布魯塞爾 Brussels 經由 VIA
阿姆斯特丹 Amsterdam +
鹿特丹 Rotterdam
兩罐
2 cans
香香 ZOENHO +
林葉子 LIN Yezi
慢遞招募發布
ROUTE REQUESTED：
2025-02-23，19:31
2025-06-10，16:22 UTC +01：
慢遞員林小姐透露她打算偷用一下緩件號HQL-662的內容：「我想一罐帶過去。一罐我想了另一個場景拍」
COURIER Ms. LIN decides to pilfer from dispatch HQL-662：I'll only bring one can to the destination. I have another idea for the second can
2025-05-27，UTC +02：
因為官先生不能跟我一起去比利時了， 林小姐從蘇黎世回來以後在阿姆見到了以前的慢遞員香香，香香聽了我們HQL-662行動願意加入此次行動！林小姐很開心，其他慢遞員也很開心！不過香香是金牛座，林小姐是天蠍座 😱，他們倆是對宮，林小姐沒有跟金牛座工作過！有點緊張又覺得有點放心！
After it turns out that LIGHT LOGISTICIAN Mr. KRAMER is unable to go to Belgium with courier Ms. LIN, she returns from a trip to Zürich and meets with ZOENHO, another Display Distribute courier, in Amsterdam. When ZOENHO learns of the HQL-662 action, they agree to join the mission, and Ms. LIN and LIGHT LOGISTICIANs are all very happy; however, ZOENHO is a Taurus, and Ms. LIN is a Scorpio 😱 —opposite sides of the spectrum! Ms. LIN has never collaborated with a Taurus before, she is a both a bit relieved as well as nervous!
2025-05-13，UTC +02：
林小姐見到鹿特丹轉運站負責人官無名，和官先生去了林小姐以前打工的地方 😂 還聊了其他慢遞員的八卦哈哈哈哈！
COURIER Ms. LIN meets with LIGHT LOGISTICIAN Mr. KRAMER at Roodkapje, where Ms. LIN was formerly employed 😂; they gossip together about other couriers and LOGISTICIANS
2025-05-11，UTC +02：
慢遞員林小姐更新：「出發去鹿特丹！還帶了一瓶酒給官先生看一下！」
COURIER Ms. LIN UPDATE："Headed to Rotterdam with one can of Hoegaarden for Florian to see!"
2025-05-09，18:40 UTC +02：
慢遞員林小姐到達阿姆斯特丹史基浦機場，下飛機之後回到阿姆斯壯的朋友家就檢查了一下啤酒和鞋子！
COURIER Ms. LIN arrives at Schipol Airport and heads to a friend's house, making sure to inspect that her shoes and HQL-662's dispatch beer are in good order
2025-05-08，21:00：
慢遞員林小姐從廣州出發，有她的朋友張久我陪她兩個小時的路從黃浦區到白雲機場紀錄她的偷渡實驗失敗
COURIER Ms. LIN departs from Guangzhou accompanied by her friend ZHANG Jiuwo, who is kind enough to travel two hours with her to the airport to help document her smuggling failure
2025-04-24，16:11：
慢遞員林小姐：「我簽証下來了」
COURIER Ms. LIN：I got my visa
2025-04-09，21:27：
慢遞員姑婆：「關稅戰開始了，偷渡又要理性起來了！！」
LIGHT LOGISTICIAN GUPO：Tariff war starts, smuggling might be back!!
2025-04-03，19:56：
慢遞員易拎：「我們有一個慢遞員即將從中國去荷蘭，所以如果我們還要想偷渡什麼，我們可以再想想什麼東西，這個東西跟我們和他們有什麼關係」
LIGHT LOGISTICIAN PORTABLE：We have another courier who will travel from China to Netherlands soon, so if we are still thinking about smuggling, we can rethink what that can be, and how it relates to us and them
2025-04-03，15:20：
慢遞員官無名：「可是木頭鞋子是荷蘭的，不是比利時的⋯⋯」
LIGHT LOGISTICIAN Florian CRAMER：Wooden shoes are a Dutch, not a Belgian thing though...
2025-04-03，13:11：
慢遞員大雨象：「另一個想法：我們委託一位從香港去比利時的『慢遞演員』，穿著木屐鞋子帶一罐啤酒和藝術書，錄下其行程，在空間櫥窗放映這個過程。當啤酒在機場被拒絕，便喝下/倒掉整罐，帶著空瓶起飛。」
LIGHT LOGISTICIAN lß：Another idea: we commission a “courier-moving actor” to travel from Hong Kong to Belgium, wearing wooden shoes and carrying a can of beer and an art book, videotape the journey, and show the process in the window of the space. When the beer was rejected at the airport, he/she drinks/pours the whole can then takes off with the empty bottle.
2025-02-23，19:31：
Dear Display Distribute -
My name’s Henry ANDERSEN. I’m contacting you from Brussels, Belgium, where I run a small, ad-hoc project space called Winona together with two dear friends.
From May of this year until the end of November, we’ve taken over the lease on a small shop in a shopping arcade and are putting together a fast, provisional program of different things of different durations, some lasting one night, some stretching over several months. We want to run a gallery program where different rhythms and different works might overlap and collide in the space.
As we start to put the program together, we’ve been searching around for possible allies.
Your practice has been a long time inspiration for us, thinking about artist-run distribution, autonomous publishing and how to make things happen by simply rerouting limited means. Winona has always been an experiment in how to merge different small-scale economic models in order to run a high level program without (or with very limited) means. Personally too, we’ve several times used the Light Logistics network, and have been amazed by the sociality it brings to the normally mundane experience of receiving post.
We’re reaching out becasue we wanted to see if there is some way that we could involve you in our space in Brussels. I’d seen that you’ve worked with exhibition formats before (the very nice intervention in Hamburger Bahnhof), but I think in general we’d be very interested to see if perhaps parts of your activities could be made to overlap with parts of ours, and that we could find some way to ‘use’ the space in Brussels as a part of your project.
So - I realise its a little bit vague as a proposal, and we have almost nothing to offer (except space and attention), but it its potentially of interest, we’d be really happy to speak about if/how to make something happen.
Yours from here,
Henry ANDERSEN
東港口 Oostplein
緩件號從阿姆斯特丹往鹿特丹的路上 Dispatch HQL-662 en route from Amsterdam to Rotterdam
阿姆斯特丹 Amsterdam
鞋子因為被檢查還貼了南方航空的貼紙 Cross-border inspection evidence from China Southern Airlines
「其實出發之前大概5.8號早上，我在鞋子的tongue上畫了展銷場的logo哈哈哈哈」 “Actually it was on the morning of 8 May when I departed that I drew a Display Distribute logo on the tongue of the shoe, hahahaha“
白雲機場 Baiyun Airport
張久我幫忙紀錄慢遞員林小姐的慢遞
COURIER Ms. LIN documented by ZHANG Jiuwo
2025-06-03，11:11 UTC+01：
收件人：「我收到書了，非常感謝！菲利佩（寫錯了，不是蒂亞戈）帶來書，而且收到的時候書的狀況很好，還有美麗的包裝和繩子做的提手」
RECEIVER："I did receive the book. Thank you so much! Filipe (not Tiago, I got it wrong). He brought it, and it arrived in great condition with beautiful wrapping paper and a handle as well."
2025-04-16，17:08：
易拎先到達，在閘內慢慢看匆忙的人走來走去，同時等待蒂亞戈先生發消息通知他會在哪個出口附近；幾分鐘後，蒂亞戈先生在B出口外被發現，兩位慢遞員迅速會面，易拎向他解釋為什麼展銷場沒有將收件人的書郵寄給他
PORTABLE arrives first and waits inside the gate people-watching while waiting for Mr. Tiago to message about which exit he will be at; a few minutes later, Mr. Tiago is found outside of exit B, and the two have a quick encounter where PORTABLE explains why Display Distribute is not posting RECEIVER's books to him
2025-04-16，10:53：
變了街頭點，不容易被跟蹤：「可以今天下午五點到九龍奧運地鐵站嗎？」
Plans change, good for not being followed："Can you meet today in Olympic MTR station, Kowloon, 5pm?
2025-04-15，08:47：
慢遞員易拎和蒂亞戈先生約好明天下午5點在太子碰面
Arrangements are made between LIGHT LOGISTICIAN PORTABLE and Mr. Tiago, who lives in Kowloon, to meet around 5pm the next day in Prince Edward
2025-04-09，16:37：
不知情的轉運慢遞員和收件人的好朋友蒂亞戈先生回到香港了，可以聯繫安排接力
Unwitting relay courier and good friend of RECEIVER, Mr. Tiago, is back in Hong Kong and ready to be contacted for a handover
2025-04-07，17:47：
下了單之後，收件人直接聯繫展銷場提出自己的派送計畫：「我認識一個在香港的人，他可以幫我寄過來，你們看這樣方便嗎？他其實現在不在香港，但是他住附近所以應該不會是個問題。他若返香港我跟你說一下。」
After placing his order, RECEIVER gets in touch with Display Distribute to offer their own dispatch journey: "I know someone in Hong Kong who can send it to me directly. Let me know if that works for you! He’s actually not in Hong Kong at the moment, but he lives nearby, so I don’t think it will be a problem. I’ll let you know as soon as he’s back in Hong Kong."
展銷場 Display Distribute 經由 VIA
鹿特丹 Rotterdam +
曼谷 Bangkok +
清邁 Chiang Mai
7 本 copies BBA03 +
5 本 copies Urban Kitsch
虧 KUI +
林子 LINzi +
น้ำขึ้น 媽媽
NAMKHEUN mama +
kantida +
belle +
Amy GOWEN HumDrumPress +
Reliable Copy
慢遞招募發布
ROUTE REQUESTED：
2024-09-28，09:33
2025-06-01，19:35 UTC+07：
慢遞員虧安全到達曼谷，也跟HQL-644的臨時轉運管理人kantida聯繫好；計畫說定3號在Bangkok CityCity圖書館書店見面，午後到三點前
Courier KUI safely arrives in Bangkok and establishes contact with kantida, who is temporary relay manager for HQL-644; they plan to meet at Bangkok CityCity Bookshop Library on the 3rd, around noon and before 3pm
2025-05-24：
因為她剛好辭了工作，要去泰國旅行慶祝，新慢遞員虧舉手報名接緩件號HQL-644剩餘的幾本書；ta將從6月1到3或4 日左右在曼谷，之後往北去清邁探訪朋友
New LIGHT LOGISTICS courier KUI volunteers to help pick up the remainder of HQL-644 as she happens to be taking a celebratory trip to Thailand after quitting her day job; they will be in Bangkok from the first of June to around the 3rd or 4th, then head north to Chiang Mai to visit friends
2025-04-27，10:31 UTC+08：
慢遞員林子在空中過夜，從曼谷回到他住的長洲島；早上第一件事便是把他拿的部分HQL-644放到還在安靜中的長洲島轉運站；派送成功
COURIER LINzi takes an overnight journey from Bangkok back to Changzhou Island, and drops off his portion of HQL-644 first thing in the morning, mission accomplished
2025-04-26，14:39 UTC+07：
慢遞員kantida更新：「大家好，我們見面了！林子收到了3本《黑書》和3本《Urban Kitsch》」；剩下來4本《黑書眾》03和2本Urban Kitsch等待轉運
COURIER kantida UPDATE："Hi everyone, we met! So LINzi received 3 copies of BBA and 3 copies of Urban Kitsch"; continued relay waiting for the remaining 4 copies of BBA03 and 2 copies of Urban Kitsch
2025-04-26，12:30 UTC+08：
順藤摸瓜得知長洲島轉運站的朋友林子今晚會從曼谷飛回廣州的消息，展銷場迅速地把他介紹給慢遞員kantida，並立刻過去找她接單，他能帶少就帶多少吧～
Grapevine news is received that friend of Changzhou Island Relay Centre LINzi is flying from Bangkok to Guangzhou this very night, and arrangements are quickly made for handing over as much of HQL-644 as his carry-on luggage can handle
2025-04-11，09:47 UTC+07：
慢遞員kantida更新：「漲潮的媽媽今天早上來給了7本黑書眾的書，一位很可愛的媽媽，很活潑又很可愛的人」；HQL-644已拼單好，仍然等待轉運
COURIER kantida UPDATE："NAMKHEUN’s mama came and gave 7 copies of the BBA book this morning, she is a very lovely mama, very energetic and just a lovely human being"; HQL-644 still awaiting relay
2025-04-10，09:47 UTC+07：
因為有其它一小批書在曼谷等待轉運香港，緩件號HQL-644準備拼單；出版社น้ำขึ้น（漲潮）更新：「我媽媽明天進城，之後也要出差，所以她還是明天送書過去好了」
A few other books have been waiting in Bangkok for muling to Hong Kong, so dispatch HQL-644 prepares to get fatter; PUBLISHER NAMKHEUN UPDATE："My mom is going into the city tomorrow and will leave town afterwards, so better she go drop them off tomorrow"
2025-04-04，18:11 UTC+07：
慢遞員belle更新：「到達曼谷→安全到手」；交給慢遞員kantida成功，等待轉運
COURIER belle UPDATE：Landed in BKK → now in good hands; handover to COURIER kantida successful, awaiting relay
2025-03-28，UTC+07：
緩件號HQL-644安全落到曼谷一間在14樓的公寓
Dispatch HQL-644 marked safe on the 14th floor of a Bangkok condo
2025-03-26，UTC+07：
慢遞員belle和緩件號HQL-644到達蘇凡納布機場
COURIER belle and dispatch HQL-644 arrive at Suvarnabhumi Airport
I got them, thank you @Amy for the HumDrumPress books they are wonderful!! I will keep you all posted on where the Urban Kitsch buddies will land in Bangkok. I’m flying Tuesday so we can arrange something.
