Hallo dear C,
Thank you for making the payment of the shipping cost, well received! Unfortunately, it arrived a bit later in the day when I was already inside LaGuardia Airport (and inside TSA's grip) waiting for a flight to Texas for other couriering duties, and there was no post office in the airport! So your dispatch travelled with me to Dallas, and although the price was higher from the longer distance, I didn't want to delay your reading any further and proceeded to post it this afternoon; there is a tracking number in the photo receipt. While we won't demand the extra cost after the fact, if you have any possibility to support our work for semi-autonomous publishing, would be very helpful if you can make an extra donation at your convenience. Thank you again, and warmest wishes from Dallas, Texas.
PORTABLE
2026-03-25，13:56 UTC-05：
收件人已支付了11.92美元，透過普通 ☹︎ 郵政服務寄送HQL-795包裹；然而與此同時，慢遞員易拎已從紐約抵達達拉斯，並隨身攜帶該換件； 在達拉斯，她發現儘管運費現在已高於書本身價格，甚至超過收件人支付的紐約至劍橋運費，但仍決定照常寄出；當她試圖拍攝貼有郵票的包裹時，郵局職員立即將包裹奪走，並禁止拍照：「不行，女士。一旦進入我們手中，在交收之前，這就視為我們的包裹。」
RECEIVER pays US$11.92 for regular ☹︎ postal service for dispatch HQL-795, but in the mean time, COURIER PORTABLE has already travelled from New York to Dallas, relaying the dispatch with her; in Dallas, she discovers that even though the shipping cost is now greater than the cost of the book as well as more than the amount RECEIVER has paid for New York to Cambridge, but decides to send through anyway; while trying to take a photo of the postage stamped package, the postal worker immediately snatches it away, forbidding photography: "No ma'am. Once it's in our possession it's considered our package until it's not."
2026-03-22，15:19 UTC-04：
收件人留言：「我想知本書幾時會到，要用嚟做同行評審。考慮到同行評審，我好想知道郵費同額外費用會係幾多。可唔可以都用WhatsApp通知我？我電話：617XXXXXXX」
RECEIVER MESSAGE："I was wondering when the book will arrive, I need it for a peer review. Considering the peer review I would love to know how much the postal fees and extras would be. Could you please let me know, also via WhatsApp? My number: 617XXXXXXX"
2026-03-09，下午 afternoon UTC-04：
緩件號HQL-795等待轉運；自抵達以來，慢遞員易拎便飽受時差困擾，生活節奏始終無法同步；然而扭曲的視角或許能孕育嶄新思緒——她以近期旅程為藍本，創作了一則微型故事：
Dispatch HQL-795 awaiting relay; COURIER PORTABLE has been jetlagged and out of sync since she arrives, but perhaps a warped perspective can support some new thoughts; she writes a mini story based upon her recent journeys：
Bottle Fly had been cruising around for awhile, and the world, despite however bleak, seemed promising. The shit of the earth was his every meal, and he looked for what stank and rotted and fell fallow. He would cherish the waste that other creatures ignored, and that was his way of cleaning up after a dirty world. It had its own taste and he felt that he had his place in the ecosystem, sometimes infecting a human or two with erratic dysentery to slow them down a bit. But even after every operation, the world looked mostly the same and Bottle Fly's buzz began to wear off. The regal emerald sheen on his abdomen slowly lost its reflective abilities, and the world upon which he had once tasted brown fruit began to swallow him. They swallowed each other. All of the terrors of human power only repeated themselves from country to country—in prison cells and presidential suites and in the crack of a road that's about to cave in. Actually, Bottle Fly doesn't know enough to distinguish between all of these disasters. He knows nothing of borders or inequality, wealth or poverty. He eats shit. And while that was his sustenance, the shit of the world began to wear on him, and he grew tired.
He lands to rest for a while on Elephant Ear Leaf. Elephant Ear Leaf feels his weight and jounces ever so slightly, just so that Bottle Fly doesn't notice that Elephant Ear is catching him. They rest for a while together in silence. And just as the sun also begins to take its daily nap, Elephant Ear asks Bottle Fly quietly, "Did you want to change the world?" Bottle Fly rubs his left and right front tarsi together slowly, then more quickly, thinking about the shit he will eat for dinner. "Oh, you didn't?"
2026-03-02，20:12 UTC-05：
慢遞員易拎順利降落紐約，接上甘迺迪國際機場的無線網路下載數款美國電子SIM卡應用程式，卻發現無一與她的手機相容；紐約的物流安排只得稍作延緩；首先，搭的士進曼哈頓
COURIER PORTABLE lands in New York smoothly and plugs into John F. Kennedy International Airport wifi to download several apps for a United States eSim, only to discover that none are compatible with her mobile phone; New York logisticking will have to be handled just a tiny bit slower; first, a taxi into Manhattan
2026-03-02，16:54：
在桃園國際機場的短暫轉機時間所剩無幾；慢遞員易拎笨拙地從第一航班樓移動到二號樓，路途中思考著閱讀標示的文化差異，再次緩慢通過安檢，最終在5號登機口前安頓下來，僅能給正在台北探親數週的友人兼同行慢遞員「自言自語的帥」留下幾則語音訊息
A short layover at Taoyuan International Airport doesn't leave much time; COURIER PORTABLE clumsily moves from Terminal 1 to Terminal 2 thinking about cultural differences in reading signage, passes slowly through security clearance again, and settles down in front of gate 5, only able to leave a few voice messages to her friend and fellow courier The Dashing Soliloquist (HQL-792), who is currently visiting home in Taipei for a few weeks
2026-03-02，14:05：
慢遞員易拎懷著忐忑心情從香港國際機場啟程，因美以聯軍突襲伊朗引發戰火，而美州（所謂「聯合」的那個）的社會政治氛圍對她為期三個月的駐留顯然不甚友善；所幸中華航空經台北轉機的航班供應了愛心小熊主題點心，這份可愛軟化了旅途的鋒芒——隨即迎來短暫的酣眠
COURIER PORTABLE departs from Hong Kong International Airport in nervous spirits, as a war has just broken out due to US and Israeli attacks on Iran, and the sociopolitical environment in the States ("the 'united' ones) seems less than welcoming for her three-month sojourn in the country; a flight on China Airlines via Taipei offers Care Bears-themed snacks, however, and the cuteness softens her journey—a short nap ensues
媒體記錄 TRACKING:
麥金尼 McKinney
偷拍美國郵政署的新財產 Stealing an illegal shot of United States Postal Service’s new property
非慢遞服務的收據，金額高於書本身的費用
Receipt for non-LIGHT LOGISTICS services more than the cost of the book
布魯克林 Brooklyn
緩件號HQL-793、HQL-794、HQL-795及HQL-796的臨時轉運站 Impromptu relay centre for dispatches HQL-793, HQL-794, HQL-795 and HQL-796
約翰·F·甘迺迪國際機場 John F. Kennedy Airport
寒冷潮濕的抵達，在大麻味的紐約市 Cold and wet arrival in a marijuana-infused New York City
