China Youth Daily client news (China Youth Daily, China Youth Network trainee reporter Han Biao) Recently, a car of "special" express delivery in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, has aroused widespread concern from all walks of life. The details of the courier manifest show that most of the goods transported are pets of precious breeds such as mixed-race border herders and mixed-race blue cats. However, the courier delivery box is actually mostly ordinary earth dogs and earth cats. Liu Junhai, a professor at the Law School of Chinese Min University, pointed out that the blind box economy developed by using people's "small and broad" psychology has changed its flavor, and behind it has exposed many problems such as inadequate supervision of express delivery companies, non-self-discipline of merchants, and irrationality of consumers.
On May 3, caring people found more than 160 cats and dogs packaged at the Lotus Pond Express outlet in Jinniu District, Chengdu, which were preparing to be sent to all parts of the country as ordinary goods, and Zhongtong Express and the shipper did not show the relevant cat and dog quarantine certificates.
On May 5, the Chengdu Postal Administration stepped in to deal with the matter. That night, ZTO Express issued a briefing saying that the online sales of e-commerce customers of this batch of live animal platforms, the company has suspended the live animal collection business of relevant outlets, cooperated with the investigation of relevant departments, and the relevant responsible persons were suspended for inspection and carried out comprehensive self-inspection and rectification.
The more than 160 pet cats and dogs rescued by caring people this time are "commodities" that are publicly sold as "pet blind boxes". China Youth Daily · China Youth Network reporter in a number of e-commerce platform search found that "cat and dog blind box", "turtle blind box", "hamster blind box", "lizard blind box" and other live blind boxes are countless, the price ranges from more than ten yuan to thousands of yuan, many sellers also wrote on the cover map, "play is exciting."
The blind box was originally a toy box with a "surprise on the lid", but now it has been continuously developed into a market chaos of "everything can be blinded" and has become the "wealth password" of many merchants. Multiple "pet blind box" buyers said that the pets received are usually dead or basically live for less than a week. These "problem pets" are often rejected or returned, and the dead pets in the postal process will be directly discarded by the merchant.
Liu Junhai introduced that Article 33 of the Postal Law stipulates that it is forbidden to send or carry all kinds of live animals in the mail. The Animal Epidemic Prevention Law, which came into effect on May 1 this year, also clearly stipulates that for the transportation and delivery of live animals, if animals and animal products are transported by air, railway, road or waterway, the shipper shall provide a quarantine certificate when checking in.
Liu Junhai said that all operations and transportation involving animals must strictly follow the relevant provisions of the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law and perform relevant statutory duties for epidemic prevention. In the process of sending live pets, units and individuals engaged in animal breeding, management, transportation and other activities must strictly do a good job in animal epidemic prevention work such as immunization, disinfection, isolation, and harmless treatment, and undertake the heavy responsibility of animal epidemic prevention.
The market has eyes, the law has teeth. Liu Junhai pointed out that platform enterprises are the first responsible person for the implementation of the Animal Epidemic Prevention Law and the E-commerce Law, and must stand up for the good treatment of animals, protect the rights and interests of consumers, implement the national legal system, put up a good whistle, and control the pass, and effectively eliminate the moral hazards and legal risks in the "pet blind box" business model from the source.
According to the memories of caring people in Chengdu who participated in the rescue operation of the "pet blind box", the outside of each pet cage has a woven pocket, which is poor in air permeability, coupled with the fact that the van is a fully enclosed space, many pets have dangerous situations such as lack of water and lack of oxygen when rescued, which is heart-wrenching.
On April 22, the police station of the Qihe County Public Security Bureau in Dezhou City, Shandong Province, received a special package. Parents said their children bought an unknown fish online, but took it home and found a crocodile about half a meter long and aggressive. Identified by local safari staff, this crocodile is a Thai crocodile, up to three months old, and can grow to more than 3 meters when adult. It is reported that the courier company that undertakes the parcel transportation is also Zhongtong Express.
Many netizens left messages condemning such behavior: "Only heartache, may every little life be treated kindly", "Must be strictly investigated and severely punished, too cruel", "Please respect life, adhere to the bottom line", "Play blind box, the heart can not be blind!" ”。
Liu Junhai said that the "pet blind box" that caused public indignation this time is not only that express delivery companies and merchants transport live animals illegally and illegally, but also that the entire trading process is filled with disregard for animal life, making the surprise of the blind box become "frightening".
Behind the "blindness of all things" is an immature and irrational consumption model. Liu Junhai pointed out that under the blind box economy, consumers still enjoy the right to know and other legitimate rights and interests. Merchants must not try to take advantage of the loopholes of the e-commerce platform and the "black box play" of the blind box to escape supervision, and put the defective problem pet or "three no products" into the blind box for sale, otherwise they will face penalties. (Image from Weibo netizen video screenshot)
Source: China Youth Daily client