The Zhitong Finance App learned that on January 22, the State Post Office announced the operation of the postal industry in 2023. In 2023, the total delivery business volume of the postal industry reached 162.48 billion units, an increase of 16.8% over the previous year. Among them, the express delivery business volume (excluding the postal group package business) completed a total of 132.07 billion units, an increase of 19.4% over the previous year. In 2023, the express delivery business volume in the same city reached a total of 13.64 billion units, an increase of 6.6% over the previous year; the total number of offsite express delivery services reached 115.36 billion units, an increase of 20.5% over the previous year; and the total number of international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan express delivery business reached 3.07 billion units, an increase of 52.0% over the previous year.

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The State Post Office announced the operation of the postal industry in 2023

In 2023, the total delivery business volume of the postal industry reached 162.48 billion units, an increase of 16.8% over the previous year. Among them, the express delivery business volume (excluding the postal group package business) completed a total of 132.07 billion units, an increase of 19.4% over the previous year.

In 2023, the express delivery business volume in the same city reached a total of 13.64 billion units, an increase of 6.6%; the total number of offsite express delivery services reached 115.36 billion units, an increase of 20.5% over the previous year; the total number of international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan express delivery business reached 3.07 billion units, an increase of 52.0% over the previous year.

In 2023, the postal mail business completed 970 million items, up 2.7% year on year; the package business completed a total of 24.702 million pieces, up 40.6% year on year; the newspaper business completed a total of 16.70 billion copies, up 0.8% year on year; the magazine business completed 650 million copies, down 5.7% year on year; and the exchange business completed a total of 3.49 million copies, down 19.5% year on year.

In 2023, the postal industry's business revenue (excluding the direct operating income of the Postal Savings Bank) totaled 1529.30 billion yuan, an increase of 13.2% over the previous year. Among them, the total revenue from the express delivery business reached 1207.40 billion yuan, an increase of 14.3% over the previous year.

In December, the postal industry's delivery business volume reached 16.17 billion units, an increase of 26.5% over the previous year. Among them, the express delivery business volume reached 13.26 billion units, an increase of 27.9% over the previous year.

In December, the postal industry's business revenue reached 144.87 billion yuan, an increase of 17.7% over the previous year. Among them, the express delivery business revenue reached 118.88 billion yuan, an increase of 19.2% over the previous year.

In 2023, same-city, offsite, international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan express delivery business volume accounted for 10.3%, 87.4%, and 2.3% of total express delivery business volume, respectively; business revenue accounted for 5.9%, 49.7%, and 11.6% of total express delivery revenue, respectively. Compared with the same period last year, the share of express delivery business in the same city decreased by 1.3 percentage points, the share of offsite express delivery business increased 0.8 percentage points, and the share of international/Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan business increased by 0.5 percentage points.

In 2023, the share of express delivery business in the East, Central and Western regions was 75.2%, 16.7%, and 8.1%, respectively, and the share of business revenue was 76.2%, 14.1%, and 9.7%, respectively. Compared with the same period last year, the share of express delivery business in the eastern region decreased by 1.6 percentage points, and the share of express delivery business revenue decreased by 1.4 percentage points; the share of express delivery business in the central region increased by 1.0 percentage points, and the share of express delivery business revenue increased 0.7 percentage points; the share of express delivery business in the western region increased by 0.6 percentage points, and the share of express delivery business revenue increased by 0.7 percentage points.

In 2023, the CR8 brand concentration index for express delivery and parcel services was 84.0, the same as in January-November.

Note: Due to rounding, some data may not be equal to the sum of the items.

This article was selected from “National Post Office”, Zhitong Finance Editor: Chen Wenfang.