Price hikes should deliver better service

WITH NOV 11, the country's biggest shopping carnival, on the horizon, three express delivery companies have announced they are raising their prices. The other express delivery companies are expected to follow suit and raise their prices as well. Qianjiang Evening News comments:

The reasons offered by the express delivery companies to defend their price hikes are the same: rising costs in labor, packaging and transportation.

All these costs have indeed risen over the past several years, which has reduced the profit margins of the delivery companies, and there have long been calls from within the industry for prices to be raised.