Chp 843. Safe Express to Mizoram

Here's one more post I want to publish on my blog before this year ends, mainly because till today my Mizo friends from Pune, Mumbai, Delhi etc. keep asking me how I sent all my stuff from Pune back to Mizoram.

To send my entire lifetime belongings back from Pune to Aizawl, I used this Movers & Packers service called SAFEXPRESS.

I still remember back when I was studying in Tamil Nadu, we used to send our belongings back to Mizoram using this courier service known as "ABC". Those were the steel trunk days, you know, large steel boxes with our names and addresses roughly written on top with a permanent marker. We never used to send our stuff in a suitcase because the case would be broken by the time it reached Mizoram. :D

Those days, we had to take our trunks to the ABC depot ourselves, which was a big pain (especially if you were a scrawny class 7 student with no knowledge of Tamil like I was), and then once it reached Mizoram, we had to go to the godown to collect our belongings, which was again a troublesome task.

Fortunately for us today, most of these delivery services now not only collect our luggage from our doorstep and deliver them to our destination's doorstep, but they can also pack it for us (with extra charges of course).

SAFEXPRESS is one such service. Before I continue, let me put a disclaimer that no service or product is perfect. Just as how somebody will have good experience with Amazon or Zomato delivery, there will always be someone who had a bad experience with those same companies.

Likewise, I know two friends who had a horrible experience with SAFEXPRESS. All I can say is, everything went well for me, as well as for the 20+ Mizos from Pune to whom I had recommended this service since then.

I'm not going to put the phone number of SAFEXPRESS here as numbers change in time, and years from now, if you stumble across this blog post, the particular number may not exist anymore. Safest bet is to search on Google or one of those online yellow pages and you'll get the current phone number of the nearest SAFEXPRESS outlet from your location.

So once I called up SAFEXPRESS and booked an appointment, they turned up at my apartment at the exact time discussed. There were three of them, and after they looked around, they got to work immediately.

They divided themselves up with different tasks, like one guy packed my kitchen stuff, another guy packed my bedroom stuff, while the third guy packed my electronics stuff. I didn't have to do anything at all.

Since I had to keep running outside to buy last minute stuff as I was flying home the next day, my friends Dr. John and Dessy came over and stayed at my apartment, just to let the packers know they were being observed.

I didn't take any other photos of them packing that day as I was busy, but they really did a great job. They bubble-wrapped every breakable item carefully, like my glasses and porcelains, as well as my electronic items. And after they packed everything in a box, they water-proofed each box tightly again. A very impressive work indeed.

It took them around 4 hours to pack all my belongings.

And that was it. All my belongings from the time I left Mizoram in class 3, now packed up in little boxes and to be sent back to Mizoram permanently. It was a very emotional moment for me and I cried. :P

SAFEXPRESS has a weird tariff system. It is very expensive to send just a box or two home all the way to Mizoram, but the more boxes you have, the cheaper it gets! :D Yeah the "per box rate" reduces drastically as you add more boxes.

I also opted for their larger boxes because their official SAFEXPRESS boxes (green coloured) could fit only 15 KGs and were smaller. My suitcases as well as my TV, CPU, Monitor, coffee table, side tables etc., were all counted as one box each.

I even sent home my extremely heavy and much cherished Queen-size spring mattress as the cost of sending it home when calculated with all the other boxes, came to around 4K, which was a very good deal considering I bought it during Diwali discount for 50K and it would have cost me more than 10K to send it to Mizoram by itself.

The mattress incident reminds me of this joke. :D

So after much haggling about the total cost and discount with the main guy called Hanuman, the final cost of sending home all my belongings from Pune to Aizawl came to 38K.

The invoice above said "Perfect Cargo" but they were affiliated with SAFEXPRESS. They're one of the many official partners of SAFEXPRESS across India, kinda like a franchise system, and all my details including tracking features were all available at the official SAFEXPRESS website.

Once they were gone, I too packed all my remaining stuff that I was to take home with me by flight. The above packing incident took place on 28th November 2019.

I reached Mizoram 2 days later, and on 12th December 2019, my luggage reached my house!

It took just 14 days! That was really awesome.

From doorstep collection to doorstep delivery, it sure beats the ABC courier service days. :D

Even my mattress made it home safely, yay! :D

And so that was my experience with SAFEXPRESS.

We unpacked all my boxes, and not a single thing was broken, not even my wine glass set! A truly fine work, as promised.

After that, I had recommended this service to all my friends in Pune and even gave them Hanuman's personal mobile number, and everybody who had used this service too didn't regret it. Yes the rate may still be a bit more expensive than other services, but at the end of the day, what matters the most is receiving all our things undamaged, and that's what SAFEXPRESS did. A very safe express indeed.

Ps. This is not a paid promotion, nor am I getting anything out of this blog post. Like I said in the beginning, the only reason I am writing this is because the next time someone asks me about how i sent home my stuff, I can just send them the link to this blog.

Hope this blog update was useful to you, and hoping to see you again in the near future.

Cheers.