Doing Laundry has been an integral part of household chores since the days civilisation clothed themselves with animal skins. And since then, doing laundry has evolved from washing the clothes in the river and beating the dirt out using pure hands or wooden bats to the washing machine and now dry cleaning. Time has also saw the change from animal skin covers to many clothes to suit the very occasion and situation we are in from the normal working shirt and pants to the smart and charming tuxedo to that much need winter jacket to make a fashion statement on the top of a snow capped mountain.
It is the same for the service of laundry pick up and delivery. There were records of laundry pick up and delivery via horse-drawn wagons in the early years before the industrial revolution. During the industrial revolution, laundry pick up and delivery was done on the electric trucks and evolved to the current gasoline-driven vehicles as the main mode of transport.
Increasingly the demands on time has also increased on us even though it is still 24 hours again. Family, work, friends and self time including rest form the big bulk of the time usage. Hence, household chores like laundry are increasingly becoming quite painful to the individual to use time for.
In recent years, doing laundry at laundromats near the place of residence and laundry pick up and delivery have gained much popularity due to the following reasons:
With so many reasons to use the laundry pick up and delivery, it is no wonder it has gained popularity over the recent times in Singapore.