Indian Lunch Box Delivery System

A lunch delivery man or dabbawala holds up a tiffin or lunch box.

Indian lunch box delivery system.

A mistaken delivery in mumbai s famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Every day more 250 000 lunch box deliveries are made around the indian city of mumbai and hardly any delivery goes wrong. Ny times the code explained. Dabba means a box usually a cylindrical tin or aluminium container from persian.

These dabbawalas move 400 000 lunch boxes every day using trains and bicycles. Lunch boxes are marked in several ways. Just as the indian railways are insatiably busy and incredibly complex so is the dabba s delivery system ferrying out an estimated 80 million lunches a year. This cbs news story says two main reasons for the success of the dabbawalas.

This is all part of a century old tradition known as the dabbawallah. The 5 000 strong force of dabbawalas deliver home cooked food to about 200 000 customers throughout mumbai. Code the mostly illiterate crew of deliverymen relies on a color coding system to route lunches to the proper recipients. The dabbawallahs even deliver in the pouring rain or during political strife.

Gautam singh ap. Directed by ritesh batra. And no better example of this. Tiffins in the wild.

With irrfan khan nimrat kaur nawazuddin siddiqui lillete dubey. The closest meaning of the dabbawala in english would be the tiffin box delivery man.