Happy to join the network and looking forward to the book fair with Display Distribute and Theetat’s collab later this year!
Quick update. The publications were successfully dropped off at the librarian/reception desk inside the research centre. They know you'll be coming to pick up the books at some point this afternoon, Belle.
I also included three HumDrumPress titles for you to keep, Belle :-)
A quick one for now as I was away this weekend and am now rushing off to the office for the day. Thanks so much for putting this relay work/dispatch line together, everything. I'd be very happy to be help send the Reliable Copy books towards their final destination point.
Belle, I will in the office all day together for my day job but am on my way right now to drop off the books at the reception of WdKA (the reception near to the research centre). There is a note for you on the books, as shown in the image attached.
Let me know if you have any trouble receiving them. I will be finishing work at 5pm and can come to WdKA via my route home if needed.
Warm wishes,
Amy
2025-03-22，12:46 UTC+02：
鹿特丹轉運中心終於落實一位自願慢遞員將很快從荷蘭旅行至泰國；rendezvous小組在兩位慢遞員和展銷場間通過電郵確認了轉運，新的慢遞員belle提議週末在她家或者Charlois和Tarwebuurt間某處碰面，或者週一在她Willem de Kooning學院的工作地點
Rotterdam Relay Centre finally locates a volunteer courier traveling soon from the Netherlands to Thailand; group rendezvous between both couriers and Display Distribute relay nodes established by e-mail, with new courier belle proposing a meet-up over the weekend either at her home between Charlois and Tarwebuurt, or on Monday at her workplace, the Willem de Kooning Academy
2024-10，下午晚些 latter half：
HQL-644本被和 HQL-643一起送往清邁，但在藝術書展的物流混亂後，慢遞員HumDrumPress的Amy意外的將它帶回了鹿特丹；新的轉運線路已經確認，轉運去亞洲等待中
HQL-644 is originally planned to ride together with HQL-643 to Chiang Mai, but in the logistical chaos after the art book fair, courier Amy from HumDrumPress accidentally brings it back to Rotterdam with her; new relay route established, awaiting relay to Asia
2024-10-14，11:33 UTC+02： 在MissRead藝術書展期間，展銷場合力Reliable Copy 出版給了Humdrum Press的Amy5本他們新的出版物「Urban Kitsch」，並安排了和他們的交易；）這個緩件HQL-644最終會送去香港納入展銷場書庫
Display Distribute collaborating publisher Reliable Copy gives 5 copies of their new title Urban Kitsch to Amy from Humdrum Press during the MissRead art book fair, and also arranges a trade with them, too ；）This dispatch, now HQL-644, hopes eventually to make it back to Hong Kong to join the Display Distribute distro
長洲島 Changzhou Island
林子虔誠地把他拿HQL-644的部分放到廣州長洲島轉運站 LINzi piously slips his part of HQL-644 back to the Guangzhou Relay Centre on Changzhou Island
沙吞路 Sathorn
正在進行空調修理的Bangkok CityCity畫廊書店圖書館，所有書都被塑料布蓋著保護 Outside the Bookshop Library of Bangkok CityCity Gallery, which is undergoing air conditioner maintenance and everything is covered in plastic to protect from leaks and drips
慢遞員belle的IG更新 COURIER belle’s Instagram update
慢遞員Kantida和Belle交接 COURIERS kantida and belle during their handover
น้ำขึ้น媽媽整理黑書眾書庫 NAMKHEUN mama doing book inventory
慢遞員Kantida和น้ำขึ้น媽媽交接成功 Successful handover between couriers NAMKHEUN mama and Kantida
新慢遞員林子第一次接單的路上 New courier LINzi on his first pick-up
慢遞員林子到了Bangkok CityCity畫廊書店圖書館 Courier LINzi arrives to Bangkok CityCity Bookshop Library
HQL-644的一半準備好出發 Half of dispatch HQL-644 ready for departure
慢遞員Kantida和林子交接成功 Successful handover between couriers Kantida and LINzi
林子在Bangkok CityCity畫廊書店圖書館看見展銷場的書 LINzi spots Display Distribute books at the Bangkok CityCity Bookshop Library
路上 In transit
一家曼谷公寓 The 14th floor of a Bangkok condo
Blaak
慢遞員belle在威廉·德庫寧學院攔件 Courier belle picks up from Willem de Kooning Academie
空閒路線 AVAILABLE ROUTE
—
羅馬
Rome
盧布爾雅那 Ljubljana
高達 up to
2 kg
luluonthetrain
發佈 POSTED：
2025-05-25，16:38
「6月4日 羅馬 - 威尼斯梅斯特雷車站 - 的裏雅斯特 - 盧布爾雅那 6月7日 盧布爾雅那 - 羅馬」 Rome - Venezia Mestre - Trieste - Ljubljana on the 4th of June Ljubljana - Rome on the 7th of June
空閒路線 AVAILABLE ROUTE
—
香港
Hong Kong
倫敦 London
高達 up to
10 kg
Jayne RUSSELL
發佈 POSTED：
2025-05-21，07:11
「2025年8月12日往倫敦去 」 Heading to London on 12th August 2025
2025-05-18，12:11 UTC+02：
慢遞員maoyi更新：「收件人說了好幾次要來我空間但是都沒來 😂」
COURIER maoyi UPDATE："RECEIVER mentioned a few times that they would come by my space but still haven't made it yet 😂"
2025-03-09，14:26 UTC+01：
慢遞員maoyi更新：
降落後我恢復了體力，並準備好了包裹的下一步。
如果我沒記錯的話，收件人也住在鹿特丹。歡迎你來我Charlois的住處（Available & the Rat），正在爭取把它改成一個閱讀室，到月底應該弄好。或者我們也可以在市內找個地方！
請告訴我，再見！
maoyi
COURIER maoyi UPDATE：
I have rejuvenate my energy after landing, and am ready for the next move for the package.
RECEIVER is also living in Rotterdam, if I am not mistaken, maybe we can find to time to meet up the coming two weeks, you are very welcome to come by to my place in Charlois (Available & the Rat), which I am aiming for transform into a reading room by the end of month. Or we could also find somewhere in the city!
Let me know! See you soon!
maoyi
2025-03-07，01:05：
慢遞員maoyi更新：「已經在飛機上，正要起飛；smuggling一切順利哈哈哈」
COURIER maoyi UPDATE：Already on board the plane, about to take off; smuggling successful hahaha
2025-03-04，evening：
在長州島的現場演唱會中，一個黑暗的秘密角落被設置在一個密室中；交易（現金！）在一個小的暖黃色燈光下進行；隨後攬件在一個有巨大的、可伸縮帳篷的夜市裡進行
A dark, secret corner is established in a back room during a live concert on Changzhou Island; transaction (in cash!) is made under a small, warm yellow light, handover follows later under over street food under a massive, retractable tent
2025-02-25，15:40：
慢遞員易拎對於搭乘巴士穿越深圳灣邊境的過境約會略微有點緊張，因為她帶著比平常更多的書，包括HQL-653以及其他幾本慢遞員maoyi要求瀏覽的作品，他將透過從展銷場書庫取回再帶回鹿特丹家中的圖書館，他能從慢遞員的折扣中大賺一筆；書籍被擠在易拎的背包、箱子和相框之間。當海關人員問她試圖從X光機中解救的大箱子裡裝的是什麼時，她結巴了一會兒，然後說：「畫框」；所有物品都通過了檢查，HQL-653運輸班次在兩個半小時後抵達廣州。
COURIER PORTABLE is slightly nervous about the cross border rendezvous by bus across the Shenzhen Bay border, as she is carrying a larger stash of books than usual, including HQL-653 as well as a few other requested browsing pieces for COURIER maoyi, who will make big on their courier's discount by picking up titles from the Display Distribute distro to take back for their Rotterdam home library; books are squeezed in PORTABLE's backpack, in boxes and between picture frames. When the customs officer asks her what is in the large box she is trying to rescue from the x-ray machine, she fumbles for a bit, then says, "picture frames"; all pass, and dispatch HQL-653 arrives to Guangzhou two and a half hours later.
黃埔區 Whampoa District
緩件號HQL-653在長洲島雨天下的夜市已攬件 Dispatch HQL-653 picked up on a rainy evening at the night market on Changzhou Island
到達
COMPLETED：
2025-05-09，晚上六點左右 around 18:00 UTC+07
慢遞招募發布
ROUTE REQUESTED：
2025-05-07，16:20 UTC+07
2025-05-09，晚上六點左右 around 18:00 UTC+07：
收件人自己來到KUNCI取件的時候Fiky沒在，但是他的夥伴AP瞬速來接力，「我們只聊了一點點」；派送成功！
When RECEIVER arrives to KUNCI for self-pick-up of her dispatch, Fiky is not there, but his collaborator AP swiftly picks up and coordinates; though "We only talk a bit", handover successful!
2025-05-07，08:24 UTC+07：
由於展銷場慢遞員已於7號離開日惹，連夜安排收件人挑選書展結束後的剩餘3本書籍；在前往火車站之前，慢遞員易拎將「買三送一」的幾本帶到KUNCI學習論壇小組的空間作為日惹的臨時中繼站，使用藝術書展稍有損壞的一張海報包裝成緩件號HQL-663的慢遞，並教學新的接力慢遞員FIKY稍後與收件人會面
As LIGHT LOGISTICIANs are already departing Yogyakarta on the 7th, quick overnight arrangements are made for RECEIVER's selection from the books still remaining after the book fair; before she heads to the train station, courier PORTABLE brings the 'buy 3 get 1 free' set of books to the temporary Yogyakarta relay station at KUNCI Study Forum & Collective, wraps what now becomes dispatch HQL-663 using a slightly damaged poster from the book fair, and leaves instructions for new relay courier FIKY to meet with RECEIVER later
2025-05-06，20:04 UTC+07：
「你好，我在日惹藝術書展的時候去了你們的攤位買了幾本書——包括你們的學習本系列的其中一本 😃 剛看完（學習讀本系列的），內容很吸引我，讓我後悔只買了一本 :’-] 請問有沒有辦法再買一本？或者有什麼辦法可以讀到這系列的其它書？ 🤭😓🤭」
"Hello! I was one of the visitors that visited your booth in yogyakarta art book festival! I bought some books including one of your learning book series 😃 I just finished reading that (the learning book series) and was so intrigued with the content + regretted my decision to only buy one :’-] is there any possibility to buy the book/zine? Or any way to access the series? 🤭😓🤭"
Mantrijeron
在KUNCI學習論壇小組的短期轉運站 Temporary relay centre at KUNCI Study Forum & Collective
收件人收貨紀錄 RECEIVER’s documentation
「你好！抱歉晚回覆！！我收到書啦 :-]」 “hello! Sorry for the very late response!! I have received the books :-]”
Wirobrajan
收件人從日惹藝術書展剩下來的書選的閱讀本
RECEIVER’s selection of Display Distribute books left after the Yogyakarta Art Book Fair
Happy to report that this package has been safely delivered along with an additional "passenger" of the Travelling Bagsby tote bag, a separate carrier project also making its way around the world passing from hand-to-hand. I am attaching relevant photos.
