How does the courier company make money?

Express companies make money in the following ways:

1, main business

The main business of express delivery company is to receive and send express mail, taking the express mail with the weight of 1 kg as an example. The cost of 5 yuan (single 2 yuan, delivery fee 1 yuan, delivery fee 1 yuan, other fees 1 yuan) is generally 10 yuan for customers, and the express station can earn 5 yuan.

At the same time, the heavier the express mail, the more fees need to be charged. Different companies have different standards, generally 6-8 yuan/kg, while the payment cost of express delivery station is only 1 yuan/kg. In addition, the franchisee will also pay a commission of 1 yuan for each courier delivered by the courier station.

2. Advertising business

The area responsible for the express delivery point has a strong directivity. For example, some express delivery points only face the community, so some enterprises mainly engaged in community business, such as health care product sellers, education and training institutions, are willing to cooperate with express delivery points.

3. Sales business

Sales business mainly refers to the sales of packaging boxes, generally in 2 yuan -2.5 yuan, with gross profit margin between 100%- 150%. A courier receives 100 pieces of express mail almost every day. A courier station generally has four or five couriers, that is, four or five hundred express mails. Most customers don't prepare express parcels themselves, and the gross profit of sales is 300-400 yuan a day, 10,000 yuan a month and several hundred thousand yuan a year.

4. Other businesses

The biggest resource of express station is a distribution network. For enterprises and households in the region, occasionally do some part-time food delivery content, such as helping some take-away enterprises to deliver food during lunch break. Although it is not the mainstream, it also earns several thousand yuan a month, which is enough for the express station to offset the management fees, rental fees, utilities and other expenses.

Extended data

Service companies derived from door-to-door logistics activities with postal functions are called courier companies, which use railway, highway, aviation and other modes of transportation to deliver customers' goods quickly.

Express companies can operate on different scales, from serving specific towns to serving regional, transnational and even global services. The major express delivery companies in China include SF Express, Yuejin Express, Best Express, ZJS Express, ZTO Express, Shentong Express, Tong Yuan Express, Dayun Express and Guo Tong Express.

The express delivery industry is also booming, and the market is so vast that more and more entrepreneurs join the express delivery industry. Matters needing attention when joining a courier company:

Including thousands to tens of thousands of one-time franchise fees, each courier company has different prices; The delivery quantity of each piece (according to the agreed price); Hire a courier to be responsible for food, accommodation, utilities, wages, etc. ; Others are transportation, telephone, bills, leather goods and so on. We need a cashier, a telephone receiver and some couriers.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-express company