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From rssfeeds@jmason.org Thu Sep 26 16:31:16 2002
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From: boingboing <rssfeeds@example.com>
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Subject: Dabba Wallahs: India's meal-delivery FedEx
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Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 15:11:43 -0000
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URL: http://boingboing.net/#85494359
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Date: Not supplied
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Amazing story about the "dabba wallahs" -- India's 112-year-old meal-delivery
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system that outdoes FedEx using pictograms, bicycles, and largely illiterate
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(but well-compensated) deliverypeople:
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As part of the tiffin distribution process, every day the meals are picked
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up from commuters' homes in Mumbai long after the commuters have left for
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work, delivered to them on time, then picked up and delivered home before
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the commuters return.
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Each tiffin carrier has, painted on its top, a number of symbols that
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identify where the carrier was picked up, the originating and destination
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stations and the address to which it is to be delivered.
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After the tiffin carriers are picked up, they are taken to the nearest
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railway station, where they are sorted according to the destination
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station.
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At the destination station they are unloaded by other dabba wallahs and
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re-sorted, this time according to street address and floor.
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The 80 kg crates of carriers, carried on dabba wallahs' heads, hand-wagons
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and cycles are delivered at 12.30 p.m., picked up at 1.30 p.m., and
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returned when they came.
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The system relies on multiple relays of dabba wallahs, and a single tiffin
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box may change hands up to three times during its journey from home to
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office.
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Link[1] Discuss[2] (_Thanks, Tom!_)
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[1] http://in.news.yahoo.com/020920/43/1vfdw.html
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[2] http://www.quicktopic.com/boing/H/H96NaZc8PTyq
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