Sending a Parcel? CHAKKR it, instead of courier it!
Are you a CHAKKR? If not, may be you’ll be one soon; CHAKKR community is making news, as an innovative travel courier sharing service.
Did you have to wait for more than 10 days just to receive a letter, or a gift, sent to you from Asia or any other place far away? Well, Ajith had too, and all the time. He is working and living in Germany, far away from his family and friends, based in India. Every time, when he had to send them something; let it be just a letter; or a greeting card; or some small gifts; he had to plan and courier it well in advance (not to mention about the exorbitant courier fee which is often above 50 EUR for a small letter!).
The flight time between most major German airports and most major airports in India, is just between 8 and 12 hours. There is at least 1 daily flight between those airports. Ajith asked himself : “then, how can the process of transporting an A4 letter between Germany and India take so long ?.”. Well, courier companies work on a different model; and most often, their schedule is not similar to the ones of passenger airlines.
Well, as a normal social individual; he used a “social” solution for sending and receiving things between India and Germany. He seeked help from passengers who are traveling. Most of them were willing to help; and of course, to some, he paid some cash as “tip”. Thanks to all the travelers who helped; Ajith never ever had to wait for more than 1 or 2 days to send and receive things between Germany and India.
To get this “process” organized well for himself and for the whole society, plus to get the society more aware and involved; Ajith, together with his partner Claudius (who is also apparently doing the “same” for several years now as part of his online retail business); decided to launch an online community to bring together all members of the society which think the same way => “lets share our travel space; lets help each other in delivering our parcels…we are fast, cheap and reliable”. With the technology evangelist Patrick also on the boat, the online platform was quickly developed and setup with the most of the modern internet features.
That’s CHAKKR. Members of CHAKKR community are called CHAKKRs. There are thousands and thousands of active CHAKKRs, from almost all continents of the world. The community is growing at a rapid rate. They share, help, give feedbacks to each other and more-over bond together at CHAKKR. Yes, some CHAKKRs also provide the travel courier help for a small money. Local travelers help each other to transport things which they purchase on eBay or other online platforms. International travelers help each other to transport letters, gifts etc. between family, friends etc. Many view CHAKKR as a resource-sharing platform; where by already “moving” resources are used to transport small/big things from A to B. Hence, CHAKKR is often referred as the “The new GREEN courier revolution”.
No surprise that, local and international courier companies are also getting “involved” in the process; becoming themselves CHAKKRs. Since it creates competition; its a win situation for all the courier customers as well; because now they get cheap and fast courier offers directly from the courier companies as well.
As CHAKKR team mentor Prof. Dr. Eric Frere puts in his own words : “internet helped people worldwide to connect themselves. CHAKKR raises this connection to a different level of thinking; we can help ourselves; we can pay ourselves; lets manage ourselves!”.
