信函寄到废品站
Letters sent to scrap yard
要在当今中国这特殊的土地上打官司，按周兴和的说法，每打一个官司，其艰难辛苦的程度，绝不亚于登一回珠穆朗玛峰。
To fight a lawsuit in the special land of today's China, according to Zhou Xinghe, each lawsuit is no less arduous than climbing Mount Qomolangma.
在公司的生产经营基本恢复后，周兴和面对肆无忌惮侵害他公司利益的行为，实在是义愤填膺、忍无可忍。他何尝不知道，打官司所耗费的人力、物力、财力和精力，所受的窝囊气，都不能是简单用金钱来计算的。退一万步讲，就算你打赢了官司，杀人三千，可也要自损八百呀！何况，周兴和觉得他的主要时间和精力，应该放在产品的发明和推广上，放在为社会创造物质和精神财富上来——但，没有办法，他们别无选择。
After the company's production and operation basically resumed, Zhou Xinghe faced the behavior that infringed his company's interests unbridled, and he was really angry and could not bear it any more. He was well aware that the human, material, financial, and mental costs for the lawsuit as well as the petty annoyances could not be simply calculated in terms of money. At the very least, even if winning the lawsuit, it would be at a high price! Moreover, Zhou Xinghe felt that he should spend most of his time and energy on inventing and promoting the products and creating the material and spiritual wealth for the society - but they had no choice.
2002年5月，星河公司办公室主任突然接到一个匿名电话，电话里说：他们交给邮政局的发送的商业信函，几乎都没盖邮政局的邮戳，一车一车全部当成废品卖掉了！
In May of 2002, the office director of Xinghe Company suddenly received an anonymous telephone call saying that almost all the business letters they sent to the post office were not marked with the post office postmark and had been sold as the waste paper.
“这，怎么可能呢？”周兴和听完许主任的汇报，根本不相信这件事情，“这恐怕是邮政局内部的职工对他们领导有意见，故意在外面坏他们领导的名声吧。”
"How is that possible?" Zhou Xinghe listened to Director Xu's report, and did not believe it, "I'm afraid it may be the post office internal staff who have opinions on their leader, and deliberately discredit their leader in the outside."
“我看不是，那个人打电话的口气非常肯定，说以他的人格和职业道德作保证。”
"No, I don't think so. The man called in a very positive tone, pledging by his integrity and work ethics."
“我看……”许主任迟疑了一下，“是不是叫人查问一下？”
"Well..." Director Xu hesitated for a moment, "Shall I ask someone to check it?"
“根本没有那个必要。”周兴和对此很自信，“私拆私毁信件是犯法的行为，人家是国家办的邮政局，他们根本没有必要那样做，我们也没有必要费那个精神。”
"There is no need for that." Zhou xinghe said confidently, "It is against the law to open and destroy other’s letters privately. They are the post offices run by the state. They don't have to do that thing, and we don't have to check."
“那……好吧。”许主任只好点头应道。
"That’s...... all right." Director Xu had to nod his head in response.
可，几个月后，种种迹象表明，那个匿名电话恐怕还不是空穴来风。这时，周兴和对办公室主任反映的那件事，也有点怀疑起来。那一天，他叫来了许主任。
A few months later, however, it became clear that the anonymous call might not be false. At this time, Zhou Xinghe was also a little suspicious to the matter reflected by the office director. That day, he called Director Xu to his office.
“你们统计过没有，今年我们通过邮政局发出商业信函一共是多少件？”周兴和问。
"Have you calculated how many business letters we sent through the post office this year?" Zhou Xinghe asked.
“这个我们有详细记载，从2002年4月8日起，至今已通过邮政局发出2,096,110件，已经印刷好的还有40万件没发走。”办公室主任回答。
"We have a detailed record. Since April 8, 2002, 2,096,110 pieces have been sent through the post office, and 400,000 printed pieces have not to be sent out yet." Replied the office director.
“这就奇怪了。”周兴和沉思了一阵，缓缓说道，“这批商业信函，大部分是彩印的画册和报纸，光印刷费我们就花了1000多万元。100多个装信人员的工资、信封印刷费、邮费已支出400多万元。既然已经交出了200多万件，为什么今年这么反常，客户几乎没有什么信息反馈，近一段时间以来，也几乎没有客户上门了呢？”
"That's strange." Zhou Xinghe thought for a while and said slowly, "Most of these business letters are the picture albums and newspapers printed in color. We spent more than 10 million yuan just for printing. More than 4 million yuan has been spent on the wages of more than 100 letter stuffing personnel, envelope printing and postage. Since more than 2 million letters have been delivered, why is it so unusual this year that there has been so little feedback from the clients and, in recent days, almost no client comes to visit us?"
