The Amazon-Brittania Chunkies cookie online promo saga continues. Ive sent 52 boxes so far to a variety of addresses all over India, including for hometown adddresses of the driver, the maid and other heart of rural India addresses. While deliveries to metro cities are 2-3 day, and secondary cities a bit longer, it is when the rest of India kicks in that delivery takes longer. Hats off to Amazon for not refusing any order, they appear to have a tie-up with IndiaPost for the difficult destinations (think Lohardaga, Bijnor, Azamgarh, Samastipur, Jispa, Tuensang and Havelock Island) and 100/- worth of chocolate chip cookies, it is promised, shall get there free of freight charges. A PIN number is essential. My current order book for them cookies is like a map of India. In part 2 of this update, I asked a pavement tea-stall owner who is kind of a friendly sort whether he would want to give me his address back in his village in Eastern UP to send the cookies by online shopping, and he told me that they were already getting online shopping deliveries in his village. I asked him what he had bought lately, and he said solar cookers, so then I said how come you use gas (small cyliner) or electricity (tapped when possible to bribe), and he said, well, this is Delhi, I get committee snatching my stuff every now and then, if it is just a gas cooker and cylinder and some stock, my loss is not much but if they snatch my solar panels then I am sunk. There is a story in this. There are other anecdotal ones that rural India is snatching a lead on renewable energy options. Nope, I am not providing this post with a photo of the tea-stall owner. However, while the Bharat Swachh Abhiyaan appears to be kind of slipping, I was also keen to try and figure out where the garbage that had been cleaned up went and, bingo, in this little alcove below the Moolchand Flyover is where the jackpot lies, festering and stinking. You want to try sending chocolate-chip cookies for 100/- to the remotest corner of India? This is a trick question, also linked to the garbage.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Dec 2014 14:08:57 +0000
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