Hasty breakfast and early buses
When the fog was still lingering on the cinnamon leaves in Cat Thinh commune, Mr. Nguyen Duy Hiep (born in 1997) quietly led his old motorbike out of the gate.
At 6 am, some houses are still not awake, he has already started his familiar journey to the warehouse 5km from home. His breakfast is usually just rushed to finish, as long as he is on time to receive goods. "Many days I also want to eat properly, but being late affects the whole day," he said.
At the warehouse, he and a few colleagues are busy receiving goods from trucks, sorting them and dividing them into routes. The work is repeated every day, but never is it really easy.
Attached to the J&T Express Vietnam branch in the locality for nearly a year now, Mr. Hiep and his colleagues are in charge of a large area of 8 communes.
His route extends from Cat Thinh commune to Chan Thinh - where the roads are winding along the mountainside. Every day, he travels about 150 - 170km to deliver more than 100 large and small orders. For each successful order, he receives 5,000 VND, totaling about 500,000 VND/day.
Income from perseverance
It sounds okay, but to do that, you have to run continuously, almost no rest time," he shared.
Previously, he worked as a worker in industrial parks in Hung Yen, Thai Nguyen. The job was stable but constrained, making him feel unsuitable. Switching to being a shipper, he found more proactiveness.
The thing that puts the most pressure on him is the target. Each month he has to complete about 2,600 orders, otherwise it will directly affect his income.
During the working process, sometimes encountering funny situations such as customers going to work in the fields without phone signal, or asking to send goods and then "forgetting" to transfer money is also common.
But with the honest heart of a mountain person, Mr. Hiep still chooses to trust customers: "Many times they are too busy to forget, let's just deliver goods on time first.
But if they forget or deliberately do not transfer money, it's like I'm lost, there are very stressful evenings when I have to sit for hours calling to ask for money for goods from customers," Mr. Hiep said.
Another colleague of Mr. Hiep named Ha Phuong Duy (born 1997) shared that on rainy and windy days, when encountering bulky orders, work will be somewhat more difficult.
When it rains, I'm only worried that the goods will get wet, so I have to take shelter, and I'm used to getting wet, sometimes I have to go through landslides, temporarily cut off roads, I also have to steer firmly," Mr. Duy said simply.
Ms. Nguyen Thi Hoa, a resident in Lao Cai, excitedly said: "Now it's very convenient, you don't need to go far, just place it on your phone and the shippers will deliver it right at the gate. Sometimes the item bought online is even cheaper than in the market, and you don't have to travel dozens of kilometers of mountain passes.
In the flow of e-commerce, people like Mr. Hiep are silent "blood vessels".
They not only deliver a package of goods, but also deliver comfort, connecting remote villages with the development of the city.
When the sunset fell behind the mountains, Mr. Hiep and his brothers began to start the engine to return home, ending a long day with a journey of nearly 200km.
