The waybill refers to a "one-off" written contract between the carrier and the shipper on the transportation of goods.
It is the contract certificate of cargo transportation and transportation agent, and it is also the certificate that the transportation operator accepts the goods and is responsible for keeping and delivering the goods during transportation. It lists the name, packaging, various fees and amounts, port of departure and arrival, consignor and consignee, date of shipment and arrival, and other matters related to cargo transportation.
When consigning goods, the shipper must fill in the waybill according to the regulations. If there are any special transportation requirements, you should make comments in the remarks column of the waybill. After the shipper or carrier signs and approves, the contract of carriage is established.
At present, domestic express delivery companies make their own express waybills, and the basic contents are basically the same, but the specific terms on the back are slightly different, mainly focusing on the standard of uninsured compensation.
In the "express waybill contract terms" on the back of the waybill of a courier company in Shenzhen, "if the sender does not choose to insure the price, the company will compensate the monthly customers for the actual value of the consignment loss within the limit of not more than nine times, and the non-monthly customers will compensate the actual value of the consignment loss within the limit of not more than seven times".
However, in the instructions for the use of EMS domestic express mail service, if the uninsured mail is lost, damaged or short, compensation shall be made according to the actual loss value, but the maximum amount shall not exceed three times the paid tariff. From this point of view, if consumers do not choose to send valuables by insured express delivery, in case of loss, the compensation they can get is only several times of the freight.
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