可以手機聯繫我（831-400-XXX）或者IG（@XXX），看哪個方便。Mandarin or English are both fine!
如果需要什麼幫忙或者要介紹什麼地方跟我說一下：）
快見面<3
❤️，
收件人
RECEIVER REPLY：
Hi RH,
I haven't been following the order for a while but omg, this is so exciting!
Nice to e-meet you and thank you so much for bringing my books. I hope you had a pleasant trip and are enjoying your time here in San Francisco.
I am happy to meet up anywhere in San Francisco yes. (I live near the civic center, if that info helps.) When would you be staying here until? I will be traveling outside town this Saturday, but have time on Sunday and onwards. Happy to grab coffee / food / take a walk together!
Please feel free to reach me via text messages (831-400-XXX) or IG (@XXX) if that's easier. 国语或是英文都可以!
Let me know if you need anything / recommendations while you are in town ：）
Looking forward meeting you soon. <3
Love,
RECEIVER
2025-04-25，09:47 UTC-07：
慢遞員RH更新：「在三藩市啦，剛昨天到了」
COURIER RH UPDATE："I'm in SF now, just got here yesterday"
2025-04-19，13:35：
慢遞員睡了六個小時醒了之後到了五金轉運站吃brunch跟慢遞員RH回合，交接好看成功
Courier trixie BEAUCHAMP arrives after about 6 hours of sleep for brunch with courier RH at the Wujin relay centre, handover pretty and successful
2025-04-14，11:28：
轉運慢遞員何穎宜和trixie BEAUCHAMP幾次與取件中預約失敗後，終於在下個週末的全日brunch餐上可以安排交接；約會已經定下，中繼即將開始
After a few failed meeting attempts with pick-up relay courier Rania HO, she and courier trixie BEAUCHAMP finally find coincidence for all-day brunch the following weekend; appointment is made, relay imminent
COURIER Trixie BEAUCHAMP UPDATE："I just wrote a poem"
Iced coffee.
In the taxi:
Running-on-empty
Top-set-slightly
-overlapping-the-under-type
Feeling,
Set on edge - but,
So elated
Yes, sleep deprived, sure
& too much wonder &
Dumbstruck trust; more
Like Eros
Once again! Delivering
On that which was never possible
In my last life
(Last fortnight)
Onion’s topcoat
(Mashed garlic)
Sloughed off out of frame
to reveal some deep pool
Ace of Cups, like
Sufi tarot: my gift to Maryam
And with this knowing
And tearful gratitude
Comes the darker shade of real, too.
2025-03-31，22:02：
慢遞員Trixie BEAUCHAMP從她廣州往北京的動車上報告：「感覺睡眠超不足，但今晚睡前想寫點東西」
COURIER Trixie BEAUCHAMP reports from her sleeper train from Guangzhou to Beijing："I feel so sleep deprived, but I'm trying to write before I sleep tn 😪"
2025-03-31，14:26：
慢遞員Trixie BEAUCHAMP在整個大陸的工作/生活旋風之旅中跟著朋友的介紹來到廣州東，巧合在她晚上要去北京的同一天拜訪長洲島轉運站；因為有準備去三藩市的慢遞員在北京等待，Trixie順手救了緩件HQL-658，因為最近迷戀了漫畫爾有個機會偷看緩件裡面的《WHD》，也很高興有機會在北京認識新朋友
COURIER Trixie BEAUCHAMP comes to visit east Guangzhou on the recommendation of a friend, finding herself at the Changzhou Island Relay Centre on the same day that she is scheduled to depart for Beijing during a whirlwind work/life tour throughout the mainland; with a San Francisco-bound courier waiting in Beijing, Trixie heroically picks up dispatch HQL-658, happy to meet new friends and hopefully get a chance to peek through the contents of WHD in line with her recent fascination with manga and comics
渡輪大廈附近 Near Ferry Building
渡輪大廈附近的晚早上（10，11點左右）咖啡交收會 A late morning (10/11am-ish) coffee somewhere in the vicinity of the ferry building
東城區 Dongcheng District
「我們在方家胡同67號，找一下66號的入口」 “We’re at number 67, just look for entrance to number 66 Fangjia Hutong“
緩件號HQL-658在五金轉運站擺幾個pose Dispatch HQL-658 posing at the Wujin relay centre
火車南站 Guangzhou South Railway Station
長洲島 Changzhou Island
空閒路線 AVAILABLE ROUTE
—
香港
Hong Kong
柏林 Berlin 和或者 AND/OR
貝爾格萊德 Belgrade 和或者 AND/OR
倫敦 London
高達 up to
2 kg
sapphire KETCHUP
發佈 POSTED：
2025-04-24，16:22
「我夏天到這些地方可以為展銷場帶什麼 」 I'm going here this summer if i can carry anything for LIGHT LOGISTICS
空閒路線 AVAILABLE ROUTE
—
香港 中環 / 尖沙咀
Hong Kong
Central / Tsim Sha Tsui
香港 / 深圳 / 廈門 / 杭州 / 武漢 任何地方⋯⋯
Anywhere in Hong Kong / Shenzhen / Xiamen / Hangzhou / Wuhan...
高達 up to
9 kg
Clair
發佈 POSTED：
2025-04-24，13:26
「可以快速派送到港島九龍兩邊，大部分的週末也可以去深圳（像大部分香港人）；到廈門 / 杭州 /武漢 的地點估計要半年的時間，有計畫國慶中秋假去一趟景德鎮（很想香港的藝術書展再可以舉辦一次 T.T，我是那時候遇到了人肉慢遞和他們很妙的小攤位 」 Speedy delivery around HK Island & Kowloon sides, available to travel to Shenzhen on weekends (as most of the HKers I guess); may take half a year to destinations like Xiamen / Hangzhou / Wuhan, planning to visit Jingdezhen this National Day/Mid-Autumn holiday (I wish the art book fair in HK back T.T , that's when I met LIGHT LOGISTICS, with the wonderful little booth)
東京 Tokyo 經由 VIA
東莞 Dongguan +
深圳 Shenzhen +
香港 Hong Kong
運輸時間
DELIVERY TIME：
大概26天
approximately 26 days
訂單 ORDER
WC-9473
1 本 copy
金米米
Mimi JIN
到達
COMPLETED：
2025-04-15，晚上 evening UTC+09
慢遞招募發布
ROUTE REQUESTED：
2025-03-21，夜晚 late evening
2025-04-15，晚上 evening UTC+09：
慢遞員金米米其實早幾日在澀谷工作的時候見面了收件人，但是那天沒帶書，所以工作忙完後在東京還有時間玩一下，就跟收件人約了吃飯，在杉並区高圓寺一起吃美味的沖繩料理；派送成功
Courier Ms. JIN actually met RECEIVER a few days ago in Shibuya during her work gig, but since she didn't have dispatch HQL-657 on her at the time, an appointment is made for a few days later and on the 15th Tuesday night, they meet in the Kōenji area of Suginami ward and enjoy Okinawan cuisine together with a successful handover
2025-04-08，11:41：
慢遞員金小姐在離開廣州長洲島的早上攬緩件號HQL-657，她先要去東莞工作，然後在深圳住一晚再過關到香港：「HK看Coldplay學習一下🤭😓🤭」
Courier Ms. JIN picks up dispatch HQL-657 on the morning of her departure from Changzhou Island in Guangzhou; she heads first to Dongguan for work, and will stay in Shenzhen for the night before crossing the border to Hong Kong: "See Coldplay to study a bit🤭😓🤭"
2024-04-03，13:26 UTC-04：
慢遞員นนท์更新：「給你來信通知一下訂單3月24日在馬薩諸塞州劍橋成功派送完！過了好幾年啦！很高興認識收件人L跟你聊聊天，歡迎你隨時來纽黑文」
COURIER NON UPDATE："Just writing to let you know that the order has been successfully delivered on March 24th in Cambridge, MA! After several years in the making! It was great to meet you and have a chat with you, RECEIVER L, you are welcome to New Haven any time."
2024-04-13，03:23 UTC-04：
收件人更新：「我還沒有見到 NON 😅，他當時忙於參加的討論會。我們原計劃在我工作的地方（新開的韓國餐廳和酒吧）見面，但他沒能成行。我想，NON 有很多事情要做，而且他反正也沒有帶上書。新店開張後，我也忙得不可開交。我計劃本月底或五月初去一趟紐約，所以希望能在路上經由康涅狄格州，也許到時候能見到 NON。一旦對自己的日程安排和出城能力有了更多瞭解，我會再聯繫！」
RECEIVER UPDATE： I did not meet NON yet 😅 they were very busy with the conference. We planned to meet at my work place (new Korean restaurant and cocktail bar) but they weren’t able to make it. I think there was quite a lot going for NON and they didn’t have the package with them in any case. I’ve also been so busy with this new place opening. I plan to head to NYC end of the month/beginning of May so I hope to stop along the way in CT and maybe see NON then. I’ll be in touch once I know more about my schedule and ability to leave town!
Sorry to hear about the job situation, LY. Hope you are in a better place now. I'm headed to Cambridge for a conference this weekend and can pass you your order. Feel free to Whatsapp me: +1 929 XXX XXXX.
Sorry it’s taken me so long to reply. I was laid off at the end of July and still looking for a job. Very stressful times and trying to find solutions… and also find my head again!
I am in Boston right now and will be here for another nine days.
I’m out of town: 06/09 to 11/09.
In town again 12/09 to 30/09.
Will you be in Boston within this window?
I will message you on WhatsApp tomorrow!
Cheers,
L
2023-07-05，UTC +08 + UTC-12：
微信通信建立好了，感覺展銷場的慢遞員和收件人可以成為朋友了
WeChat communique established between one of the Display Distribute LIGHT LOGISTICIANs and the receiver, seems like a new friendship in the works
2023-07-05，11:29：
慢遞員นนท์更新：「我短暫停留新加坡（周某之類的），因為我上個月在雅加達/萬隆進行實地考察，然後我剛移到曼谷再待一個月；八月份回纽黑文
COURIER NON UPDATE：I am now briefly in Singapore (like on weekends), I just moved from Jakarta/Bandung to Bangkok for fieldwork, and will be here for a month; will be back in New Haven in August
After extended delay, contact finally established with receiver, who writes:
Oh my goodness! What a good sign! Wow wow, that’s amazing. Thank you so much for taking my book on such a traveling adventure! I will live vicariously through my book, I miss Hong Kong so much... have not been home in a really long time now!
I am still in Cambridge... unfortunately I won’t be in New Haven any time soon.
I do have a friend in New Haven... and maybe he will be so kind as to keep my book safe and pass it on to me at some point. You see, I’m traveling to Iceland in a few days and won’t be back until 8/9.
I will ask my friend if he can hold my book for me. He works at DAE New Haven, a nonprofit arts education space. The space is at 770 Chapel St. Let me just confirm that he wants to help me before you drop it off there. How long will the courier-friend be in New Haven? I see some notes about a PhD August 16. Is that in New Haven? Even if the courier-friend might be able to drop off my book with my (soon to be courier-)friend (ha) I would really like to meet this international courier-friend sometime, and treat them to a meal.
