Parcels, envelopes, documents and small boxes moved across Malé the same day.
35 rufiyaa a parcel up to five kilograms and up to about forty centimetres in each direction. Heavier or larger goes on the pickup run at 90 rufiyaa. Booked before four o'clock and it goes out the same day, with an average of about three hours from collection to the door.
What we need is the receiver's telephone number, the building name and the floor. Malé addresses are house names rather than numbers and we do not search for buildings, we ring the receiver, which is why our first attempt rate is over ninety seven per cent.
An urgent single run, where a rider collects and goes straight there with nothing else on the bike, is 90 rufiyaa and takes about forty minutes. That is the right choice for a passport, a set of keys or a document somebody is waiting in a meeting for, and it is the wrong choice for anything else.
Riders pause for prayer times, which is about fifteen minutes and is on the dispatch board so we can tell you where a parcel actually is.