The theory only the UK got damaged packages?
No, that was too simplistic. I have followed that rabbit trail a little more though. Hear me out and please pitch in and/or correct me if I'm wrong at any point. That goes for everyone, not just
@rschiks .
- We have two main Chinese airports where packages from both of the main Chinese players are flying out from, Beijing (HDZ) and Shanghai (BF).
- We (when I say we, I mean HDN as a whole) are mostly receiving damaged packages from Blufans, not from HDZ. Having said that I would guess, cooey or another GB host may be able to confirm/deny, that the percentage of damaged packages is still relatively small. Negligible in the case of HDZ.
- China's main western trading partners, according to google sources, are USA (19% of total Chinese exports), Germany (3.1%), Netherlands (3%), UK (2.5%).
- According to wikipedia, Beijing airport moves 95 million people... that's a **** load of people. And moves 1.8 million tons of cargo.
- Also according to wikipedia, Shanghai airport moves 66 million people, that's a lot, not as much as Beijing, but still a lot. Shanghai, however, moves 3.4 million tons of cargo. That's approximately double than the cargo going through Beijing.
- Cargo can be sent over in dedicated cargo airplanes but also in your regular passenger airlines cargo hold. I have not looked into what China Post use, they may use both.
- More passengers in Beijing means more airplanes, more airplanes and half the cargo could mean, in general terms, the cargo doesn't travel as tight.
- In Shanghai we now have double the cargo that needs to fly out in a smaller amount of airplanes... less passenger airplanes at least.
- If we look at the whole picture... We likely have more packed airplanes flying to the USA, UK, Germany and Netherlands than to Spain, for example. That's for either point of origin.
- I have not researched this either, but it wouldn't surprise me if the USA, though it would logically receive a greater amount of cargo than Germany, Netherlands and UK, would probably also have a greater number of flights departing every day than the other three countries. So that could explain why we get more damaged packages in the UK, Germany (and maybe NL?) than the USA.
- Do we also have more regular members from the UK than from the USA, at least regulars for Blufans GBs? I might be completely wrong on this assumption.
But yeah, that's about what I've been able to come up with. None of this rules out any damage to any other package going to France, Italy, Norway, Mexico, Australia, wherever... all I'm trying to explain is why the higher incidence of damaged packages in certain countries and not in others and why this is going to be hard to correct. Unless this is happening at Blufans' warehouse, and I really doubt that's it, then they really have no sure way of solving this because it's not something they can control.
This is just my working theory, I'll keep tweaking it and hopefully something useful will come from it.
P.S. I am making certain assumptions (at first glance they could be reasonable assumptions), like an equal % of cargo being delivered to each country by air as it is by sea. That could be wrong. If it is wrong, then that would also explain why the USA gets less damaged products because out of the 4 main countries I mentioned it is the USA that would likely get most of it's cargo by sea.
