Address on the delivery package says Mandir pe aake phone lagana, people say it is desi geo-tagging:
India is a land of millions of thousands of lanes, which twist and turn into gallis. And it is not surprising to get lost in them even when we have navigation on in mobile phones. And this is the main reason we include nearby landmarks when ordering things online so that delivery agents find their way to our houses easily.
Well, in such an incident, a Twitter user recently found a delivery label that included a unique instruction, “Mandir ke samne aate hi phone laaga lena mein aa jaunga.”
Indian eCommerce is different. pic.twitter.com/EewQnPcU5p
— Mangesh Panditrao (@mpanditr) July 7, 2020
After this people also shared some similar desi addresses. Check them out below:
One more pic.twitter.com/EBBUP88wtU
— Rohan Gupta (@irohan_gupta) July 8, 2020
The Konkani version.
(I found this on twitter a while ago. No longer have link to original poster) pic.twitter.com/fr1GvTYIJO— Sachin Prabhu (@spuiuk) July 8, 2020
Flipkart also took to Twitter to give their take on it, and it was hilarious. They posted the picture of the package with the caption, “Taking ‘Ghar Ek mandir hai’ to a whole new level! (sic).”
Taking ‘Ghar ek mandir hai’ to a whole new level! pic.twitter.com/uuDoIYLyId
— Flipkart (@Flipkart) July 9, 2020
Check out people’s reaction to it:
Offfffoooooo😂😂😂😂 !!
— Shivani (@shivani_sayss) July 9, 2020
Genius!
— Momin T. Hasan (@mominthasan) July 9, 2020
Delivery hack
— Fuzail Ahmed (@Fuzail1819) July 9, 2020
Genius!
— Momin T. Hasan (@mominthasan) July 9, 2020
Anokha Rajasthan
— Left Ya Right (@Modi_warrior) July 9, 2020
Khatarnak log hai.
— Abhay Kumar Keshri (@abhayagbirds) July 9, 2020
Khatarnak log hai.
— Abhay Kumar Keshri (@abhayagbirds) July 9, 2020
This is fun 😁
— Mehul (@HarryWaalaPoter) July 9, 2020
Well, some people on the internet appreciated the practical aspects of the address and also wondered how drones would be useful in this situation in the future.
@JeffBezos be wondering how would drones in the future deliver such demands 😂
— Shikhar Anand (@am_shikhar) July 7, 2020
Life mei itna hi sorted hona hai bus 😉
— Girish Chourshiya (@girishgish) July 8, 2020
Indian jugaad see for yourself #India #style #positivity 😊😂😂 https://t.co/CsCfbkMPcs
— Chandan M Odrani (@cmodrani) July 9, 2020
Thank God, Atleast there is a pin code 😂😂😂
— Abhishek Hebbar 🚩🇮🇳 (@abhishek_r_h) July 8, 2020
State of the art, geo location based address system 😉 https://t.co/yfG2GIABzz
— Amit Paranjape (@aparanjape) July 8, 2020
