Research Of Courier Company's Civil Responsibilities For Online Shopping

Online shopping is one of the new consumer shopping patterns relying on the media to complete the goods valuing and money payment.This shopping pattern is to transfer and acquired of goods through courier companies.Courier company is a connection between shoppers and sellers.Therefore,these two groups' rights and obligations will closely affect the allocation of the benefits,and even affect the entire online purchases.Courier company is founded to serve online business as long as the traditional business.The present online shopping operation system does not clearly defined the courier companies' legal status,nor the courier contracts.There are few researches analyzing the civil responsibilities,and the courier companies' responsibilities are not defined clearly.Recently,numbers of disputes about online shopping logistics is gradually increase,the range of application of courier companies civil responsibilities in the field of online shopping is very confusing.Express delivery companies restrict the price of the maximum compensation,as a result of it consumers and network platform operators cannot get a reasonable compensation for their losses.Many consumers have nowhere to appeal to.One reason is that it's difficult to find valid evidence to prove who should be responsible to the cause of the damage to the goods,another reason is that the range of application of courier companies civil responsibilities is not clearly defined.Therefore,it is very significant to define the responsibility of unexpected damage,lost and delay of goods for the courier companies,and it will help promote the development of online market and courier industry.This paper researches and analyses the courier companies' civil responsibilities according to "Consumers' Rights and Interests Protection Law","Contract Law","Tort Liability Law" and other relevant laws.Firstly,this paper clarifies the legal status of courier companies.It will help protect consumers' related rights.When it comes to a legal dispute,the civil responsibilities of courier companies will be clear,which is defined by its legal status.Secondly,this paper deeply analyses the legal relationship in three aspects,which is the subject,the object and the details from the legal relationship of a courier company.This paper clearly claims that courier service contract is the contract for the third party's benefit,and then online shopping courier service contracts are for the benefit of third party contract,thus defines the civil responsibilities of courier companies.At last,this paper offers some advice about the issues which appears when the courier companies undertake their civil responsibilities.The author of this paper intends to provide a theoretical basis and a effective strategy to the disputes by creating a system of courier companies' civil responsibilities.