"If you pay the right price, it will be a loss." How to send a parcel at 1,500 won "half price."

YTN Radio (FM 94.5) [YTN News FM Wise Radio Life]
□ Broadcast Date: October 30, 2024 (Wednesday)
□ Host: Announcer Park Gui-bin
□ Castor: Jeong Chang-hwa, Director of Logistics Policy, Incheon Metropolitan City

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◆ Announcer Park Gui-bin (hereinafter referred to as Park Gui-bin): Living white paper, today we are with Incheon City. For the first time in the country, Incheon City is implementing a "half-price delivery service" in which small business owners can use parcels at half the price. On October 28th, the 'No. 1' half-price parcel was sent. For more information, I will talk to Jung Chang-hwa, head of the logistics policy department of Incheon Metropolitan City.

◇ Jeong Chang-hwa, Director of Logistics Policy Division, Incheon Metropolitan City (hereinafter referred to as Jeong Chang-hwa): Yes, hello.

◆Park Gui-bin: Incheon City implemented the first half-price delivery support project for small business owners in the country? Please briefly introduce what kind of business it is.

◇ Jung Chang-hwa: Yes. Until now, small business owners with low sales volume have been in a difficult environment to compete in logistics due to the expansion of large companies' entry into online and offline markets and the low-cost offensive of overseas direct purchase platforms. To sign a contract with a courier company, the average monthly delivery volume should be about 100, but 72% of small business owners in Incheon have an average monthly delivery volume of around 10, making it difficult to contract with existing courier companies and have to pay a high unit price when signing a contract. To solve these problems, Incheon City has implemented a demonstration project to lower the unit price of delivery by collecting the delivery volume of small business owners and signing contracts with existing delivery companies in batches, and to provide pickup and same-day delivery services for a single volume. As a result of requesting a performance analysis for this project, it confirmed positive effects such as improving delivery speed, same-day delivery, and reducing delivery costs, increasing annual sales of small business owners by 10.7% and reducing carbon emissions by more than 25%. Accordingly, in order to expand this effect to all 370,000 small business owners in Incheon, Incheon City has promoted the "Incheon Small Business Half-price Delivery Support Project" linking Incheon Subway Lines 1 and 2 for the first time in the country.

◆Park Gui-bin: Since the package is half the price, it will be very helpful to small business owners in Incheon. Please tell me how it is done and how cheap it is.

◇ Jung Chang-hwa: If a small business owner takes the delivery volume and puts it in the collection center installed in Incheon subway station, it can be used from 1,500 won, which is more than 50% cheaper than the average delivery fee of 3,500 won in the market. In the case of small business owners who are difficult to bring directly to the subway station, the collection company visits the small business owner directly and picks up and delivers the goods. In this case, you can use it from 2,500 won, which is 25% cheaper. For reference, 30 collection centers in the subway station are currently installed and operated first, and from October next year, we plan to expand and operate all 57 stations.

◆Park Gui-bin: This is the first project to be implemented in Incheon? You must have prepared a lot.

◇ Changhwa Jung: In April this year, we established the 'Incheon Small Business Half-price Delivery Support Project' linking the subway for the first time in the country and signed a three-way business agreement between Incheon City, Incheon Small Business Association, and Incheon Transportation Corporation to establish a business support system. In August, through a public offering, Hanjin Courier was selected for general delivery and V2V for same-day delivery, and the facility construction for 30 courier collection centers and 5 sub-collection centers in subway stations was completed in October, and Incheon Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok sent the first Incheon courier through an open event on the 28th.

◆Park Gui-bin: Please promote it briefly so that 370,000 small business owners in Incheon can participate with a lot of interest.

◇ Changhwa Jung: Currently, more than 2,500 small business owners have applied to reduce delivery costs. Our small business owners can use courier service 50% cheaper than the market average price if you directly receive the delivery goods at the collection center installed in the station of Incheon Subway Line 1 and 2. Even a single quantity is delivered quickly and accurately to the desired place. Small business owners who want to participate can contact the customer center (1544-6213) or search the "Incheon Small Business Half-price Delivery Support Project" on the Internet search box and apply online. Incheon City will do its best to promote the project so that the half-price courier support project can be a strong support for small business owners. Please pay a lot of attention to small business owners so that the project can be promoted successfully.

◆Park Gui-bin: Thank you for your words today. Until now, I was Jeong Chang-hwa, head of the logistics policy department of Incheon Metropolitan City.