Delivery Boy Jobs in Kolkata

You know it very well; without the last-mile delivery solution, delectable orders from your favourite restaurants, essential grocery items, and all items on e-commerce websites will never reach your door. It’s the person on a two-wheeler, with a delivery bag, zipping across the city completing orders on time — they’re delivery executives, or what we like to call, delivery boys.

Like other cities, Kolkata is no different. It’s the focal point of businesses and startups in East India. Although you can’t naturally compare it with the likes of Bengaluru and Mumbai, Kolkata holds its own for being the third-most crowded metropolitan city in India, nurturing entrepreneurial talent, and creating a wealth of fantastic career opportunities.

As a delivery boy in Kolkata, you’d think that delivery of the customer’s order is the only thing you’d have to do. That’s right to some degree, but there’s a lot that goes into being a good delivery boy in Kolkata. Some of the additional responsibilities under delivery boy jobs in Kolkata are:

• Organizing and managing to-be-delivered items.
• Retrieving the customer’s signature or confirmation on a manifest or digitally that their order has been delivered on time without any damages.
• Ensuring that delicate and fragile items are properly handled during transit.
• Guaranteeing the safety of the order or the package.
• Being responsible for the packages returned by the customers
• Possessing exemplary driving and navigation skills
• Collecting packages and orders from warehouses and locations on time.
• Figuring out the shortest and the safest routes to ensure on-time deliveries. 

The aforementioned were some of the additional responsibilities of a delivery boy job in Kolkata. While you may be alright handling most of those, you’ll have to think twice before saying yes to a Kolkata delivery boy vacancy. 

Scrutinize the benefits of delivery boy employment in Kolkata? Will it suit you? Will the delivery boy vacancy meet your own compensation demands and career growth objectives? 

Typically, most delivery boy jobs in Kolkata deliver on promises. That said, it’s important that as a candidate, you read the fine print before accepting a delivery boy job as employers have their own work and compensation policies.

Going by delivery boy job descriptions and contracts by employers in Kolkata from the past, you can expect the following: 

• Insurance cover.
• Work experience or education criteria for such jobs are minimum.
• Weekly payments, incentives, referral income and other financial perks.
• Flexible job timings without supervision. Best of all, you don’t have to take work home.
• If you have people skills you can network with new people while making deliveries.
• No cap on income — the more you work, the more you earn.

How To Find Latest Delivery Boy Jobs in Kolkata through Rocket Jobs?

Once you have shortlisted delivery boy job openings in Kolkata, click on any (one) job post and follow the steps mentioned below:

• Click “Apply” after clicking on a Kolkata delivery boy job
• Enter your first name, last name, mobile number, and email address in the pop-up form and click on “Apply”
• Then confirm your job application for a delivery boy job vacancy by entering the OTP
• Enter mandatory details for your application, verify your email and hit “Confirm”
• Then enter secondary details and click on “Confirm”. The recruiter will be alerted with your details. By doing this, we populate more delivery executive and delivery boy jobs for you
• Then track the progress of your application by clicking on the “Applications’’ tab on the top 

Delivery Boy Jobs in Kolkata - FAQs

1) Are delivery boys in Kolkata hired on a permanent basis?

Delivery boy jobs in Kolkata could be both permanent and temporary in nature. And the nature of employment is up to the employer. Typically, delivery boys are hired on a contractual basis, the tenure for which can last from a week to a year.

2) What are the minimum qualifications needed for delivery boy jobs?

Eligibility and qualification criteria for every Kolkata delivery job may differ based on the job role and the company. Usually, employers ask for minimum educational qualification, the ability to speak at least English and Hindi, a valid driver’s licence, a clean driving record, possession certificate of a two-wheeler. 

3) How much does a delivery boy in Kolkata make?

As per salary reports, delivery boys in Kolkata make INR 15,300 monthly on average. However, this is just an estimation. The salary can be much higher and will depend on various factors such as performance and ratings-based bonuses, incentives and overtime pay.

4) What is the career path for delivery boys in Kolkata?

There is often a common misconception that delivery boys do not get promoted, nor do they experience career growth. But that’s not the case. Several employers do provide growth opportunities to delivery boys if they’ve excelled in their role and have stuck around for a few years.

For instance, a delivery boy or executive could be promoted to the role of a recruiter or a trainer; the former specialising in hiring delivery executives and the latter in training and onboarding. Furthermore, a delivery executive could be given the role of a delivery manager and put in charge of all delivery executives so that deliveries are completed on time. 

5) Do companies that hire delivery boys in Chennai provide two-wheelers?

Employers rarely provide two-wheelers to delivery boys in Kolkata. This crucial detail will be clearly mentioned in the job description and the requirements section for every delivery boy job on Rocket Jobs which is why we encourage you to go through it before applying.

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