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35 rufiyaa a parcel in Malé, 60 across the bridge, 35 within Hulhumalé, 75 to Villingili and 90 to the airport. Documents needing a signature are 50, cold bag deliveries 45, and anything on the pickup 90.

An urgent single run, where a rider goes straight there with nothing else on the bike, is 90 in Malé and takes about forty minutes. Accounts over two hundred parcels a month pay from 28 a drop.

Because Malé addresses are house names rather than numbers, buildings get renamed, and a good many people do not know their own building's name. A parcel with an address alone has roughly a four in five chance of being found quickly. With a number that answers it is essentially certain.

We ring the receiver rather than searching for a building, and it is why our first attempt rate is over ninety seven per cent.

Four o'clock for Malé and two o'clock for Hulhumalé. Hulhumalé parcels go on two crossings a day, at about eleven and about half past two.

That cutoff is real. The bridge run takes twenty two minutes at ten in the morning and fifty five at half past five, so a rider leaving at four with six parcels delivers perhaps three of them. We would rather refuse the parcel than promise the evening.

Anything wet or leaking, gas cylinders, opened tins of paint, anything raw or unsealed in a cold bag, and anything going into cargo or through customs.

We also cap cash collection at 5,000 rufiyaa on one parcel. Above that the receiver transfers to you directly and we deliver against your confirmation.

We collect at the door and the money is in your account the next working day, with a statement listing every parcel, the amount collected and who accepted it. The charge is two per cent of the collected value with a minimum of 10 rufiyaa.

We do not hold money longer than a day and we never net it against your delivery invoice, because a netted statement cannot be checked.

The time, the name of whoever accepted it and a photograph at the door, sent to you the same day. For documents, a paper docket signed with a printed name and identity card number, returned to you that evening.

We started doing this after losing two arguments in our first year about parcels we had definitely delivered. It ended that whole category of problem.