on the market and consumer demands, enriching service content, effectively enhancing the travel experience, and helping stimulate consumer potential. Before the festival, there was a peak period for the delivery of various gifts such as mooncakes, hairy crabs, seafood, beef and mutton, fresh fruits, etc. In order to ensure the delivery of festival gifts, express delivery companies established collection points and cold chain warehouses in Guangdong, Guizhou, Jiangsu, Hubei, and other places in the front end for fresh delivery of goods nearby; in the transit transportation link, express delivery companies optimized trunk routes, increased aviation resource input, dynamically adjusted capacity deployment, and safeguarded the Mid-Autumn reunion with a professional and hierarchical guarantee system; in the end delivery "last mile", express delivery companies delivered goods nearby through multi-warehouse collaboration and intelligent dispatching, achieving "nearby delivery". Express delivery companies actively explore new "express delivery + cultural tourism" scenes, through various methods such as stores, parcel lockers, and self-mailing boxes to enter high-speed rail stations, airports, hotels, tourist attractions, bringing comfortable and convenient travel experiences for holiday travelers, and promoting the conversion of tourism flow into consumption increment. In tourist destinations such as Kashgar in Xinjiang, Sanya in Hainan, and Lhasa in Tibet, the number of special products sent by merchants and tourists increased significantly compared to usual, and express delivery companies cooperated with merchants to build a "travel-purchase-send" consumption loop. In tourist spots such as Qiandao Lake in Hangzhou, Gulangyu Island in Xiamen, and Beijing Road in Guangzhou, IP stores and parcel lockers can meet the needs of tourists for luggage and special products delivery, and the newly explored express delivery experience space is based on the core model of "express delivery + cultural tourism + commerce", solving tourists' pain points from the dual dimensions of service and experience. A relevant person from the State Post Bureau stated that in recent years, the postal and express delivery industry has continuously strengthened its service supply capacity, accelerated deep integration with the cultural tourism industry, and injected new vitality into the cultural tourism economy through innovation. During the holiday period, the industry continued to deepen the integration of various consumption formats such as online and offline communication, commercial travel, culture, and sports, supporting the innovation of diversified consumption scenes, continuously expanding development space, and further promoting the stable development of the consumer market and the improvement of the economy. This article is selected from the official WeChat account of the State Post Bureau, edited by GMTEight: Liu Jiayin.