I am so touched that they carried my book on such a journey! Thank you so much for trying forever to get in touch with me.
A million thank yous and hope we meet some day
2022-12-22，11:44 UTC-05：
慢遞員นนท์更新：「我好像把它 [HQL-457] 留在香港了，但是我一月份還會去拜訪一下，到時候可以帶」
COURIER NON UPDATE：I think I left [dispatch HQL-457] in HK but I am visiting in January and will bring it then
2022-08-29，22:50 UTC-04：
慢遞員นนท์更新：「抱起一直沒有我的消息，我這幾個星期一直在路上：香港 —> 新加坡 —> 紐約 —> 纽黑文；我現在已經在紐黑文安頓好了」
COURIER NON UPDATE：So sorry for the radio silence, I have been moving between HK —> SG —> NY —>NH the past few weeks and it has been rather intense; I am all settled now in New Haven
慢遞員NON先生剛從香港的某一個大學畢業，所以緩件號HQL-456和HQL-457有了機會跟他一起離開香港；他將於7月份經過新加坡，然後於8月16日跳到美國攻讀博士學位
Dispatches HQL-456 and HQL-457 join courier Mr. NON for his departure from Hong Kong after finishing a history degree; he will pass through Singapore in July before jumping on to a PhD in the United States on 16 August
劍橋 Cambridge
收件人等待HQL-457时采摘黑莓 Receiver picking berries while waiting for HQL-457
終於交收啦 Final handover in Cambridge
慢遞員和收件人快樂地自拍 COURIER and RECEIVER happy selfie
微信 WeChat
慢遞員和收件人訴苦會
LIGHT LOGISTICIAN and receiver trauma-bonding
九龍城 Kowloon City
緩件號HQL-456、HQL-457、自做的陶瓷和蜜瓜 Dispatches HQL-456 and HQL-457, handmade ceramics, and honeydew
空閒路線 AVAILABLE ROUTE
—
廣州 Guangzhou
墨爾本 Melbourne
高達 up to
5 kg
阿夢
aMENG
發佈 POSTED：
2025-03-27，12:03
「4月15日從廣州出發到墨爾本，離開前可能會在廣州&深圳&香港，時間未定。 」 Departing on April 15th from Guangzhou to Melbourne, and before leaving I might be in Guangzhou & Shenzhen & Hong Kong, dates are not fixed.
2025-03-25，早上 morning：
COURIER PORTABLE REPORT: I had originally planned to deliver this dispatch to you during office hours next week, in line with another appointment near your workplace, but your gentle inquiry prompts a re-routing, and we decide to meet earlier over the weekend, at your other workplace, in another, more tightly fitted identity. You moonlight as a fitness instructor, information which I had heard about you from your colleagues before knowing you, and when I come up to the first floor after your Saturday morning class, you are glamorously sweatless in spandex, with long, long eyelashes that look confusedly at the large box I have wheeled in on my trolley. I tell you that is for another delivery afterwards, and then pull out the more compactly wrapped dispatch HQL-656 from my backpack before handing it to you. You don't open it, but we chat for a while at the threshold of the now quiet gym, and you tell me that these books will be sent to Kyrgyzstan as a contribution to a mobile library project there. I am happy for the authors who will surely will be very pleased to know their publications will make it to far-reaching places, an extra apt on-going journey for our books. And then our conversation meanders back to Hong Kong, where you tell me that this week will not only be buzzing with Art Basel happenings, but also the Hong Kong Sevens rugby matches. I make a cynical remark about the two 'markets' maybe not being so different, and your slight pause hints that either the joke has been lost or perhaps that you don't agree. Most of us, most of the time, avoid confrontation with those we don't know well, and perhaps it becomes a really rare and precious thing to really know what someone else is thinking. This is a linguistic question, but it is also one of time and feeling as they seep through all the pauses of our conversation. We say that we hope to see one another again. Dispatch HQL-656 delivery completed.
中西區 Central and Western District
路上看到的 Seen en route
伴隨著HQL-656的貨物，到達讓慢遞員停頓一下的台階 Loads to accompany HQL-656, reaching the single stair step which warrants a pause
2025-03-09，15:07 UTC+1：
收件人報告：「他昨晚有事 不過他回頭可能會來我畫室 今天聊得很開心 真是謝謝你 😊」
RECEIVER REPORT：PILOU was busy last night, but we met up today and had a reallly nice chat, he might come to my studio later; thank you so much 😊
PILOU, this Saturday evening I will make a screening of Agnès Varda’s Sans Toit Ni Loi at my atelier (on the occasion of the International Women’s Day), would be great if you want to come; XX Rue du Bourbonnais, any time before 8pm. Let me know if it works for you, otherwise we can figure out another time/place. Thank you and see you soon!
The book is given to LÜ, then PILOU, who will go to Lyon the next week.
PILOU and RECEIVER JM, you can contact each other to make a rdv in Lyon.
If you want to share anything during the delivery, please write to LIGHT LOGISTICIANS, they will collect all information. Thanks!
LÜ, enjoy your days in UK!
Zhuoya
2025-02-19，13:59：
慢遞員拙雅更新：「我這裡好安靜，印尼怎麼樣？」，詢問關於收件人的郵件訊息，並再次問到關於慢遞應該/需要紀錄些什麼。物流後勤員回覆到：「任何東西都可以，只要是慢遞一路的所見所聞所感，或者對這個遞送有關有趣無趣的事情：）」；慢遞員帶著緩件飄洋過海到達布列達尼，HQL-650等待轉運
COURIER Zhuoya UPDATE："It's very peaceful here, how about in Indonesia?", and asks for the information about contacting the RECEIVER, while also inquiring again about what exactly couriers should document. LIGHT LOGISTICIAN replies, "Anything goes, as long as it's something seen, heard, or felt while on the journey, or anything related to the delivery, however interesting or trivial：）"; COURIER Zhuoya has carried dispatch HQL-650 across the far seas and arrived in Bretagne, currently awaiting relay
2025-01-12，晚間 evening：
慢遞員拙雅是展銷場謀工作員的老朋友，借著過年帶著她的小女兒從法國西海岸回國探親並到廣州拜訪老友；小女兒本身慢熱加上水土不服，除了跟媽媽少少交流，幾乎不搭理熱情的島民；重逢之初，各自人生的際遇分道而去又交疊而來；幾近滿月，老友訴說近況如何壓力山大，拙雅講著此生因為家庭沒法出離；老友想起多年前去拙雅家玩耍，海邊小鎮藍綠色的海水和自顧自躺倒在冬季森林青苔上的年輕媽媽。什麼都變了什麼都沒變。
Courier Zhuoya is an old friend of one of Display Distribute's LOGISTICIANs, and she's come to Guangzhou with her small daughter from the west coast of France for a visit before going back to family during the holiday season; the small girl is slow to acclimate and not adjusted to these surroundings, so other than her mother, she doesn't engage with anyone else on this island in Guangzhou city; with the reunion, however, it is as if the various encounters in each of their lives come all together and overlap; nearing the full moon, LOGISTICIAN shares her recent pressures and obstacles, and Zhuoya tells about how her life has become fixed with the family; LOGISTICIAN is reminded of that time many years ago that she had planned to visit Zhuoya in France, where there is a small town with its blue-green sea and each taking care of themselves and a young mother laying across winter moss. Everything has changed and yet nothing has changed.
里昂 Lyon
收件人紀錄HQL-650 Portrait of HQL-650 by RECEIVER
布列塔尼 Bretagne
「阴天，天还没亮」
“It is cloudy, not yet dawn“
長洲島 Changzhou Island
慢遞員和她的小女兒在泡養生腳 Courier and her daughter pick up dispatch HQL-650 while getting footbaths
2025-03-08，16:56：
慢遞員3in先到江陵路站穿著一件容易看得見的紅色外套在站台等；15分鐘後，快速的交收，慢遞員和收件人分頭走，但是過不久收件人發一條信息：「今天太匆忙了，以為把禮物裝包里居然沒有… 😞 不知道你是不是在湘湖那邊居住！我們五月份左右可能要去那邊佈置畢業展，到時候如果在附近可以直接帶過來，再續緣分！真的感謝 🥹」
COURIER 3in arrives first and waits at the platform wearing an easy to spot red jacket, around 15 minutes later, handover whooshes through successfully and 3in and RECEIVER part ways; just after, RECEIVER sends a message: "It was so rushed today, I thought I had put the gift for you in my bag but I forgot... 😞 Not sure if you live around Xianghu, but in May we'll have to go there to install our graduation exhibition, if you're nearby around that time I can bring it to you, let's see how our fate turns out! Really thanks so much 🥹"
2025-03-08，12:59：
慢遞員3in和收件人臨時決定當天下午匯合，在江凌路站閘內
COURIER 3in and RECEIVER make an impromptu appointment for the same day later in the afternoon, early evening at Jiangling Road metro station
2025-02-22，11:03：
慢遞員3in聯繫收件人：「你好：我是慢遞員3in。最快2月底3月初有時間和你交接～先打招呼，祝好～ 3in」
COURIER 3in contacts RECEIVER：Hello, I'm courier 3in. Will be able to hand over to you soonest end of February or the beginning of March, just saying hello first, wishing you well~
2025-02-17，17:33：
慢遞員3in更新：「離開廣州的天氣很昏暗，空氣中有灰塵和水氣。看樣子，春天在路上。」
COURIER 3in UPDATE：It's gloomy today as I leave Guangzhou, the air is thick with dust and moisture. Seems like spring is on its way.
2025-02-16，19:35：
演出結束後，慢遞員禾子和朋友們搭地鐵到江南西站，穿過熙熙攘攘的菜市場去尋找廣州最便宜的壽司；晚餐剛結束，慢遞員3in就到了；HQL-652交接成功
After the gig, COURIER NANIKO and friends take the metro to Jiangnan Xi station and pass through wet and boisterous markets to find cheap sushi; COURIER 3in arrives just as dinner ends; handover successful
2025-02-16，15:47：
慢遞員禾子在過去的幾個月裡一直在學習DIY裝修工作的混合勞動，她注意到每次出門時，她的注意力就會開始傾向於建築紋理、形式和固定裝的細節；今天她從黃浦區進入海珠區，一是去看朋友的樂隊演出，二是把緩件號HQL-652交給慢遞員3in，後者明天要飛往杭州；音樂會場地比較昏暗，跟一個週日下午的氛圍相差甚遠，但溫暖了流行搖滾樂和戲劇式的燈光
COURIER NANIKO has over the last few months been learning the mixed trade of DIY renovation work, and notices that every time she goes out, her zone of attention begins to lean towards the textures, forms and fixtures of construction detail; today she enters Haizhu District from Huangpu District for the dual purpose of seeing a friend's band play and dropping off dispatch HQL-652 to COURIER 3in, who will be flying to Hangzhou the next day; the concert venue is a dark space for a Sunday afternoon vibe, but warm for pop rock and dramatic lighting
江陵路站 Jiangling Road Station
慢遞員3in在這裡等著 COURIER 3in waiting spot
收件人：「上個樓到一號線的位置！」 RECEIVER: Up one floor to the line 1 spot!
