State Post Office: The total delivery business volume of the postal industry completed 49.64 billion units in the first quarter, an increase of 19% year-on-year

The Zhitong Finance App learned that data from the National Post Office shows that in March, the postal industry completed 18.27 billion deliveries, an increase of 18.1% over the previous year. Among them, the express delivery business volume reached 16.66 billion units, an increase of 20.3% over the previous year. In March, the postal industry's business revenue reached 152.52 billion yuan, an increase of 7.8% over the previous year. Among them, the express delivery business revenue reached 124.60 billion yuan, an increase of 10.4% over the previous year.

In the first quarter, the postal industry completed a total of 49.64 billion deliveries, an increase of 19.0% over the previous year. Among them, the express delivery business completed a total of 45.14 billion units, an increase of 21.6% over the previous year.

In the first quarter, the total express delivery business volume in the same city reached 3.62 billion units, an increase of 3.0%; the total number of offsite express delivery services reached 40.5 billion units, an increase of 23.5% over the previous year; and the total number of international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan express delivery business reached 1.03 billion units, an increase of 25.8% over the previous year.

In the first quarter, the postal mail business completed a total of 200 million items, a year-on-year decrease of 15.5%; the package business completed a total of 6.816 million units, an increase of 2.3%; the newspaper business completed 4.14 billion copies, a year-on-year decrease of 1.6%; the magazine business completed 160 million copies, a year-on-year decrease of 5.5%; and the exchange business completed a total of 533,000 copies, a year-on-year decrease of 27.4%.

In the first quarter, the postal industry's business revenue (excluding the direct operating income of the Postal Savings Bank) totaled 424.4 billion yuan, an increase of 7.6% over the previous year. Among them, the total revenue from the express delivery business reached 345.64 billion yuan, an increase of 10.9% over the previous year.

In the first quarter, same-city, offsite, international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan express delivery business accounted for 8.0%, 89.7%, and 2.3% of the total express delivery business volume, respectively. Compared with the same period last year, the share of express delivery business in the same city decreased by 1.5 percentage points, the share of offsite express delivery business increased 1.4 percentage points, and the share of international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan business increased 0.1 percentage points.

In the first quarter, the share of express delivery business in the East, Central and Western regions was 71.3%, 19.5%, and 9.2%, respectively, and the share of business revenue was 73.7%, 15.6%, and 10.7%, respectively. Compared with the same period last year, the share of express delivery business in the eastern region decreased by 1.5 percentage points, and the share of express delivery business revenue decreased by 0.8 percentage points; the share of express delivery business in the central region increased by 0.9 percentage points, and the share of express delivery business revenue increased by 0.5 percentage points; the share of express delivery business in the western region increased by 0.6 percentage points, and the share of express delivery business revenue increased 0.3 percentage points.

In the first quarter, the CR8 brand concentration index for express delivery and parcel services was 86.9, down 0.2 from January-February.

This article was selected from the “State Post Office” official account, Zhitong Finance Editor: Li Fu.