After our first week in India we concluded that we’d brought too many clothes and our bags were too heavy, so we decided to parcel some up and send them home.
In England you would wrap the parcel in brown paper, address it and take it to the post office, so off to the post office we went. But in India, parcels have to be sown up in calico by a tailor. We were sent across the road to find a tailor and got our parcel sown into a big package. Then the To and From addresses had to be written on with a special red pen provided by the PO staff. Sending a parcel to the UK wasn’t cheap- Rs2,600 (£30) for a parcel weighing 3.3kg, but at least that’s lessened our load.
Here’s the tailor sewing up our parcel
Fascinating!