收件人收到HQL-652 RECEIVER handles dispatch HQL-652
萧山 Xiao Mountain
在杭州擺的紅色主題架子 Red-highlights theme resting in Hangzhou
白雲機場 Baiyun Airport
海珠區 Haizhu District
地面分別房間 The floor determines the room
陽光版燈光效果 Transparent PVC panels with lighting effect
2025-03-03，11:43 UTC+1：
慢遞員官太報告：「Sorry一忙起來就忘了回覆訊息，我跟收件人是2/16下午五點在鹿特丹面交」
COURIER Mrs. GUAN REPORT：Sorry, been busy this whole time forgot to reply with details, but I met up for the delivery to RECEIVER on 16 February at 5pm in Rotterdam
2025-02-11，15:27 UTC+1：
慢遞員官太報告：「我面交完就一路忙+搭飛機，昨天回到荷蘭，早上又飛柏林」
COURIER Mrs. GUAN REPORT：Since our handover I've been busy—took the plane and yesterday arrived back in Holland, this morning flew again to Berlin
2025-02-08，between 15:30-16:30 之間：
慢遞員encounters在交接緩件HQL-651那天拍下了追蹤她下落顯示健全的照片；從台北美術館開始，她和緩件下午到達年度一次的台北國際書展，在瀏覽幾個攤位後，穿著黑色羽絨服的她安頓下來坐在前排聽一個關於香港獨立出版的談話；慢遞員官太剛好在15:30前到達，也是去聽這個談話，坐在慢遞員encounters的後面剛好能看到她的腦袋；談話結束時，慢遞員找到彼此並完成交接
Courier ENCOUNTERS leaves a healthy photo trail of her whereabouts on the day of the handover of dispatch HQL-651; starting at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, she and dispatch move in the afternoon to the annual Taipei International Book Fair, where after browsing a few booths, she settles down to listen to a talk on independent publishing in Hong Kong, sitting in the front row in a black down jacket; courier Mrs. GUAN arrives just before 15:30 and heads over to the talk, sitting in the back with a view of the back of courier ENCOUNTERS' head; after the talk ends, couriers find one another and handover successful
It's first time to participate with LIGHT LOGISTICS, but actually I've thought about the cross-border circulation of books for quite some time already. I had wanted to open a bookstore in Berlin during COVID, but discovered that in addition to being a site for the dissemination of culture, the bookstore is to an even greater degree a question of logistics itself—about books as a medium for the culture of knowledge, about how they can circulate in a physical space, crossing various borders to arrive to a certain place, and about the means in which they are able to reach certain kinds of audiences. While writing this, I've been passing through various checkpoints within Hong Kong airport, have arrived to the boarding gate, and now waiting to board the flight to Taipei. My dispatch should currently be inside my luggage, having had airport ground personnel transport it aboard the plane via some other route that I am unable to witness. I think about all the procedures, checkpoints, routes, transfer stations, waiting rooms, and inspection stations we've grown accustomed to... The movement of people is logistics, and the movement of culture is also logistics.
These questions have completely occupied my brainspace, and every time I meet others working with the medium of publications, I always ask upfront about this question of logistics: how do you all have your books shipped over? Last year I spoke with Sam from Common Imprint, and he told me that every time he travels he lugs 100kg of luggage back, and he also mentioned Display Distribute, and since then the name has come up time and time again in different settings, until now, I've also become one of their couriers.
Coming to Taipei for the International Book Fair this time, I am still asking the people I encounter about how they deal with the issue of logistics. I realised that even today, despite the flourishing amount of information around, the independent publishing world still does not have a systematic means of distribution; most still rely upon small-scale, spontaneously organised means of moving books, the sharing of resources, and mutual support. The networked linkages here include some groups from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and overseas, Hong Kong-run bookshops. The thinking and praxis may not be entirely in line with LIGHT LOGISTICS, but it's all about the connections between people: "Each one doing their bit supports all."
2025-02-04，17:33：
慢遞員encounters已經交接好緩件號HQL-651，現在在香港國際機場等待飛往台北的航班；目前已經約好下一位台北慢遞員交接：「新年快樂：）好的，那我們8號下午書展會場見：）」
Courier ENCOUNTERS has picked up dispatch HQL-651 from MAHJONG, currently at Hong Kong International Airport waiting departure to Taipei; a loose appointment on the 8th has already been made with the Taipei courier: "Happy New Year：）OK, so see you at the book fair on the afternoon of the 8th：）"
初二. Lately I’ve been obsessed with finding the cheapest mode of transit, mostly just as a rule to streamline decision making and try different ways of moving around HK. Where I’m from, one doesn’t get the chance to think about stuff like this because you can fare evade (formerly quite easily) or it’s a flat rate no matter where you go in the city or you walk out of necessity. Usually, in HK, the buses (not including the night buses) are cheaper here but there is $2 MTR fare saver “doot doot” machine in my neighborhood so the MTR made more sense.
I wanted to see what other neighborhoods besides mine were like during Lunar New Year. I was really hoping to get a little chai and snack at a Pakistani snack shop close by pick-up point before getting the package but alas they were also closed. Though the desi market was open and I managed to get a large bag of split red lentils (which as a psa are perfect for depression/lazy/frugal cooking because it has same cook time as rice so they can go in together in the rice cooker). Before the market had a donation box for Palestine but today it wasn’t on the checkout counter. Unusually there were large tour buses and tourists from mainland milling around. I couldn’t figure out why they were touring the neighborhood though. As far as I know, pick-up point neighborhood isn’t a usual tourist spot. I found the package with some help from the dispatcher. I took a ferry from Kowloon to HK island side. The next courier and I successfully met up at our rendezvous time. Then I went off to my second rendezvous which was a 15-minute walk to return a broken electric blanket I got on Carousell.
Something about the whole experience made me miss when I was a weed delivery person in another city. There’s something really satisfying about calculating your route, where’s the best place to meet for both you and the person you’re meeting, and precisely what time you’d get there. Also, because you’re leaving your journey up to chance and what works for the other person, you get to experience the unexpected, like a fish market right outside the ferry terminal.
2025-01-31，12:34：
因為她也計畫到港島買米麴，香港慢遞員麻雀也可以飛過來土瓜灣幫忙，從土瓜灣轉運站攬件後直接坐船過維多利亞港
Courier MAHJONG swoops in for the small relay between the Tokwawan Relay Centre and the scheduled handover point in North Point, perfect since she's planned to go to Hong Kong island to buy koji
2025-01-24，日頭 daytime：
一個新的聊天群開通了，方便第一步在香港攬件轉給ENCOUNTERS；這一位慢遞員其實住在歐洲，剛好回到亞洲過年；期間除了香港也會去一趟台北，方便帶書給官太
A new group chat is made then to get the books from the Display Distribute distro to courier ENCOUNTERS, who actually lives in Europe but happens to be visiting Hong Kong and Taipei during the Lunar New Year holiday and generously able to courier to Taipei and meet Mrs. GUAN
2025-01-13，12:31 UTC+02：
慢遞員官太與她在鹿特丹的取件人建立了群組通訊，準備將書慢遞回亞洲，結果交接失敗，導致HQL-651改道官太的回程路線，讓五本《離開的舉動》能夠入官太最好的朋友在荷蘭南部開的小書店
A group communiqué is established between courier Mrs. GUAN and her pick-up in Rotterdam in preparation for bringing books back to Asia; unfortunately, the handover is unsuccessful, and HQL-651 is diverted for Mrs. GUAN's return flight, allowing five copies of Acts of Departure to find their way to Mrs. GUAN's bestie's small bookshop in the south of Holland
鹿布克 Ruboek
慢遞員官太何售價人跟緩件號HQL-651合影 COURIER Mrs. GUAN and RECEIVER selfie with dispatch HQL-651
台北世界貿易中心 Taipei World Trade Center
13:59：「我在這裡」I am here
15:24：「1530-1630 在這裡」Will be here between 1530-1630
官太回覆：「我進到會場了，在這裡了～」 Mrs. GUAN replies：I’ve entered the exhibition hall, now here~
慢遞員encounters和官太合影紀錄HQL-651的台北轉接 Couriers ENCOUNTERS and Mrs. GUAN take a photo together to mark the handover of dispatch HQL-651
中山區 Zhongshan District
紅樹林站 Hongshulin Station
「北美館看展，貨物寄放在locker，下午再到台北書展」 At the Taipei Fine Arts Museum, goods are in a locker, will head to the Taipei Book Fair in the afternoon
路上 En route
北角 North Point
九龍城往北角的船上 Aboard the Kowloon City – North Point ferry
慢遞員ENCOUNTERS和麻雀跟緩件號HQL-651合影
Couriers ENCOUNTERS and MAHJONG take a selfie with dispatch HQL-651
土瓜灣 Tokwawan
HQL-651的內容 Contents of dispatch HQL-651
慢遞員麻雀找到寶寶 Courier WREN geocaches the find
「呢個可以搭車減兩蚊」 This is the $2 off yr ride
空閒路線 AVAILABLE ROUTE
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清邁 Chiangmai 和或者 AND/OR
廣州 Guangzhou
阿姆斯特丹 Amsterdam 和或者 AND/OR
鹿特丹 Rotterdam
高達 up to
1 kg
maoyi
發佈 POSTED：
2025-02-14，02:55
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空閒路線 AVAILABLE ROUTE
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深圳 Shenzhen 和或者 AND/OR
香港 Hong Kong 和或者 AND/OR
廣州 Guangzhou 和或者 AND/OR
福州 Fuzhou
台灣 Taiwan 和或者 AND/OR
倫敦 London 和或者 AND/OR
愛丁堡 Edinburgh
高達 up to
5 kg
斩风 Kayla
發佈 POSTED：
2025-02-12，16:39
「 出發點為中國的近期移動地點，到達點為接下來6個月內的海外旅行計劃」 The departure points can be several places from China in this period, and arrival points are overseas travel destinations over the next six months
2025-01-23，下午 afternoon UTC+11：
慢遞員CARRIE和收件人終於碰面；收件人報告：「非常感謝整個團隊！！！！🩷🩷🩷」
Courier CARRIE and RECEIVER finally meet and RECEIVER reports: Thank you so much team !!!! 🩷🩷🩷
2025-01-20，15:32 UTC+11：
慢遞員CARRIE已經到達布里斯本，但是她和收件人都忙著還未有機會見面；計畫這個星期後幾天交收
Courier CARRIE has already arrived to Brisbane, but with busy schedules, she and RECEIVER haven’t managed to find a time yet; the two plan to try for a final handover later in the week
2024-12-30，13:54 UTC+11：
僅三小時後，慢遞員 Penguin 在Flinders Street站的同一地點與新慢遞員CARRIE會合；CARRIE跟隨小明發的照片線索走到樓梯前方，數秒後回報：「收到包裹」；接力成功，緩件號HQL-647等待轉運
Only three hours later, courier Penguin is able to meet up with new courier CARRIE at the same location of Flinders Street station; CARRIE follows Penguin's photo clue and walks to the front of the stairs, reporting back seconds later, "package acquired"; HQL-647 awaiting relay
2024-12-30，12:37 UTC+11：
在她們預定會面之前，新慢遞員Saro.RARO向慢遞員小明報告：「我就在馬路對面廣場的Time Out咖啡廳，妳差不多到了跟我說一聲我可以過去」；她耐心地等待著，但是直到12:37也沒有收到小明的回覆，最後：「非常抱歉，我睡過頭了。我十分鐘後可以到，妳還在嗎？或者我可以去找你」；但這時Saro.RARO已經離開往墨爾本去了；幸好人脈很廣的收件人馬上報告：「沒關係，我有另一個朋友會在13號從墨爾本飛到布里斯本，所以我們還有多一點時間來安排」；展銷場收件人棒棒的！
Before their scheduled meeting, new courier Saro.RARO reports to courier Penguin that "I am just across the road at Time Out cafe in the square. Let me know when you are close by and I’ll round it we can meet here if you are nearby"; she waits patiently, but there is no reply from Penguin until 12:37: "I’m so so sorry I overslept. I could be there in 10 are you still around? Or i could go find you"; but Saro.RARO is already off to Melbourne by this time, though thankfully well-connected RECEIVER reports immediately, "It’s ok, I have another friend that will be flying from Melbourne to Brisbane on the 13th, so we will have a bit more time to organise that"; hurrah for a kind and understanding and well-connected Display Distribute RECEIVER!
