Just reached your office in Gurgaon only to realise you forgot an important document back home in Delhi? Don’t feel like travelling back to fetch it? Don’t fret.
Superman Delivers, an errand and delivery service, will step in to pick up and deliver your document to you.
The venture is the brainchild of Jattin Agarwal, a final-year engineering student, who started the company in May.
Jattin says: “I was never a bright student and sitting on the last bench in class I would daydream about starting my own e-commerce venture. I was looking for problems people face and delivered a solution.”
Once the idea came to Jattin, he had to implement the idea immediately or someone else would get into the space. So he spent his summer holidays with his sister, marketing the concept to small business and individuals in Karol Bagh, Rajinder Nagar and Connaught Place.
In a month, they designed the website, printed and distributed flyers, trained delivery boys, telephone operators and invested approximately Rs.1 lakh to set up the business.
People have used the service to get homework delivered across town, passports delivered to the airport, gotten the delivery boy to buy a pair of flip-flops that were available only at a particular shop in a particular part of the city and even got ‘chaat’ from Old Delhi delivered to an address in South Delhi.
A shot in the arm to market the service was a tie-up it had with Clothes Box Foundation, an NGO that collects old clothes for the poor. Superman Delivers picked up clothes from various people and delivered it to the NGO. In the process, it was able to market its service and got calls to run errands after that.
In order not to get into a situation like the cycle messenger in the movie Premium Rush got into by delivering a package wanted by the mafia, all packages are checked to ensure they are not carrying anything illegal.
The minimum charge for package delivery is Rs.99 and it can go up to Rs.999 depending on how far the destination is. Packages that require special care cost extra. The delivery boys try their best to use public transport to make the deliveries in order to keep the service eco-friendly.
Jattin hopes to find investors to raise capital to expand his service and receive orders from companies to use his service to send documents across the city instead of hiring delivery boys.
