What are the working hours of a courier?

SF Express has people working from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., but the shifts are different. The earliest shift starts at 7 a.m. and the earliest shift ends at 16:45 p.m. In addition, the working hours of SF Express vary from place to place.

1. Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei Province, Shaanxi Province, Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province, Liaoning Province, Gansu Province, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Hubei Province, Hunan Province, Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Yunnan Province, In Ningxia, Henan Province, Shanxi Province, Shandong Province, Lhasa, and Qinghai Province, the working hours of SF Express are generally: 08:00-22:00.

2. Working hours in Zhejiang Province, Jiangsu Province, Fujian Province, Jiangxi Province, and Anhui Province: 08:00-22:00.

3. Shanghai: 08:00-24:00.

4. Working hours in Huizhou, Meizhou, Heyuan and other places in Guangdong: 07:30-00:30.

5. Working hours in other cities in Guangdong: 08:00-24:00.

6. Time in Guangxi, Hainan and other places: 08:00-24:00.

Current status of the courier industry

According to relevant data, in developed countries in Europe and the United States, the logistics industry is one of the important service industries for social operation, and 92% of its managers have a bachelor’s degree. 41% have a master's degree. In our country, there are about 17,000 people with relevant logistics qualifications, of which only 292 have senior logistics professional qualifications. Faced with an annual talent demand of 30,000 to 40,000 people, there is a huge gap of about 6 million logistics talents in my country.

On July 21, 2020, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security ranked 2nd among the 100 shortage occupations for national recruitment in the second quarter of 2020.

On March 22, 2021, the "2020 National Courier Grassroots Employment Status and Employment Satisfaction Survey Report" released by China Post Express Newspaper showed that more than 50% of couriers have a monthly income of no more than 5,000 yuan. Only 1.3% have a monthly income of more than 10,000 yuan. More than 40% of couriers deliver less than 100 pieces per day, and 80% of couriers do not deliver more than 200 pieces per day.