Early the next morning, the three major e-commerce platforms—Pinbei, Tmall, and Jingdong—successively released their sales reports for the Double Eleven Grand Promotion.
Pinbei: 23.76 billion!
Tmall: 34.92 billion!
Jingdong: 10.34 billion!
The three e-commerce giants reached a total single-day sales volume of 69.02 billion, just a stone's throw away from the 70 billion mark.
On November 11th, the courier industry handled 173 million parcels, a year-over-year increase of 73% and nearly six times the usual daily volume.
Instantly, courier sorting centers, major service stations, and the couriers themselves all went into overdrive, racing against the clock to speed up parcel processing and prevent backlogs.
Over a hundred thousand Cloud Speed Couriers across the country were busy in a bittersweet state of pain and pleasure, their workload having tripled or even quadrupled.
The "pain" was the sheer number of parcels—there were too many to deliver. It was simply impossible!
