How courier companies sell in India
Volume comes from accounts, and accounts are won and lost on WhatsApp
The profitable part of an Indian courier business is not the counter. It is the corporate client sending documents and samples daily, the e-commerce seller shipping a few hundred parcels a week, and the trader who moves stock to distributors every month. Those accounts are won by a representative visiting, by a trial pickup that goes well, and by a rate that holds. They are lost just as quietly when service slips and nobody calls.
Almost all of the ongoing relationship runs through WhatsApp. Pickup requests, stuck consignment queries, remittance questions and next month rates all arrive as messages, usually to a personal number. That is convenient until the executive leaves, at which point the client relationship leaves with them.