2024-12-29，16:30 UTC+11：
小明和收件人開通了小群聊，ig故事即刻呼喚慢遞員，幾分鐘後，收件人的朋友Saro.RARO攬件，他將在1號從墨爾本飛往布里斯本；見面交接很快就安排在了明天中午的Flinders Street站
A group chat is established between Penguin and RECEIVER, which immediately results in an Instagram story call for a courier and, minutes later, a pick-up by RECEIVER's friend Saro.RARO, who will be flying to Brisbane from Melbourne on the 1st; a meet-up is quickly arranged for noon the next day at Flinders Street station
2024-12-27，16:54 UTC+11：
展銷場慢遞員與小明和收件人開通聊天室，小明報告：「嗨 我回墨爾本啦 🙂」
Group chat established between Display Distribute LOGISTICIANs, courier Penguin and RECEIVER; Penguin reports: Hii I’m back in Melbourne 🙂
2024-12-22，23:01：
緩件號HQL-647路線有變化，小明更新：「又跑去香港找朋友玩了……还有四天回去澳洲」
Dispatch HQL-647 route change; Penguin updates: I've gone to Hong Kong again to visit friends... heading back to Australia in four days
2024-11-24，下午 afternoon 18:00：
小明更新：「在佛山跟朋友吃貝類火鍋，等飯的時候讀完了何子分享的“小說的手提包理論”，真是太喜歡了⋯⋯很直覺地想到，打架的身體和作為容器的身體是不太兼容的，要打架，攜帶/容納的東西就都變成最好丟掉的「累贅」，而要作為容器，打架就比較會有不方便和顧慮。這麼想的話，好像當衝突必須發生時，純粹打架的身體更有優勢，但我又想到指環王里Sam對Frodo說的那句話：I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you」
I finished reading “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” shared with me by PORTABLE while waiting for a shellfish hotpot with friends in Foshan, it's so good... Intuitively, I had the thought that the fighting body and the body as container are not exactly compatible. Within struggle, the things that you carry and take in become the burdens best to get rid of. Struggle brings about inconvenient worries, how do you carry those? When conflict is inevitable, the fighting body takes precedence. But then I think of what Sam said to Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
2024-11-21，下午 afternoon：
看了HQL-646那麼輕，慢遞員小明很慷慨地說她回墨爾本沒有很多東西要帶可以多帶一點；雖然展銷場目前沒有目的地墨爾本的訂單——HQL-646是要往悉尼去然後HQL-647要去更遠的布里斯班——但至少越發靠近在澳大利亞中部的目的地；她將從長洲島出發去佛山拜訪朋友，再去杭州待些時日；慢遞員禾子給小明發去厄休拉·勒古恩（le GUIN）的《小說的手提包理論》，恰如其分的為企鵝送行
After seeing lightweight dispatch HQL-646, Penguin generously offers to take on one more dispatch, saying she won't have much to bring back with her to Melbourne; while there are currently no Melbourne-bound orders, HQL-646 bound for somewhere near Sydney, and HQL-647, needing to go even further north close to Brisbane, can slowly inch their way closer; Penguin sets off from Changzhou Island for Foshan, where she will visit a friend before going to Hangzhou for a few weeks; courier PORTABLE sends 'Guin off with an apropos reading of "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" by Ursula le GUIN
2024-11-19，大概 around 17:00：
小明到廣州會住在長洲島一位她的二度朋友家；世界再次縮水，禾子和小明發現，小明聯絡的沙發借住正是長洲島轉運站的房管員；這讓交接易如反掌
Penguin arrives to Guangzhou and will stay on Changzhou Island at a friend of a friend's place; the world shrinks again, and PORTABLE and Penguin find out that Penguin has contacted the housemaster of the Changzhou Island Relay Centre for couchsurfing; this relay will be super easy
2024-11-12，22:20：
新任慢遞員小明自從為趕上20號獨立樂隊小機場二十週年紀念演出而途徑香港幾天，並註冊運送慢遞，但由於這幾天颱風帶雨，在廣州交接緩件HQL-646變成更容易的安排，正恰小明也會在回去杭州的家的前日天，在廣州待一待；慢遞物流禾子與頻繁往返港廣線上接力，但她在線路中撞到了她的頭
New courier Penguin signs up to carry a dispatch since she's passing through Hong Kong for a few days to catch the 20th anniversary show of Hong Kong indie band My Little Airport, but since it's rainy and typhoony these days, it turns out to be easier to arrange a pick-up of dispatch HQL-646 from Guangzhou instead, where Penguin will hang out for a few days before going back to her hometown in Hangzhou; LIGHT LOGISTICIAN PORTABLE picks up the relay between Hong Kong and Guangzhou on her frequent route, but she hits her head along the way
阿爾格斯特 Algester
社交媒體 Social Media
收件人的慢遞員招募 RECEIVER’s call for couriers
長洲島轉運站 Changzhou Island Relay Centre
給HQL-646點個愛心 Hearts out to dispatch HQL-646
長洲島轉運站管理員貓咪檢查好兩件慢遞交接好 The Changzhou Island Relay Centre kitty manager oversees sending off two dispatches
香港路上 En Route Hong Kong
慢遞員何子路上受傷 While on the run, COURIER PORTABLE incurs a bit of collateral damage
出發前處理一下銀行的問題和補充一點咖啡因 Taking care of money and refueling with free coffee at the bank before departure
上巴士前吃飽港式的重慶粉 Cheap Chongqing noodles before the journey
推車上的各種要慢遞的物品，包括緩件號HQL-646和HQL-647還有一放台磁帶的收音機 Among dispatches and other items to carry, an old boombox
HQL-646和647在這裡面 Dispatches HQL-646 and HQL-647 in here
2025-01-21，18:32 UTC+07：
慢遞員吳小姐很神秘地從布吉島經由不同的地方，但可靠的，大概一週後，緩件號HQL-638到收件人手里，派送成功
COURIER Ms. WU makes a mysterious journey passing through unknown locale between Phuket and Bangkok, but still reliable, dispatch HQL-638 safely reaches RECEIVER one week later; delivery successful
2025-01-13，15:55 UTC+07：
慢遞員吳小姐更新：「在路上，有點堵車，但是5點前肯定能到」
COURIER Ms. WU UPDATE：On my way now. The traffic is a bit heavy. But gonna arrive before 5 pm for sure
2025-01-09，23:43 UTC+08：
慢遞員吳小姐更新：「是的，我星期六到布吉島，待到下週二；不會馬上到曼谷，但我確保收件人很快可以收到」
COURIER Ms. WU UPDATE：yes, I will be Phuket on Saturday and leave next Tuesday; not going to Bangkok immediately, but I’ll make sure it gets to RECEIVER soon
2025-01-07，06:14 UTC+07：
收件人更新：「找到了一個朋友，大概一個禮拜後要去布吉島，可以讓他跟你的慢遞員聯絡取書嗎？」
RECEIVER UPDATE： Found a friend who’ll be traveling to Phuket in around a week, can I connect them to your courier to grab the book?
2024-11-12，10:49 UTC+07：
收件人來更新他最近的旅行計畫，要去布吉島附近的寇立（Khao Lak）潛水，問是否有可能更接近他訂的書；可惜的是，普吉島市距離機場以南約一小時車程，而他搭乘的潛水船從以北約一小時車程的地方出發；不巧，RISE & GRIND hana的朋友剛前一天剛去了寇立，所以很遺憾地錯過了接力；收件人說：「正如他們所說，需要一個村莊」
RECEIVER gets in touch with an update of upcoming travel plans to Khao Lak, near Phuket, inquiring about any possibility to come closer to his book; unfortunately, however, Phuket city is around an hour south of the airport and the dive boat he's taking leaves from around an hour north; courier RISE & GRIND hana's friends have just left for Khao Lak the previous day, so sadly, relay missed; RECEIVER says, "Takes a village, as they say"
2024-10-11，13:24 UTC+07：
慢遞員魚鰭i到了hana的RISE & GRIND，但遺憾沒碰見外出有事的hana；緩件HQL-638交給了店員，現在等待去曼谷的未知轉運
COURIER YU kei arrives to hana's RISE & GRIND but unfortunately misses hana, who is out running errands; dispatch HQL-638 dropped off with staff, now waiting unknown relay to Bangkok
2024-10-09，11:02 UTC+07：
慢遞員魚鰭說：「我們到啦！！普吉島！我今天能過去嗎？」，但是普吉島轉運中心慢遞員RISE & GRIND hana告訴魚鰭：「我們今天因為普吉島素食節而快要關門，也叫Jae Festival或九皇齋——在泰國長達九天的道教節日。你能明天在來投遞嗎？今天普吉島的交通一定堵死，一點不推薦今天過來這邊」，等會有1萬人將路過普吉島老城，魚鰭決定改為週五去拜訪hana的café，在下一個整夜的遊行慶祝來臨前
COURIER YU kei says, "We’re here!! Phuket! Can I come over today?", but Phuket Relay Centre courier RISE & GRIND hana informs YU kei: "We're gonna close soon today due to the the Phuket Vegetarian Festival, also known as the Jae/Jay Festival, or the Nine Emperor Gods Festival—a nine-day Taoist festival held in Thailand. Can you drop by tomorrow instead? The traffic in Phuket down is dead today not recommend coming in"; 10k people passing through Phuket old town later, YU kei decides to visit hana's café on Friday instead, before the next all-night-long festival parade
2024-10-03，evening：
慢遞員paperbridgeee和魚鰭晚飯，算作在她去普吉島潛水和去日本一年長打工度假前的餞行飯；交接成功，啟程安排在十月9號早晨
COURIER paperbridgeee's dinner is with YU kei, a going away dinner of sorts before her upcoming diving trip in Phuket and before she goes away to Japan for a year on working holiday; handover successful, departure scheduled for the morning of 9 October
2024-10-03，16:23：
又一次試圖讓易拎去碰面paperbridgeee，這次是19:15在佐敦地鐵站裡Carousell式交易，因為paperbridgeee從辦公室趕路去觀塘恰晚飯；paperbridgeee有些遲，易拎在被人注目中給包裹拍照：一個怨愤小孩瘫坐在地来抵抗他媽媽伸出來牵拽他的手，而幾乎所有其它人伸出的手都只為著牽住他們的手機，然而為什麼這些臉都是唯一的，我們也學會了去分辨每一個？然後paperbridgeee從易拎身後走來，她們簡短聊了聊慢遞遞送史和慢遞員魚鰭即將開始的激動遠行
Another attempt is made for PORTABLE and paperbridgeee to meet, this time Carousell-style inside the Jordan MTR station at 19:15 while paperbridgeee is on her way from the office to Kowloon Bay for a dinner; paperbridgeee is a bit late, and PORTABLE takes a dispatch photo while people-watching: a small, feisty child hangs from his mother's hand in resistance, most everyone holds a hand out to support only their mobile phone, and everyone looks the same, though somehow all these faces are unique, and we've learned to distinguish each one. Then paperbridgeee slides in from behind PORTABLE, and they chat for a short while about their history of couriering exchanges along with COURIER YU kei's exciting upcoming journey
2024-10-02，晚上 evening：
慢遞員易拎帶著緩件包裹HQL-638去港島想著她能夠碰面慢遞員paperbridgeee來個交接，但時空用可笑的方式飛逝如同過山車，易拎做完朋友活兒從北角返回土瓜灣轉運站，HQL-638還在她包裡
COURIER PORTABLE brings dispatch HQL-638 to Hong Kong island thinking that she should be able to meet up with COURIER paperbridgeee for a handover, but time and space rollercoaster in funny ways and PORTABLE returns from a friend's gig in North Point to the Tokwawan Relay Centre with HQL-638 still in her pocket
社交媒體 Social Media
作者的反饋 Feedback from the author
挽叻縣 Bang Rak
「感謝@light.logistics慢遞和慢遞員Jess給我帶過來」
「兩個小朋友把墩子插回敦子上邊哼”噔噔噔噔，噔噔！“的升旗音樂」
「這個在街巷里有用，扔到深山老林就是垃圾啦！」「那還有一整群人都被忽視，這墩子又算什麼！」
老城區 Old Town
「我們在等著出發 😴😴」 We’re waiting for the departures 😴😴
「今天布吉島老城區遊行大概一萬人」 The parade this morning around 10k people in Phuket town
「休息了一下，明天過去！！！」 After taking a break, we are coming tomorrow!!!
