“What only men can do? I do it too!” A day of Chinese female courier

Military pants washed with hot water froze in less than 5 minutes.

When I sprinkled water in the middle of the road, it froze in the air. This is the coldest place in China, Mohe City in Heilongjiang Province.

Mohe City, whose annual average temperature is only minus 5.5 degrees Celsius, spends 7 to 8 months out of the year in severe winter. The lowest temperature in 2020 was -44 degrees Celsius.

Wearing thick padded pants, padded boots, and winter clothes, she is Luhui, a 25-year-old female courier living in Mohe.

At 7 a.m., he and a colleague move the package from the office to an electric car. In the building again, tens of kg of batteries are picked up and loaded into the car.

Due to the extremely cold weather, water vapor sublimates, forming ice mist in the air. There is always thin ice on the ground. His work environment is always like this.

Luhui said that when the electric car is started and the courier arrives at the branch, the delivery must be completed within the specified time. In summer, one battery per day is enough, but in winter the weather is too cold, so the battery consumption speed is much faster, so I needed four or five batteries a day.

He delivers an average of over 100 packages per day. There are times when the road is blocked due to heavy snowfall, and you can barely enter the store until 11 or 12 pm Even at that time, you can get back home only by sorting out the cargo and being struck by the wind.

However, Luhui is an optimistic personality. “When the delivery is too large, there are customers who don’t breathe and run around, but they complain that the delivery is late,” he said with a laugh.

Luhui said, “My husband is also a courier,” and “I can do what a man can do.” While working in the courier industry for more than five years, some people wondered that they were female courier drivers, but he added that he did not feel the need to distinguish between genders.

Luhui, who is 165 cm tall and weighs 55 kg, said she eats much more than other women. “When I was in my teens, my father took me to the mountain to dig things, but if my father weighed 50 kilograms on my back, I also lifted 50 kilograms.”

Winter in Moher is dark at 5 pm. After returning the electric car to the office, Luhui took off his work clothes, changed into padding, and headed home. “I bought a new house in 2020 and have a car, so it’s okay if it’s cold.”

Reference Shinhwa Communication