Courier Companies in China Deliver Live Animals in Sealed Boxes

A delivery station in China's Sichuan province was recently caught delivering 156 boxes of pets, including cats and dogs, as ordinary express. The picture shows a live pet sale page on Taobao, a platform owned by Alibaba, China's largest e-commerce company. Screenshot via The Epoch Times

The case of “live pet blind boxes” in China’s Sichuan province recently sparked public concern in the country, with even the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official media reporting on it. The matter involves not only the legal issue of delivering animals via a postal service, but also the just-implemented “Animal Epidemic Prevention Law” related to the CCP virus.

Shipping live animals bought online using regular express delivery is illegal but common in China. The practice has received little attention from the CCP’s official media in the past.