Beijing Today (June 23, 2006)

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BEIJING TODAY FRIDAY JUNE 23 2006 NO. 264 CN11-0120 HTTP://BJTODAY.YNET.COM

CHIEF EDITOR: JIAN RONG NEWS EDITOR: HOU MINGXIN DESIGNER: ZHAO YAN

Walk into Italian baroque luminaries at the Wall. Page 12

Power up – ways to energize your days. Page 19

Riding the rails to the splendor of Tibet. Page 20

Beijing Customs nabs foreign drug smugglers Page 7

Xinhua Photo

Bridge on the Roof of the World

Symbol of the old and new Tibet, a 928.85 meters bridge, carries the newly-opened Qinghai – Tibet Railway , under the Potala in Lhasa.

Fakers find express mail gets the goods out By Chu Meng China Post Office’s Express Mail System (EMS), which offers express carrier and package delivery services, is being used by counterfeiters as an easy way to send fake goods made in China abroad. He Pei, from the Beijing Exporting Mail Postal Administration, part of China Post Office, confirmed yesterday morning that “All illegal EMS services from Beijing Southern Post Office have now been shut

down. Members of staff involved have been suspended pending an investigation. ” He said Southern Post Office was one of four lower level post offices – the others are the Eastern, Western and Haidian Post Offices – under the administration. The Southern Office is exclusively in charge of China Post (Beijing) Office’s EMS services. An online sneaker shop owner who goes by the nickname ‘Happy Pig’ is a long-term user of EMS services, “I

have been selling fake Nike and Adidas sneakers online to customers abroad for three years. EMS is the only safe way to ship to my foreign customers.” He explained that he received online orders from America, Canada, Italy, Germany, Britain and Japan, and would then buy the requested goods from Silk Street Market and Hong Qiao Market. He would then contact Zhou Daren, a staff member at the Southern Post Office in charge of transacting international EMS appli-

cations. “The profits are double what traders at the street markets make, even taking the international EMS shipping fees into account. Take a pair of Nike shoes for example. They cost about 100 yuan for me to buy, then the EMS fee is 315 yuan. But Zhou cut it down to 150, 50 percent off, for long-term customers like me. Besides, foreign buyers pay the fees. Southern Post Office is the only post office in Beijing that cooperates with people selling fake goods.”

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