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Send it across town today

Documents, keys, a part for the workshop. Book a courier, and the person receiving it reads out a code before it changes hands.

What you can send

What is going decides the vehicle, and the vehicle decides the price.

Documents and keys

A signed contract, a passport, the keys somebody left behind. Goes on two wheels and moves fastest.

A parcel

Something boxed and carryable — a pair of shoes, a phone, a cake for the afternoon.

Something bulky

A part for the workshop, a case of drinks, an order that will not go on a motorbike. A car or van is sent instead.

Traders and porters moving goods through Merkato in Addis Ababa

What the code does

Every delivery carries a short code, and the code goes to whoever is receiving. They read it to the courier on arrival, and only then is the delivery complete.

Which means there is no “left at the gate” and no argument a week later about whether it arrived. The code is not stored anywhere; it is computed.

What you get

A code at the door

The recipient proves it is them. A courier typing a name into a box is not proof, and DERSA does not treat it as one.

Express or same day

Pay for speed when you need it, and less when you can wait.

The right vehicle

A heavy or fragile parcel is not sent on a motorbike because it happened to be closest.

How it works

  1. Book it

    Pickup, drop-off, and how fast you need it.

  2. A courier collects

    You see who is carrying it and where they are.

  3. The code is read out

    Only then does it change hands.

What DERSA will not carry

Prescription-only medicine, and anything the law does not allow. Better said here than discovered when a courier declines at your door.