Pratik Express

Our office is on the ground floor of the Purushottam Building. It’s right there in Jalaram Nagar on V B Lane, which is very close to the Dreamland Theatre in Grant Road. Being near the theatre means there is always a huge crowd outside, especially in the evenings. We handle packages and various documents mostly. The space inside is filled with boxes of all different sizes waiting to be sent out to their destinations. It’s a bit chaotic during the evening rush when the couriers come to pick up. We spend a lot of time weighing parcels and taping up boxes that weren't closed properly by the senders. The floor is usually covered in little bits of packing tape and scraps of paper. We’ve been at this Grant Road spot for quite a while now. The building is old but it stays cool enough during the summer months. We aren't a massive logistics corporation with fancy tracking screens. It's just a few of us making sure things get to where they need to go without getting lost. Sometimes the delivery vans have a hard time parking in the narrow lane outside. We often have to run out and load things as fast as we can. It’s a lot of manual work and my back usually aches by the end of the shift. We use a simple ledger to keep track of what comes in. People stop by on their way to the station.