Coupang Night Courier 95% Opposed... "Restrict Night Delivery, Irrational"

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Most of the Coupang delivery drivers expressed their opposition to the results of the Ministry of Employment and Labor's research service that night working hours should be limited to 40 to 46 hours a week.

According to an emergency survey of 2,098 couriers from the 6th to the 7th by the Coupang Partners Association (CPA), a group of Coupang courier stores, 91.5% of the respondents opposed limiting night delivery hours to 40 to 46 hours per week.

CPA is an organization that includes 10,000 consigned couriers from Coupang. Currently, more than 20,000 consignment couriers and 6,500 full-time couriers are on duty at Coupang.

92.2% of the survey respondents said, "If night delivery time is reduced, we have to find other jobs to make a living." 90% of the respondents said that normal early morning delivery would not be possible if night delivery restrictions were implemented. 54.4% of the respondents said they would "get another job by reducing their income," while 35.9% chose to "quit the courier job and move to another job." 7.8% said they would continue night delivery as before, and only 1.9% said they would switch to day delivery.

In addition, 94.7% and 93.9% of the respondents chose against the plan to limit the maximum number of night deliveries per month to 12 and limit the number of consecutive night deliveries to four days, respectively.

CPA said, "Actually, night-time on-site quickplacers recognize that the restriction is actually a structure that makes dawn delivery impossible."

The reasonable plan that Quick Placers thought was adjustment by individual and site, not uniform early morning delivery restrictions. For adequate night delivery time, 16.8% of respondents preferred 55 to 60 hours per week and 14.2% preferred 50 to 55 hours per week. In addition, 42.9% of the respondents chose 21-23 for the appropriate number of night delivery days as of one month, and 51.1% of the respondents chose 24-26 days.

Most of the quick-placers wanted a rest guarantee rather than a delivery time regulation. 85.2% of the respondents chose to guarantee voluntary closure, and 14.8% of the respondents wished to designate a mandatory holiday. On the other hand, less than 4% of respondents agreed to uniformly limit the number of deliveries and time limits, including the limit on continuous night delivery (2.6%) and the maximum number of deliveries per month (0.8%).

"We have seen that the industry's perspective on night-time quick-flexers is really for them, not for night-time delivery, but for how to make it sustainable," CAP said.

On the same day, the CPA submitted 3,500 copies of a petition to the office of Rep. Lee Yong-woo of the Democratic Party of Korea, saying, "Please protect jobs and livelihoods together."

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