Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. I will know if they will arrive on time only tomorrow. I decide to take the risk, pay 35 kuai and send the documents. After five minutes of discussion, they agree that it’s not sure he can accept my doc as SF Express only sends to Honk Kong downtown and we don’t know where is the address I want to send the docs to. Therefore I call Feng and put her on the phone with the roundsman. In these cases, the only solution I know is to call a Chinese person that can translate for me. Then he reconsiders it and starts to speak in Chinese, so fast that I don’t get the point. He watches me and decides to make me happy by accepting my docs. “If you don’t accept my documents, I will have to come back also tomorrow…” Feeling quite ridiculous, I try to “menace” him: He takes a puff from his cigarette and tells me he’s only delivering. Without thinking, I ask him if he can send my docs. I almost don’t believe what I see, when I arrive close to my building and I notice an SF Express’s roundsman delivering some heavy boxes. When I arrive at the address I got from the telephone operator – for which I paid as the address was not available on the internet, – instead of SF Express (顺丰, Shun Feng in Mandarin), I find a supermarket 顺福 (Shun Fu), which is pronounced in a similar way but has nothing to do with express post service… f*ckin’ operator!ĭisplaying surprising self-control, I give up to imprecate and walk till my home resigned to fly to Hong Kong. Since my apartment is almost impossible to find and my Chinese is not good enough to guide a lost roundsman, I decided to visit S.F.’s offices. Then I started to look for an express post service and I found two of them: EMS and SF Express, the Chinese DHL.Īsking my friends, I discovered EMS doesn’t guarantee that my docs will arrive in Hong Kong tomorrow. Why am I starting this blog with such a post? The answer is that this morning I had to choose between sending a signed document to Hong Kong and making it arrives tomorrow morning or going there, losing two days and having to pay for the plane ticket and the hotel. The good news is that, in the end, you will always find a cavil that solves the situation… you just need faith. I guess my approximate knowledge of the language doesn’t help, but there are so many laws that vary from one province to another and so many offices you have to pass through, that gets to a point where nobody knows what to do is quite common.įurther, if the documents you are looking for need some information coming from abroad, for instance, your foreign passport, then you may be sure that some problems will arise, independently of the fact you need to renew your resident permit, sign a cell phone contract with China Mobile or ask for a rent receipt at your bank. So far, the Chinese one is the most difficult I found. It is that simple!Įvery time I change country, I crash against local bureaucracy.

Express website and insert the track number. For tracking your documents, just go to S.F. He will take your order and let you a receipt with a track number.

The operators speak English and the delivery boy will usually find you within one hour. This story tells about my first experience with SF Express ( Shun Feng), which delivers documents and goods within one day everywhere in China and Hong Kong.īefore I used to go to a Chinese post office and utilize the EMS service, but with SF Express you only need to call the 4008 111 111 and tell them where to go in order to get your documents and send them overnight.

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