Frankfurt-based Indian manager compares Germany’s slow delivery system with India’s ‘teleportation’

An Indian man living in Frankfurt has compared Germany’s slow-paced delivery system with India’s fast services and shared that Germans “stare at me in disbelief, like I’m describing teleportation”.

Sahil Choudhary, a project manager at a German Fintech firm wrote on  LinkedIn, Germany: “Your protein will arrive in 5 business days.” India: “Your iPhone will arrive in 10 minutes.”

He wrote, “Here in Germany, forget instant delivery, your parcel arrives only during specific business hours. No deliveries on weekends, and painful return procedures.”

“Back home, logistics runs on caffeine. Thousands of riders weaving through traffic, dark stores every 500 metres, and ETAs that defy physics,” he added.

He shared that the speed has stimulated the economy in a way even policy couldn’t as it boosted consumption, created liquidity, and employed millions across India.

“When I tell Germans about this, they stare at me in disbelief, like I’m describing teleportation. It makes India sound more first world than the first world itself,” he added.

Noting the cons of the system he wrote, “But the cost of this speed is paid by the ones racing to deliver it – low wages, long hours, rising pollution. It chokes roads with traffic and still bleeds bottom lines.”

“But still, we’ve innovated an extraordinary capability that we can potentially scale to redefine global logistics,” wrote Chaudhary.

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The post garnered mixed reactions from the users. Appreciating the thought a user wrote, “But this also reflects the deep disparity in how human capital is valued across economies. What Europe treats as a scarce and protected resource, India still treats as an abundant and replaceable one. The same demographic dividend that powers our instant delivery ecosystem could have been our greatest innovation dividend — if only we invested in upskilling, fair wages, and human dignity.”

“Speed is impressive, but sustainability comes when that speed doesn’t come at the cost of the people who enable it. It’s time we see our delivery riders not as the “couriers of convenience”, but as the backbone of a modern economy that must learn to respect and uplift its workforce,” he added.