Analysis On Liability For Damage And Loss Of Goods In Express Service

As an emerging industry, courier services caused a mass of compensation dispute due to the uneven distribution of its service quality. There are still many issues that need to be solved urgently because of the undefined legal norms. The academic debate of parcel damage compensation has never stopped, and the juridical reasons as well as the judgment results are distinct from one another in local courts. Different understanding about the liability for damages, various compensation range of legal protection, and the limited value-insured items in the contract abused by express companies, all of the problems may cause the consumers’loss can’t be covered. In order to solve these issues, this essay is mainly from the nature of parcel damage compensation, the properties and effectiveness of value-insured and value-uninsured items in the contract, and the damages compensate standards three aspects to analyze, and draws the conclusion that the liability for damages should be determined by consumers’ specific claims. In the current contract of courier services, both the value-insured ceilings and the highest standards of compensating damages violate the rule of fairness. To make courier services industry own a healthy-developing in socialist market economy, the express companies should undertake disclosure obligation, improve value-uninsured mechanism and develop insurance system.