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Meet delivery 'boy' Sreekumari S
She's one of the first women to ride into the male-dominated world of e-commerce delivery agents.
T E Narasimhan meets Sreekumari S.
Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com
Sreekumari S, a 42-year-old mother of two, reaches her office at Thiruvananthapuram at 8 every morning. After sorting the packets that are waiting for her, she loads the lot into a large backpack, which she then hoists on her shoulders and heads to her Honda Activa scooter, determined to hit the road.
The red bindi on her forehead and the vermilion in the parting of her hair peek out of the helmet firmly placed on her head.
Sreekumari is ready for the day.
A resident of Chempazhanthy, a suburb of Thiruvananthapuram, Sreekumari is one of the first women to ride into the male-dominated world of e-commerce delivery agents -- or 'delivery associates' as they are called at Amazon.
Until recently, she contributed to her family income by working as a tailor from home. In January, her sister who works at the residence of Divya Syam, Amazon's service partner in the region, told her that the e-commerce company was looking to employ, for the first time in India, women as delivery agents.
Read more at: http://www.rediff.com/getahead/report/meet-delivery-boy-sreekumari-s/20160325.htmMeet delivery 'boy' Sreekumari S
She's one of the first women to ride into the male-dominated world of e-commerce delivery agents.
T E Narasimhan meets Sreekumari S.
Illustration: Uttam Ghosh/Rediff.com
Sreekumari S, a 42-year-old mother of two, reaches her office at Thiruvananthapuram at 8 every morning. After sorting the packets that are waiting for her, she loads the lot into a large backpack, which she then hoists on her shoulders and heads to her Honda Activa scooter, determined to hit the road.
The red bindi on her forehead and the vermilion in the parting of her hair peek out of the helmet firmly placed on her head.
Sreekumari is ready for the day.
A resident of Chempazhanthy, a suburb of Thiruvananthapuram, Sreekumari is one of the first women to ride into the male-dominated world of e-commerce delivery agents -- or 'delivery associates' as they are called at Amazon.
Until recently, she contributed to her family income by working as a tailor from home. In January, her sister who works at the residence of Divya Syam, Amazon's service partner in the region, told her that the e-commerce company was looking to employ, for the first time in India, women as delivery agents.
Read more at: http://www.rediff.com/getahead/report/meet-delivery-boy-sreekumari-s/20160325.htmMeet delivery 'boy' Sreekumari S
