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VISAKHAPATNAM: Consumers from towns need delivery & courier services more than ever in the pandemic times, as the logistics play a key role in delivering the emergency medical supplies to healthcare workers and essential goods to consumers. During the quarantine, small town consumers turned to e- commerce sites to hoard their essentials and priority non-essentials. Delivery service franchises buckled up and provided round-the-clock services to reciprocate with the sudden demand. And it is still on. According to the Consignor data, there is a huge shift of 80 percent of locals from offline stores to e-commerce sites with the impact of pandemic; this highlights that e-commerce delivery services have seen an increased demand in tier 3 towns in the Covid-19 situation. Essential supplies alone show consumer growth of more than 35 percent. Before the pandemic, parcels were mostly electronics. Now, most of the parcels we deliver are necessities including healthcare