www.wst898.com YTO Express will implement a real-name system.

After the parcel explosion case in Hangzhou on August 14, 2011, a similar case occurred last week in Guangzhou, drawing attention once again to the safety of the delivery process by courier companies. Courier companies in Shanghai assessed that although the real-name system measures piloted for a year in Shaoxing, Zhejiang were effective, they cannot be fully implemented until issues such as efficiency, cost, and privacy are resolved.

Security checks currently cannot achieve full coverage

Last week, a parcel explosion case occurred in Tianhe District, Guangzhou, where the suspect made a homemade bomb and handed it over to a courier company to deliver it to his ex-girlfriend. The suspect used this method to seek revenge on his ex-girlfriend.

On August 14, 2011, a similar explosion case occurred at a YTO Express branch in Hangzhou. In that case, the suspect made an explosive device and asked the courier company to deliver it to his former employer to retaliate against him for being fired. The suspect did not expect that the "homemade bomb" would explode prematurely due to collision and compression during delivery, accidentally injuring an employee of YTO Express.

The two aforementioned cases of parcel bombs exposed safety hazards in the delivery process of courier companies. A large courier company in Shanghai told reporters that there are many shocking examples in this industry. For instance, lawbreakers bring illegal items into hotel rooms and then call courier companies, requesting them to deliver certain items to specific locations with the sender's address being a certain room in the hotel. After the courier company staff leaves with the package, the lawbreakers immediately check out and escape. Even if the courier company or relevant government authorities discover something suspicious in the package, it is difficult to find the sender. Since the Spring Festival, there have been multiple incidents of prohibited items being transported through courier channels.

Currently, the courier industry mainly relies on cargo inspection at the time of collection as the primary preventive measure. Due to the rapid increase in business volume, courier company staff often do not have time to carefully inspect goods step by step. Relevant laws and regulations also do not require courier companies to conduct X-ray security checks on all parcels. Generally, air express and inter-provincial express will be checked through X-ray machines combined with sorting centers and transfer stations' operation processes. Local express parcels, however, are directly delivered. Some courier companies complained that X-ray machines cannot detect all prohibited items.