After 11-11, the real work begins

Two delivery men sort parcels from the Singles Day online shopping frenzy at an express company in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang province, Nov 11. China’s busiest online shopping extravaganza, with retailers offering hefty discounts to lure buyers, was taken up another notch this year. Alibaba-owned Tmall, China's leading B2C e-commerce site, declared a single day turnover of more than 35 billion yuan ($5.75 billion), an 83 percent increase from last year. From Nov 11 to 16, post offices and express companies across the nation will deal with more than 323 million deliveries, according to the State Post Bureau. [icpress.cn]