送到布吉島Rise & Grind Delivered to Rise & Grind
路途中 En route
「後勤」慢遞的泰語介紹 Thai explanation of LIGHT LOGISTICS couriering
緩件上面有個貼紙同九龍灣見面點嘅牌有啲似，可惜無個貼紙同呢個牌嘅合照 There is a sticker on the dispatch that looks like this sign that we saw at the Kowloon Bay handover location, too bad we didn’t take a photo of them together
慢遞員paperbridgeee成功交給魚鰭 COURIERpaperbridgeee successfully hands off to YU kei
同場加映：充滿國慶味道嘅火雞 🤪 A very nationalistic lighter to light up National Day spirit 🤪
「我們在等著出發 😴😴」 We’re waiting for the departures 😴😴
佐敦 Jordan
等待取件 HQL-638 waiting for pick-up
中年婦女跨欄杆數錢 Middle-aged women counting wads of cash across the paid-area barrier
好動小孩慢化地鐵行走的速度 A feisty child slows down MTR commuting flow
2025-01-02，19:26 UTC-05：
Bungee Space更新：「新年快樂！我們有兩本書在Bungee保管好等人取，下面有消息跟我說一下也祝2025年多多❤️」
Bungee Space UPDATE："HAPPY NEEEEWW YEAR! We have two books keeping at Bungee for someone to pick up, keep me updated what's next and much much ❤️ in 2025"
2024-12-30，16:48 UTC-05：
慢遞員JAIME更新：「留了在bungee space隔壁的soho deli，他們放假後來取」
COURIER JAIME UPDATE："dropped off at soho deli next to bungee space for them to pick up after the holidays
2024-12-28，10:19 UTC-05：
慢遞員JAIME更新：「我兩天前已經去了bungee轉運中心哈哈，但是好像慢遞員不在，我當天也沒有把書帶出來哈哈只是去晚飯的時候路過了」
COURIER JAIME UPDATE："i went to bungee two days ago haha but i don't think the relay person was there, i didn't bring the book that day haha; just passed by on the way to dinner
2024-12-23，10:40 UTC-05：
慢遞員JAIME小姐到達紐約：「零下11度呢LOL」
Courier Ms. JAIME arrives in New York, "It's -11 degrees LOL"
2024-12-22，18:00：
慢遞員取好了換件號HQL-649後第二天立刻從香港國際機場出發；攬件的時候聊了一下座飛機的各種習慣，想起了一篇關於「rawdogging」的座飛機趨勢，為了準備這次長途航班重新讀了一遍
COURIER JAIME departs from Hong Kong International Airport after having picked up dispatch HQL-649 just the previous day; after a conversation about plane rides, she is reminded an old article about the phenomenon of rawdogging in preparation for her flight
雪梨 Sydney 經由 VIA
廣州 Guangzhou +
佛山 Foshan +
杭州 Hangzhou +
香港 Hong Kong +
墨爾本 Melbourne
訂單 ORDER
WC-8647
每種一本
1 copy each
小明 Penguin +
何子 PORTABLE
慢遞招募發布
ROUTE REQUESTED：
2024-05-20，12:21
2024-12-27，16:54 UTC+11：
慢遞員小明更新：「你好！我回墨爾本了 🙂」
COURIER Penguin UPDATE：Hii I’m back in Melbourne 🙂
2024-12-22，23:01：
緩件號HQL-647路線有變化，小明更新：「又跑去香港找朋友玩了……还有四天回去澳洲」
Dispatch HQL-647 route change; Penguin updates: I've gone to Hong Kong again to visit friends... heading back to Australia in four days
2024-11-24，下午 afternoon 18:00：
小明更新：「在佛山跟朋友吃貝類火鍋，等飯的時候讀完了何子分享的“小說的手提包理論”，真是太喜歡了⋯⋯很直覺地想到，打架的身體和作為容器的身體是不太兼容的，要打架，攜帶/容納的東西就都變成最好丟掉的「累贅」，而要作為容器，打架就比較會有不方便和顧慮。這麼想的話，好像當衝突必須發生時，純粹打架的身體更有優勢，但我又想到指環王里Sam對Frodo說的那句話：I can’t carry it for you, but I can carry you」
I finished reading “The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction” shared with me by PORTABLE while waiting for a shellfish hotpot with friends in Foshan, it's so good... Intuitively, I had the thought that the fighting body and the body as container are not exactly compatible. Within struggle, the things that you carry and take in become the burdens best to get rid of. Struggle brings about inconvenient worries, how do you carry those? When conflict is inevitable, the fighting body takes precedence. But then I think of what Sam said to Frodo in The Lord of the Rings: I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you.
2024-11-21，下午 afternoon：
現在，慢遞員企鵝存帶著兩份都不是去到墨爾本的緩件，但至少越發靠近在澳大利亞中部的目的地；她將從長洲島出發去佛山拜訪朋友，再去杭州待些時日；慢遞員易拎發去厄休拉·勒古恩的《小說的手提包理論》，恰如其分的為企鵝送行
Now generously holding on to two dispatches, both not destined for Melbourne but at least getting closer to their central Australian destinations, courier sets off from Changzhou Island for Foshan, where she will visit a friend before going to Hangzhou for a few weeks; courier PORTABLE sends 'Guin off with an apropos reading of "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" by Ursula le GUIN
2024-11-19，大概 around 17:00：
企鵝到廣州會住在長洲島一位她的二度朋友家；世界再次縮水，易拎和企鵝發現，企鵝聯絡的沙發借住正是長洲島轉運站的房管員；這讓交接易如反掌
Penguin arrives to Guangzhou and will stay on Changzhou Island at a friend of a friend's place; the world shrinks again, and PORTABLE and Penguin find out that Penguin has contacted the housemaster of the Changzhou Island Relay Centre for couchsurfing; this relay will be super easy
2024-11-12，22:20：
新任慢遞員企鵝自從為趕上20號獨立樂隊小機場二十週年紀念演出而途徑香港幾天，並註冊運送慢遞，但由於這幾天颱風帶雨，在廣州交接緩件HQL-646變成更容易的安排，正恰企鵝也會在回去杭州的家的前日天，在廣州待一待；慢遞物流易拎與頻繁往返港廣線上接力，但她在線路中撞到了她的頭
New courier Penguin signs up to carry a dispatch since she's passing through Hong Kong for a few days to catch the 20th anniversary show of Hong Kong indie band My Little Airport, but since it's rainy and typhoony these days, it turns out to be easier to arrange a pick-up of dispatch HQL-646 from Guangzhou instead, where Penguin will hang out for a few days before going back to her hometown in Hangzhou; LIGHT LOGISTICIAN PORTABLE picks up the relay between Hong Kong and Guangzhou on her frequent route, but she hits her head along the way
長洲島轉運站 Changzhou Island Relay Centre
給HQL-646點個愛心 Hearts out to dispatch HQL-646
長洲島轉運站管理員貓咪檢查好兩件慢遞交接好 The Changzhou Island Relay Centre kitty manager oversees sending off two dispatches
香港路上 En Route Hong Kong
慢遞員何子路上受傷 While on the run, COURIER PORTABLE incurs a bit of collateral damage
出發前處理一下銀行的問題和補充一點咖啡因 Taking care of money and refueling with free coffee at the bank before departure
上巴士前吃飽港式的重慶粉 Cheap Chongqing noodles before the journey
推車上的各種要慢遞的物品，包括緩件號HQL-646和HQL-647還有一放台磁帶的收音機 Among dispatches and other items to carry, an old boombox
HQL-646和647在這裡面 Dispatches HQL-646 and HQL-647 in here
娃娃菜 Baby Cabbage +
越敏 Yuemin +
子野人驚詫 Surprised Savage + 金依依的朋友 JIN Yiyi‘s FRIEND + 金依依 JIN Yiyi
慢遞招募發布
ROUTE REQUESTED：
2019-05-09，01:51
2024-12-27，12:34：
慢遞員越敏報告：「非常抱歉這麼晚才聯繫你們，其實中間我用過名字招租等方式尋找過去嘉興的朋友，但一直沒有順利偶遇。近期參加活動終於找到一位朋友！剛剛已經見到新的慢遞員了，她家就在嘉興，這周會將慢遞帶回嘉興。我可以把她拉進群里嘛？」
COURIER Yuemin UPDATE：I'm so sorry to get in touch with you all so late; all this time I've actually been using my WeChat handle to look for people going to Jiaxing but never had any luck; recently I attended an event and finally met someone! I just saw her and gave her the dispatch, she's from Jiaxing and can bring it back; shall I pull her into this chat group?
2024-05-20，11:07：
慢遞員越敏報告：「我沒有忘記這件事情！但一直想期待一個有趣的方法把它送過來。因為我在教學生，所以每學期學生放假回家的時候我會問一下。。上次問沒有找到。但這陣子又快要放假了。想著是不是又可以問一下」。收件人回覆：「我已經從大學生變成社畜好幾年了，哈哈；這個項目還在堅持真的很了不起；沒關係我不著急的！慢慢來就好」
COURIER Yuemin UPDATE：I haven't forgotten about this! But I've been really hoping to find a fun way to have the dispatch delivered; because I teach, every semester there are students who head back to their hometowns and I'll ask... last semester I didn't find anyone, but soon another semester will finish and I'll ask again. RECEIVER replies, "I've already graduated from uni and entered the social zoo a few years, haha; it's really amazing this project has been going on for so long, but doesn't matter, not in a rush, just taking it easy is fine"
2024-01-10，15:29：
兩個月後，老師越敏到廣州看到緩件號HQL-550A掛著耐心等待人來交接；慢遞員子野人驚詫報告：「緩件號HQL-558A已經由在上海教書的老師越敏認領，後天可以到達上海；她會繼續尋找去嘉興的朋友；歡迎她的參與」
Two months later, educator Yuemin visits Guangzhou and sees dispatch HQL-550A waiting patiently for someone to pick it up; COURIER Surprised Savage reports, "Dispatch HQL-558A has already been picked up by Shanghai-based educator Yuemin, she'll arrive back in Shanghai the day after tomorrow; she'll continue looking for friends headed towards Jiaxing; we welcome her participation"
2023-11-18，11:55：
慢遞員野人驚詫和BuBu的“馮火”會面在一所中學附近的編輯部；15份“馮火”交付給野人驚詫，其中一些由展銷場分銷，另一些歸件於緩件HQL-558A；野人驚詫帶著一切回到長洲島轉運站等待慢遞員傳遞去嘉興
Courier Surprised Savage and Bubu from Fong Fo meet in front of a middle school near the editorial bureau; 15 copies of Fong Fo are handed over to Surprised Savage, a few of which are separated out for the Display Distribute distro and a few to be included in dispatch HQL-558A; Surprised Savage brings everything back to the Changzhou Island relay centre to await a courier headed for Jiaxing
2023-11-16，21:39：
慢遞員員野人驚詫最後安排了在廣州市二宮與“馮火”編輯取件；預約時間在18號上午十一點半，那時“馮火”編輯BuBu剛回城裡
Courier Surprised Savage comes in to at least arrange the pick-up from the Fong Fo editorial bureau in the Second Workers' Cultural Palace area of Guangzhou; an appointment is made for the 18th around 11:30 am, when Fong Fo's Bubu has just gotten back in to town
2023-11-14，21:10：
一十分複雜的物流安排在微信上被丟到一起，涉及著“馮火”和慢遞後勤大雨巷+易拎兩家出版單位人員，慢遞員野人驚詫和金依依；取件的旅程如此複雜也許因為所有安排都過於倉促，試圖伴隨慢遞員金小姐在中國急旋般的巡演，也許遞送可以等待另一個時機
A very complicated logistical arrangement is thrown together on WeChat involving two of the publishing bureau of Fong Fo, LOGISTICIANS lß + PORTABLE, and couriers Surprised Savage and JIN Yiyi; the pick-up and travel are so complicated to arrange that maybe it's all too rushed, and with courier Ms. JIN on a whirlwind concert tour of China, perhaps couriering can wait for other opportunities
微信 WeChat
「當時一直頂著這個名號在找人。不知道這個可不可以算經歷放在網頁里…算的話，我可以整理很多朋友看見名字的交談記錄上傳保存！」 I’d been using this handle to look for people; not sure if it would count for the log, but if so, I can collect all the chats from people about this!