是啊，眼前反常的怪状，不得不令周兴和感到有些怀疑了。根据往年的经验，这些信函发出之后，每天至少要接到全国打来的五六十个咨询电话，每天要接待来公司参观考察、洽谈业务的客户十几批，可今年的发信量比往年增加了1倍，怎么会一反常态门可罗雀呢？
Well, the present abnormal situation made Zhou Xinghe feeling a little suspicious. According to the experience in previous years, after these letters were sent out, it should receive at least 50 or 60 consulting calls from all over the country every day, and receive more than 10 batches of clients who come to visit and investigate the company and negotiate for the business every day. But this year's letter quantity was doubled comparing with previous year, why it was out of normal conditions now?
“我还是怀疑，邮政局是不是真的把我们这些邮件当成废品卖了，他们根本就没有给我们邮寄出去！”许主任又旧事重提。
"I still wonder whether the post office really sold our letter as the waste paper, or they never sent it at all!" Director Xu talked the old story again.
“照常理，这种事情根本不会发生哪！但现在的情形，让人不得不心生疑问呀。”
"As usual, this will not happen! But now the situation is questionable."
往年，公司的信函都是通过成都市邮政局发送，他们的服务质量是让人无可挑剔的。由于近年来邮政和电信分家，邮政业务竞争日趋激烈。星河公司因每年的商函发送量大，一年要发送邮件200余万件，自然成为各家邮政局争夺的对象。今年3月，某市邮政局通过朋友，找到星河公司，愿意以低于成都市邮政的价格，帮他们发送邮件。周兴和碍于朋友面子，所以才舍近求远将业务从成都转到了这个邮政局。刚开始，他们也派公司人员到邮政局了解过，据汇报，他们的工作应该还是认真的呀！
堆积如山被当做废品卖的商业函
In previous years, the company's letters were sent through Chengdu Post Office, and their service quality was impeccable. Due to the separation of postal services and telecommunications in recent years, the competition in postal services had become increasingly fierce. Because the annual volume of business letters of Xinghe Company was huge, which was more than 2 million pieces a year, it naturally became the object of each post office. In March of this year, a city post office found Xinghe Company through a friend, willing to send the letters in a lower price than Chengdu Post Office. For the sake of his friend's face, Zhou Xinghe transferred his letter business from Chengdu to this post office. At the beginning, they also send the company staff to understand the condition in the post office, and according to report, their work was still done well!
周兴和想了想，对许主任讲道：“这样吧，你分别打电话询问一些熟悉的客户，至少要问上一二百家，问他们收到我们的信函没有？如果他们大部分都没收到，你们确实要派几个人追踪一下这些邮件的去向。”
Zhou Xinghe thought about it for a while and said to Director Xu, "Well, you should call up at least one or two hundred familiar clients and ask them if they have received our letters. If most of them didn't get the letter, you do have to send someone to track it down."
“好吧。”许主任答应道。
"Yes, sir." Director Xu promised.
“你回来！”周兴和又叫回了主任，嘱咐道，“你去和周副总他们商量一下，对于客户反馈的信息，你们追踪邮件的去处，都要留下确凿的证据来。”
"Come back!" Zhou Xinghe called the director back and told him, "You should discuss with Deputy General Manager Zhou. For the client feedback information and the whereabouts of the tracked letters, you should keep the conclusive evidence."
“这我知道。”
"I know that."
随后发生的一切，果然不是空穴来风。星河公司连续打了几天电话，询问了一二百家客户，几乎家家都没收到他们的信函。
What followed proved it was not just a rumor. Xinghe Company called for several days and asked about over a hundred clients, but almost no one received the business letter from them.
“这就怪了，说不定问题就发生在邮政局的邮路上。”周兴和闻言更生疑惑，他想了想，对公司副总经理吩咐道。“这样，你派我们的职工，24小时在邮政局周围不间断地巡查，看看这些邮件到底送到了什么地方？”
"That's strange. The problem might have happened in the post office." Zhou Xinghe heard and became more confused. He thought for a while, and said to the company deputy general manager, "So, you're sending our staff around the post office 24 hours a day to see where the letters go."
