Many people don't know how an order can arrive at their home in just one day. In China, home deliveries are a craze. Everyone orders things all the time. The Asian giant has the largest online commerce market on the planet, with an average of 125 packages per person, per year. That's one order every three days. Companies compete fiercely. And the deliveries are handled by an army of motorcyclists on electric scooters, each with a metal box on the back.
DPD, which reported pre-tax profits of nearly 200m last year and raised the pay of its highest-paid director by 90,000 to 1.5m including bonuses, told self-employed drivers it was unilaterally cutting their delivery rates. The drivers said the move would cost them about 6,000 each per year or up to 8,000 for those who take on extra deliveries at Christmas.
Undercover reporters from The Sun discovered that immigrants staying at hotels funded by taxpayers were able to quickly obtain delivery jobs through various media platforms.
The commercial auto insurance industry has long struggled to adapt to the rapidly evolving on-demand economy, leaving millions of rideshare and delivery drivers underserved by traditional providers that weren't designed for their unique needs.