Are you an Amazon seller? How do you handle the delivery? Fulfill the order by your own warehouse or with the help of a drop-shipping company?
More and more e-commerce sellers tend to cooperate with order fulfillment company in the last few years. However, some entrepreneurs begin to wonder if this is a good option in the Post-COVID World. So what is the truth? China Division will discuss this question with you in today’s blog.
Order Fulfillment is the process of storing, packaging and shipping e-commerce items. A drop shipping company needs to keep items on display in a physical brick and mortar store or provide a hard copy or online product catalog to enable customers to review items before purchasing. But influenced by COVID-19 and freight increases, is it a beneficial choice for the e-commerce companies?
We can find some reasons by tracing its history back at least to last century.
In 1984, China Post launched China’s first express service, which was the very first step about developing China’s express industry, as well as the drop shipping. In 2018, 507 million parcels were delivered, express courier companies in China on average provided services for 280 million people in a single day. 78.9% of the parcels were delivered within 72 hours.
China’s courier companies have ranked first in the world in terms of processed volume for five consecutive years. Over the past 70 years, China’s logistics has embraced a large quantity of progress. In short words, these development brings much more capabilities and possibilities for the Chinese drop shipping.
In addition, many overseas order fulfillment agencies and offline stores had closed for COVID-19. At the same time, China had recovered from this epidemic gradually, which means we can arrange more and more workers and resources for the orfer fulfillment. So you can choose a Chinese third-party logistics company to enjoy more advantages in this banner year for catastrophe.
