Oriental Packing & Moving Co

We are located at 265 B L Saha Road in New Alipur. If you’ve ever been to this part of Kolkata, you know the roads can get pretty crowded. Oriental Packing & Moving Co is basically a hub of bubble wrap and brown tape. Our office is simple and smells a bit like old paper and glue. We spend most of our mornings organizing the crews and making sure the trucks have enough blankets to wrap up the furniture. Moving people's houses is messy work and we often come back with dust on our clothes. We don't have a polished website or a marketing team. We just have a phone that rings and a ledger where we write down the addresses. Sometimes the rain in Kolkata makes things difficult and we have to wait under a tarp until it stops so the sofas don't get wet. The neighbors often come by to chat because we’ve been here a long time. It’s a lot of physical labor and shouting to be heard over the traffic. We just try to be careful with the boxes and not break anything important. There’s no secret to it, just a lot of lifting and driving through the city. By the end of the day, our backs usually ache but the work is finished and we lock the gate for the night.