Although China's State Post Bureau recently announced the "Real-Name System for Express Deliveries" – which requires the inspection of parcels on-site and the recording of customers' ID information whenever they send or receive a parcel – Shanghai has still not implemented it. Despite the new regulations, it appears that many express delivery companies, in a bid to save time and improve efficiency, have more or less skipped that whole "on-site parcel inspection" step. One customer raised concerns about the new system: "In the past, parcels already had a way of disappearing every once in a while; what's going to happen now that express delivery clerks will know when I am shipping something valuable?" Other customers have complained about the hassle of needing to bring their ID with them, as well as concerns about their personal information being stolen. A series of new national standards for express delivery services will be implemented on May 1st, although none of them contain regulations relevant to the real-name system, which is currently only being run as a pilot project in Zhejiang Province.

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