世界上的事情怕就怕认真。周兴和他们认真一查，果然在某邮政局内，查出一起轰动全国罕见的毁损邮件的丑闻来！
Where there is a will, there is a way. Zhou Xinghe and his staff checked carefully, and finally found a national rare scandal of damaging mails in a post office!
2002年10月3日晚，无月无星。
On the night of October 3, 2002, there was no moon or star.
这几天，正是国庆放假期间，按照周兴和安排，星河公司轮番守在邮政局的职工张某和冯某，这天晚上8点多钟，他们突然发现有5辆三轮车，装着若干个胀鼓鼓的麻袋，摇摇晃晃从邮政局大门出来。三轮车后边，紧跟着说说笑笑的两男两女。张某认得，蹬三轮车的几个人，是长期在邮政局附近转悠的收荒匠；那几个男女，则就比较面生了。两个忠于职守的职工照例不露声色上前查看，这不看不要紧，一看叫他们大吃了一惊！原来，在没有完全封装好的麻袋口，他们发现了一扎扎熟悉的信封和宣传资料——他们揉揉自己的眼睛，没有错，这就是公司运到这里的信函和宣传资料！
These days, it was the National Day Holiday; according to Zhou Xinghe’s arrangement, Xinghe Company’s staff Zhang and Feng took turns to watch at the post office. Over 8 o'clock of this evening, they suddenly found five tricycles, containing a number of bulging sacks, staggered out from the post office gate. Behind the tricycle, followed by two men and two women talking and laughing. Zhang recognized, those people rided the tricycles were the junkman always around the post office; those men and women, on the other hand, were unfamiliar. The two faithful staffs, as usual, came forward to check it secretly. It shocked them this time! From the opening of the sack, which had not been completely sealed, they saw a bundle of familiar letters and publicity materials - they rubbed their eyes, and that was the letters and publicity materials Xinghe Company had given to the post office for mail!
这些三轮车，要把已经损毁的邮件拉到什么地方去呢？两位职工没有打草惊蛇。他们悄悄尾随着三轮车，眼看他们从大街转向小巷，转弯抹角一路前行。约莫半个小时后，他们来到一个十分僻静的地方。在几间破烂的房子前，早就有人在那里等着他们。
Where are these tricycles going to haul the damaged letters? The two staff did not alert other people. They quietly followed the tricycles, watching them turning from the street to the alley, and zigzagging along. After about half an hour, they came to a very quiet place. There were people waiting for them in front of a few shabby houses.
几句简单的对话后，那几个男女就指挥三轮车夫卸下了车上的麻袋。十几个麻袋打开，张冯二人躲在在暗处，看见里面装的全是捆成一叠叠的信封和资料！紧接着，两个男人亲自过称，老板娘付给其中一男750多块钱后，几个男女轻松愉快地离开了废品站。
After a few brief conversations, the men and women instructed the junkmen to unload the sacks. More than a dozen sacks were open, and Zhang and Feng hiding in the dark, saw the inside was binded stacks of letters and publicity materials! Then, the two men weighed the papers by themselves and left the scrap yard after the boss paid over 750 yuan.
“周总吗？”张某将眼见的情况用手机如实向周兴和作了汇报，“邮政局把我们公司的商业信函，用三轮车拖到废品站卖了！”
"Mr. Zhou?" Zhang truthfully reported what they saw with a mobile phone to Zhou Xinghe, "The post office took our company's business letters, to the scrap yard to sell with tricycles!"
“你们真的看清楚了吗？”此时，周兴和正和家人在外度假，他听见职工的报告，简直不敢相信自己的耳朵，他不放心地又追问道。
"Did you really see that?" At this point, Zhou Xinghe and his family were on holiday, and when he heard the report of his staff, he could not believe and aske again.
“没有错，他们是用5辆三轮车运的，还跟着4个男女。”张某肯定地说道，“这个废品站，是废品收购站第12门市部。”
"Yes, they were transported by five tricycles, accompanied by 2 men and 2 women." Zhang said firmly, "This scrap yard is the 12th salesroom of the salvage station."
“他妈的，简直无法无天！”从来不说粗话的周兴和在心里恨恨骂了一声，但他立即冷静下来，对吩咐两位职工道，“你们先不要惊动他们，一个人盯住废品站，一个人还是盯住邮政局，我们马上赶到现场来处理！”
"Damn it, there's no law?!" Zhou Xinghe, who never said rude words, cursed in his heart, but he calmed down immediately and told the two staff, "Don't alert them now. One of you keeps an eye on the scrap yard and the other on the post office. We will come to deal with it now!"
