Her Cultivation Diary
Chapter 933 - 915. Express Delivery Choice

Chapter 933: 915. Express Delivery Choice

"I never thought I would sell something so cheap."

Song Tan looked at the link Zhang Yanping had prepared, her expression distant and reflective.

"Nonsense," the underworld cousin disagreed:

"These are links to other people’s stores, ours is still upscale as always—besides, the packing fees, postage, and labor costs are all applied for by Secretary Xiaozu from above, and our price is still based on 6.2 yuan per gram... where’s the cheapness? It’s not cheap at all."

"They’re charging 12.9 yuan per item, and that includes packaging labor and express delivery, not to mention the cost of customer service after the sale..."

Zhang Yanping began to take pride: "Since you’re family, I guess you won’t mind me picking up another side job, right?"

There are no young people left in the village now, so customer service work is temporarily handed over to Zhang Yanping, who only has to monitor the messaging backend, 1000 yuan a month.

Song Tan shook her head: "There’s not much to sell in our shop, just night shifts are a bit tough. As long as I have the energy, I wouldn’t mind taking on a couple more responsibilities."

Having said that, she sighed over the low price of her homemade hand cream:

"A hand mask sells for only 12.9 yuan, these days xx Lin’s hand masks are selling for thirty or forty yuan a set, and that’s just for three pairs!"

"What?" Zhang Yanping was also surprised and opened the Taotao Treasure app: "Money from you girls is so easy to earn—I’ll take a look, this is a big brand! They add a lot of stuff..."

Song Tan huffed: "It’s yet to be seen whose product is more effective."

However awkward it felt, the deal was set, and her own business was able to take off, thanks in large part to Qiaoqiao’s fans who were brave enough to try...

"12.9 yuan it is, they do it to give back to their fans, and we’re also giving back to ours, I’m going to provide them with a huge gift package for the New Year too!"

Good lord! Zhang Yanping was astonished: "What kind of gift package? You never mentioned it before?"

Song Tan said offhandedly: "I haven’t thought it through, just throw in whatever there is, including that hand cream, the remaining two thousand units might as well not go on the shelf but be direct gifts in the live broadcast room for the New Year."

This is like plucking feathers from a steel rooster!

Zhang Yanping lamented: "It seems competition is necessary, regardless of whether they can keep up with you or not. With someone there, you two compete over who pampers the fans more, it’s good, it’s good... Online friends these days are really sincere, sometimes they are more reliable than the friends by your side!"

Just as they were talking, Brother Xiaozhang came by in his vehicle:

"Eh?" Song Tan was puzzled: "Didn’t you say you would come after two o’clock?" It was just one o’clock in the afternoon now.

Brother Xiaozhang said with a look of grievance: "I heard you were discussing express delivery with the local courier companies... My job’s on the line, how can I not be anxious about it?"

"Oh that...," Song Tan sighed helplessly: "That’s not my business, it’s Secretary Xiaozu negotiating for the village."

With the base of these 100,000 orders, we could negotiate the lowest express delivery fees, not just for now but for a long-term cooperation in the future.

"On such a significant matter of supporting agriculture, I can also apply for subsidies from above."

Brother Xiaozhang sighed, his long-standing pride and sense of security vanished without a trace with the rise of a competitor.

Zhang Yanping gestured dismissively: "Your Wind Speed Express focuses on timeliness and home delivery, no matter the subsidy, you can’t negotiate below three yuan for each parcel, no matter how small."

"But do you know how the local courier companies negotiate? They can offer two yuan. That’s because they can’t guarantee shipments every month, and if they don’t concentrate on one express company, it’s possible to get down to one yuan fifty."

With such calculations, if the price difference per parcel is more than half, considering the long run, it’s definitely time to let go of Wind Speed Express.

Moreover, relying on only one delivery service was never a safe bet to begin with.

Brother Xiaozhang’s disappointment is understandable to everyone; seeing riches slip through one’s fingers would make anyone feel this way.

Zhang Yanping quickly consoled him: "It’s okay, they have their own business, but don’t you also have us? Look at these mountains and lands, online sales are bound to increase even more next year."

Brother Xiaozhang was skeptical: "Don’t you have your own wholesale partners? Aren’t you going to continue with wholesale next year?"

"What wholesale partners?" Yanping disagreed: "They are our strategic partners—of course, we cooperate, but we can’t rely solely on others. Don’t worry, we will definitely have plenty of deliveries next year."

Their products are high-priced; using an ordinary courier service and having even a slight issue during delivery can easily put people off.

Consistently using Wind Speed Express with guaranteed door-to-door service perfectly matches the positioning of their products!

With this in mind, Brother Xiaozhang finally felt at ease.

He stood up: "What about today’s orders? I’ll pack them—oh right, your hand cream, is it safe for pregnant women to use?"

His wife is pregnant, and with the cold weather, her skin is dry, her hands and feet are swollen, and she’s even peeling... in short, she’s having a tough time.

So even though Qiaoqiao had previously said that the hand cream was 188 yuan per tube, he was willing to buy it if it worked.

"Yes, it can be used." Song Tan said candidly: "Just for the hands and feet... For the sake of pregnant women, you can take three tubes to get through the winter. We won’t sell the rest."

"Great, great, great!" Brother Xiaozhang wholly believed in Song Tan’s word: "I’ll transfer the money to you right now."

"No rush, no rush." Song Tan sighed: "It’s not ready yet; wait until they finish making this batch in the mountains and send it off before coming back."

A hundred thousand units, that’s quite a large workload indeed.

Meanwhile, upstairs in the study, Grandmother Tang was teaching Qiaoqiao the basics of Go, while at the same time getting him accustomed to the game. On the side, Professor Song took the opportunity to ask her:

"See, I told you that you’d like them. Otherwise, why would you spill everything out, even things you shouldn’t have said?"

Grandmother Tang snorted: "This family consists of sensible people."

The average person wouldn’t be bothered to explain so much and might even face complaints.

After saying that, she glared at Professor Song: "You too, you’re obsessed with pushing them into competitions, even hoping to enter the international stage... I know our country’s seeds are far behind, but that’s the work of a lifetime, something that can’t be rushed."

"You think only about sending them out, but have you thought about their land, together with the pasture, not exceeding 600 acres... such a small piece of land, what farm is of that scale?"

"If I don’t push them, by the time others get envious of their successful business and start encircling and claiming the land around them, there will be troubles aplenty."

Small-scale operations are always prone to be looked down upon and taken advantage of. Larger scales, on the other hand, are less likely to be messed with.

Professor Song remained cheerful:

"Yes, that’s also what I thought, which is why I’m urging her to enter the competition... hoping that with some recognition, she would develop more ambition."

Sometimes, people are just not swayed by science. Some people focus all their effort on taking care of plants and end up killing even a cactus.

And others? Without great ambitions and in a casual, lazy manner, they scatter seeds and still grow good fruit.

Professor Song, a materialist, has done so much research here and now has to admit with a sense of idealism that when it comes to the genetic ability to farm, passed down from ancestors, there might be some imbalance after all.

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