Anyone in Shanghai who pays a little attention will find that the newsstands that used to be all over the street corners in Shanghai have become a passing cloud, and now they can't find where to buy a newspaper. Newspapers and magazines are issued by the post office, and almost every post office has its own newspaper and periodical store department, but now with the rapid development of the Internet in recent years, the gradual transformation and reduction of the paper media, the newspaper and periodical store department of the post office has also faded from people's sight. But on Wusong Road on Beihaining Road, there is still a newspaper outlet of the Shanghai Hongkou Post Branch that is still operating.
The salesman here is named Jiang Jun, from the young man who was less than 30 years old to the 63-year-old uncle now, he has been silently sticking to this post for more than 30 years, which is also the only remaining newspaper and periodical store in more than 500 postal service business places in 16 municipal districts of Shanghai, there are a total of more than 300 kinds of newspapers and magazines, he can be very skilled in counting, and the specific part is also known, you can pick it up. Although the shaved head of the old Ginger has long passed the retirement age, he is still in this only 12 square meters of "newspaper pile" in a single business, even the New Year festival never rests, 365 days, open every day, every day on time to work and commute, never late to leave early.
According to reports, most of the frequent newspaper stores are elderly readers, and occasionally there are young people, who come here almost every day to buy newspapers and periodicals that they love to read. Some even live on the outskirts of the city, and a zhong laobo who takes the subway line 17 from Qingpu every week to buy newspapers and periodicals has purchased more than 20 kinds of newspapers and magazines on the spot, and packed a large bag of happy loads. According to Lao Jiang, there are indeed many loyal old customers like Zhong Laobo, although the road is far, they will come to buy newspapers and periodicals rain or shine, "How can I rest, if I am not there, I will fail such a customer, I really can't bear it. . . . . " Lao Jiang said frankly.
Old Ginger here is still a temporary "emergency point", some people forget to wear masks in the car, come to him to ask where to buy, old Ginger will immediately help to give a rescue. Nowadays, what worries Lao Jiang the most is that there is no successor so far, no one is willing to come to this only newspaper and periodical store department in Shanghai to "take over", and it is also possible that in the near future, the newspaper and periodical store department that he has insisted on for more than 30 years will also disappear.
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