As the largest shopping bonanza in the world kicked off on November 11, a small but persistent complaint served as a reminder: Please remember to be kind to the delivery people.
With the State Post Bureau predicting a daily average of 490 million packages will be shipped across China during the sales period, delivery companies are going through a stress test on how to handle the mountains of packages bought by people online.
Alibaba said that it saw an average of 583,000 orders per second on Tmall.com – its largest shopping platform – just 4 seconds after midnight on November 11. Alibaba is the parent company of Inkstone.
The sheer volume of transactions means peak season for delivery wor
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Nov 12, 2020