China Post has found an unexpected revenue stream in inept Chinese students mailing their dirty laundry back home for their parents to wash, Shanghai Daily reports.
The method is often cheaper than using local laundry services, meaning express delivery services on college campuses are heavily used by students, Liu Liangyi, a department deputy at the State Post Bureau, said in an online interview during the Natonal People's Congress on Monday.
"The cost of mailing clothes is cheap for students while the efficiency is high," said Zhang, adding that the government hopes to fine-tune the business to customers' varying needs.
However, not everyone has been won over by the system. "Both school and parents should focus on fostering students' life skills," Lao Kaisheng, an education professor at Capital Normal University, told the Global Times. "Otherwise how can they become independent individuals in the future?"
In September 2012, a freshman from a university in Wuhan, Hubei province became internet famous after sending a pile of dirty laundry to his parents in nearby Xiangyang, CNHubei.com reported. They refused to wash it.
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