China Post deliveries exceed 73 billion items in January-May, up 21.6% year-on-year - Chinese media

China's State Post Administration announced on the 17th that the postal industry's delivery volume in the first five months of this year reached 73.31 billion items, up 21.6% from the same period last year.
During the same period, the postal industry's operating revenue (excluding the direct operating revenue of the Postal Savings Bank) increased 11.6% year-on-year to 665.64 billion formal (about 14
Of this, total revenue from home delivery services increased 16.6% year-on-year to 537.11 billion yen (approximately 11.69 trillion yen).
Looking at the volume of parcel delivery business by region, the eastern region accounted for 73%, the central region 18.5%, and the western region 8.5%.
The percentage of parcel delivery in the eastern region was 74.8%, the central region was 15%, and the western region was 10.2%. Compared to the same period last year, the volume of parcel delivery in the eastern region was down 2.2 points, the central region was up 1.3 points, and the western region was up 0.9 points.
Revenues from home delivery operations decreased by 1.3 percentage points in the eastern region, increased by 0.7 percentage points in the central region, and increased by 0.6 percentage points in the western region.
Meanwhile, the volume of deliveries in May alone increased 21.3% year-on-year to 16.36 billion deliveries.
In the same month, the volume of parcel delivery services increased by 23.8% year-on-year to 14.78 billion parcels. In the same month, business revenues increased by 12.9% year-on-year to 139.13 billion formal (approximately 3.28 trillion yen). Of this, parcel delivery services
Revenue increased 15.6% year-on-year to 115.99 billion yen (approximately 2.52 trillion yen).