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Mtz said:I asked some chinese contact about that 1 month stupidity for China Post not working.Alexpatrascu said:]
They're "not working" right now:
"China Post has stopped the service , because it is near Chinese New Year now, and we will begin China Post service on 2013-02-20 "
I think China Post is a little backed up and some sellers prefer to ship with Hong Kong post instead just so they don't have to deal with the delayed packages.
In this 2013 year (you can read also in Wikipedia) the Chinese New Year is on 10 february. Some asian countries have about 2-3 free days in that period with some small differences.
The official chinese holiday is between 9 february to 15 february. So they will work on 8 and 16 february. And 9 and 10 february is saturday and sunday so we can say they will not work just 5 days, not two months as below.
The Chinese New Year is the biggest chinese excuse used to not offer some service. When they don't want to offer something, before one month of New Year and one month after they are blaming not satisfying you because of this holiday.
Chinese have some known lies like:
- Chinese New Year is at least one month and whole country is almost sopped
- our engineers are working to solve the problem (99.99% of the cases there is no engineer)
- excuse that at some moment they don't understand your questions because their english is not good.
And almost all chinese sellers are working also with Singapore Post and Hong Kong Post very easy, like with China Post.
enjoy,
Mtz
there's a bit more to it than that, the Chinese New Year period is only a week long but in recent years it has been stretched out further and further, the issue particularly for places where there's a lot of manufacturing like Shenzhen is that so much of the workforce comes from other areas and Chinese New Year is very much a family time so everybody wants to go and visit their hometown and see their families, in many cases this is the one time each year they might see their families, the problem has been transport, when you get a few hundred million people travelling throughout the country transport is total chaos, in some areas you will get people lining up for a week just to buy a train ticket, in recent years this has caused people to start leaving off earlier and coming back later, it really does mess with the whole month, anyone that is operating is doing so on very minimal staff levels so not a lot gets done, it's a very frustrating time of year when you're trying to get something done but it's the nature of the business unfortunately
working with other agencies such as HK post or Singapore is only appropriate if you have stock there already, otherwise the same problems (and more) exist