Lunches and laundry

Mumbai is such a chaotic, over-crowded city...that somehow functions very smoothly. There are two particular examples of this that are incomprehensible to me. One is the lunches. There is an intricate network that delivers lunches to workers around the city. Thousands of women around the city prepare the lunches, and then bicycles and hand-drawn carts deliver them to the men scattered around the city. Supposedly not a single one goes missing, and they all arrive to their destination on time. We witnessed several bicycles laden with 10-20 cylindrical lunch tins weaving in and out of traffic.
And then there is the laundry. Anywhere you look in the city, the sides of buildings are so colorful with the laundry, strung out on the small balcony to dry. However, there aren't laundromats around the city, so all the laundry from around Mumbai that is not done at home, goes to one of a couple spots where thousands of men work tirelessly to clean, wash, dry the clothes by hand. We stopped by one, and walked past a thick wall of sheets waving in the breeze and our eyes fell upon men in their small concrete stalls scrugging, wringing, smacking the clothes until they were acceptably clean. Once clean and dry, a bundle is assembled, loaded onto the back of a bicycle and returned to their home. (Pictures will hopefully be coming soon!!)