Even so, some cost expenditures seem unavoidable. For example, different cities in the country have their own regulations for express delivery transport vehicles. Some transport vehicles that are unobstructed in the north cannot enter urban areas in the south. This situation indirectly reduces the utilization rate of distribution sites and affects the efficiency and accuracy of delivery time for goods. "Currently, the only way to solve the above bottleneck is by purchasing transport vehicles recognized by local departments," Sun Jian stated, which is another additional expense for companies. Therefore, last year, YTO Express took advantage of the opportunity when some regions had production or semi-production enterprises dealing with transport vehicles. They respectively purchased 69 transport vehicles from Liuzhou Yuanhong Logistics Te Cai Yi Cai Jing Company and Tianjin Anda Group at prices of 65,000 yuan and 40,000 yuan per vehicle, in order to improve YTO's fast work efficiency in the local area. Nowadays, what YTO can do is "through various investments, try to achieve the best synergy between the information flow (such as order response processing efficiency), capital flow, and logistics in the express delivery process. Only then can a sustainable cost control model be found," Sun Jian said. Although he knows it cannot be accomplished overnight. Low prices and constantly rising operating costs keep courier companies trapped in the whirlpool of vicious competition. Accompanied by a series of incidents such as warehouse overflows, suspensions, and price increases, the "restructuring of the courier industry" has been frequently discussed. The result of vicious competition is that after eliminating a batch of small courier companies with weak funds, even larger courier enterprises are not spared. In February 2010, private courier giant DDS collapsed due to a broken capital chain before the Spring Festival of the Tiger Year. Prior to this, the once extremely popular same-city delivery company Xiaohongma also exited the courier market after 10 years of existence due to its inability to bear the micro-profit competition. Facing the merciless market, there is a saying within the private courier industry: whoever raises prices first dies first, and whoever doesn't raise prices waits to die.