長洲島 Changzhou Island
海珠區 Haizhu District
《馮火》準備好出發啦 Fong Fo ready for departure
第一個交接點 First handover point
空閒路線 AVAILABLE ROUTE
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廣州 Guangzhou
上海 Shanghai
高達 up to
5 kg
贺凯 Hacker
發佈 POSTED：
2024-12-26，10:50
「本人年前（具體尚不知道哪天暫定1月25日前）將返回上海；可以攜帶5kg及以上的貨物。（我離長洲島非常近 如果轉運點很近再好不過了）注意到你們路線都是直達；請問是否有可能發展多人路線，all for one；我想可能也會好玩。不過工作量和不可控因素會大許多，我想。」 I'll be going back to Shanghai before the Lunar New Year holiday (not exactly sure which day but before 25 January), able to carry 5 kg or more (I am located in Guangzhou very close to Changzhou Island, if the handover can happen nearby that would be perfect); I notice that your routes are mostly direct, wanted to ask if it's possible to branch out a few more multi-destination routes, all for one; that seems even more fun, though I know it would increase the workload and more uncontrollable circumstances.
倫敦 London 經由 VIA
蘇黎世 Zürich +
巴塞羅那 Barcelona +
阿姆斯特丹 Amsterdam
運輸時間
DELIVERY TIME：
310天，35分鐘
310 days，35 minutes
訂單 ORDER
WC-8311
1 本 copy
Fanja BOUTS +
易拎 PORTABLE
到達
COMPLETED：
2024-12-22，12:32 UTC+0
慢遞招募發布
ROUTE REQUESTED：
2024-02-16，19:57
2024-12-22，12:32 UTC+0：
慢遞員BOUTS恰在聖誕假前護送緩件HQL-601的最終一程，當時收件人在忙，她就把加上小便條的包裹落件給了一位友善的接待
Courier BOUTS makes it to dispatch HQL-601's final delivery destination just before the Christmas holiday, and while RECEIVER is not available, she drops it off with a small post-it note to a friendly receptionist
2024-12-20，11:25 UTC+0：
慢遞員BOUTS小姐更新：「你好！我終於可以去英國了，很樂意把書慢遞到目的地，要我直接發一封郵件給收件人嗎？我剛到達，也是我想到的第一件事；非常抱歉拖了那麼久，真的沒想到會那麼久才能再來英國」
COURIER Ms. BOUTS UPDATE：Hello!! I have finally managed to get to the UK, and I would love to bring it to the address, shall I send the person an email again? I have just arrived, it’s the first thing I thought about; I am extremely sorry it took so long, I never expected I couldn’t come to the UK for this amount of time
2024-09-30，11:04 UTC+01：
慢遞員BOUTS小姐更新：「我會給收件人再發一次郵件，因為一個親戚生病了，我就決定留在家裡，最後倫敦沒去成，好可惜。我會跟她講我現在沒在倫敦，真的很抱歉，我也覺得很遺憾，要看一下下次什麼時候能去，真是個惡夢 😅」
COURIER Ms. BOUTS UPDATE：I will send RECEIVER a mail again, because I couldn't go to London in the end as a family member got sick and I decided to stay home, very unfortunate. I will let her know that I'm not in London now in the end, I'm so sorry about this I'm really sad about it myself, now looking when I can go instead, god what a nightmare 😅
2024-08-16，17:42 UTC+01：
慢遞員BOUTS小姐更新：「哦，不，我在瑞士，幾乎沒有互聯網，FORD 先生也不在；那裡超級可愛，我看見了一些很棒的奶牛和很多山羊（我最喜歡的），FORD先生現在回來了，但他住得離King's Cross很遠，還有其他地方可以去嗎？也許接下來的幾天？如果我自己在那裡，我可以更容易地做到這一點，但我只有九月在，我當然可以帶著它，但也許有點晚了？很抱歉，我一直都沒有上網。我會在 9 月的最後一周，從 23 號開始！否則，在Peckham周圍會是一個可能嗎？」
COURIER Ms. BOUTS UPDATE：Oh no I was in Switzerland with hardly any internet, and Mr. FORD was out of reach, too; It was super lovely, I saw some great cows and a lot of goats (my favourite) Mr. FORD is back now but he lives quite far from King's Cross, is there another spot to go to? In the next few days perhaps? If I was there myself I could do it more easily but I'm there in September only, I could of course bring it then but maybe that is a bit late? I’m sorry again for this non-communication I’ve been completely in no internet zones. I would be there the last week of September, from the 23rd on! Otherwise, Would around Peckham be a possibility maybe?
2024-06-19，00:27 UTC+02：
慢遞員BOUTS小姐更新：「我一回到阿姆斯特丹就生病了，所以一直沒怎麼聯繫，我一直想給你發個信息！很抱歉這麼晚才回復。書在倫敦，但慢遞員FORD先生出差了一周，他一回來就會聯繫收件人 ：）他走之前沒來得及聯繫；我會確保他回來後立即聯繫收件人，我們本想在他走之前聯繫上，但他沒趕上；我現在去問他具體哪天回倫敦」
COURER Ms. BOUTS UPDATE：I got sick the moment I got back to Amsterdam so I have been a little off the radar, I've been meaning to send you a message! Sorry for the late response. So the book is in London, but courier Mr. FORD is away for one week on a residency, but he will get in contact with the owner of the book the minute he returns ：）He didn't get the chance to do it before he left; I will make sure that he will do that immediately when he gets back to town, we wanted to make it happen before he had to leave but he didn't manage; I'm going to ask him now which date he will be back in London exactly
2024-06-08，07:59 UTC+02：
與同事們在城市裡度過了一個深夜之後，BOUTS小姐起身搭乘早上的火車返回阿姆斯特丹，正好趕上FORD先生的生日，並為他準備了一份來自西班牙的可愛餅乾紀念品；FORD先生將於下週二啓程前往倫敦，屆時他將能夠運送緩件HQL-601
After a late night in the city with colleagues, Ms. BOUTS gets up for a morning train back to Amsterdam, to arrive just in time to celebrate Mr. FORD's birthday with a cute, edible souvenir from Spain; Mr. FORD will be departing for London the following Tuesday and should be able to transport dispatch HQL-601
2024-06-05，下午 afternoon UTC+02：
BOUTS小姐從阿姆斯特丹來到巴塞羅那，將與慢遞員易拎小姐在同一個房子里住上幾天；她們在一起的短暫時光包括希臘沙拉、廉價白葡萄酒，以及關於電子垃圾、大型展覽問題和倫敦與阿姆斯特丹之間生活的討論；後者導致雙方同意將緩件HQL-601移交給她或她的男朋友FORD先生，由他們將其帶到英國
Ms. BOUTS comes to Barcelona from Amsterdam and will stay a few days in the same flat as courier Ms. PORTABLE; their temporary time together includes Greek salad, cheap white wine, and discussions about e-waste, the problems of large-scale exhibitions, and life between London and Amsterdam; the latter leads to an agreed handover of HQL-601 for her or her partner Mr. FORD to bring to the UK
2024-05-22，UTC+02：
西班牙總統，佩德羅·桑切斯，簽署了部長協議來推進承認巴勒斯坦國：「這是一個歷史性的唯一客觀公正的決定：為幫助促使以色列和巴勒斯坦間的和平。承認巴勒斯坦國不僅是一個符合巴勒斯坦人民合法訴求的歷史正義問題，也是一種緊迫的必須，如果我們所有人都想取得和平。」
The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro SÁNCHEZ, confirms that the Council of Ministers have approved the recognition of the State of Palestine: This is a historic decision with a single objective: to help Israelis and Palestinians reach peace. Recognition of the State of Palestine is not only a matter of historical justice to the legitimate aspirations of the people of Palestine. It is also an urgent necessity if we are all to achieve peace.
2024-05-21，11:33 UTC+02：
慢遞員易拎小姐與緩件HQL-601， HQL-602，HQL-603，和行李裡的 HQL-604落地；HQL-606在她肩上的背包中的一個小紙盒裡；一些延誤後，她到了她將在接下來待三週的公寓，HQL-601 等待轉運至倫敦
Courier Ms. PORTABLE arrives with dispatches HQL-601, HQL-602, HQL-603, and HQL-604 in her luggage; HQL-606 is inside a small cardboard box which is inside a backpack which is on her shoulder; after a bit of delay, she arrives at the flat where she will stay for the next three weeks, HQL-601 awaiting relay to London
2024-05-20，between 23:50 UTC+08 and 2024-05-21 08:50 UTC +02：
在空中，何易拎小姐寫了9封電郵，其3靠蘇黎世的歪富愛發送，剩下則在到達巴塞羅那後送出；她還觀影了「美國小說」，一個作家諷刺玩笑般，在當前後-黑命攸關時代給白人的需好來寫作某種”黑“故事；當然書成為暢銷，他不能拒絕，因為他需要錢來幫助照顧他受苦於阿滋海默症的媽媽；期間何小姐並不真的認為這電影很好看，但她感激裡面許多聰明有理的對話 ——「我很感激他們在嘗試做」；她經常思考「如何解決」的問題，特別鑒於近來在她生活中出現的大量誤解和交流的小事故；當電影主角用手機跟他的出版社談話，試圖在一個後種族世界解決當代美國黑人生活的問題時，一個白人搶到他前面，攔走了他的出租車；易拎小姐看片時，她點了份牛肉米飯並被乘務員告知需要等待；她沒收到她的塑料餐盤（和意麵一起）直到其它人都吃完飛機餐並被收走他們的餐盤；這電影在繼續
While in air, Ms. PORTABLE writes nine e-mails, three of which are sent with wi-fi in Zürich, and the rest to be sent after arrival in Barcelona; she also watches one film called American Fiction, which is about an author who, as a sarcastic joke, writes the kind of 'black' story that white people need to consume in the current post-Black Lives Matter era; of course, the book becomes a hit, and he cannot say no because he needs the money to help take care of his Alzheimer's-stricken mother; while Ms. PORTABLE does not actually think the film is excellent overall, she appreciates many of the clever and en pointe dialogues——"i appreciate what they were trying to do"; she thinks often about the question of 'how to address', especially in light of the great deal of misunderstandings and mishaps of communication that have been occurring in her life lately; as the protagonist of the film talks on his mobile phone to his publisher, trying to address contemporary Black American life in a post-racist world, a white man walks in front of him and takes his cab; as Ms. PORTABLE watches the film, she orders the meal of beef with rice and is told by the flight attendant to wait; she does not receive her plastic tray (with pasta) until after everyone else has already finished eating and their trays have been cleared; the movie continues
2024-05-20，23:50：
慢遞員何易拎小姐從香港出發飛往巴塞羅那，旅程15個小時的瑞士航空及55分鐘的蘇黎世逗留；值機時，她幾乎被迫發現這趟飛行不再有靠窗或走道的座位，她的漫長飛行必須被擠壓在其它乘客中間；然而，登機至那被分配的32排座，在過道的男人詢問是否可以和他或那坐臨窗的女人交換座位，因為他們是一起的；何小姐超級開心地選了窗邊，傾斜著她的頭以對抗冷颼颼的強化塑料窗戶，此時飛機起飛
Courier Ms. PORTABLE departs from Hong Kong on 15-hour SwissAir journey to Barcelona with a 55-minute layover in Zürich; upon check-in, she was quite downtrodden to discover that there were no more window or aisle seats available, and she would have to be squeezed between other passengers for the long flight; however, upon arriving at her assigned row 32, the man in the aisle asks if it would be possible to change seats with either himself or the woman seated next to the window, because they are travelling together; Ms. PORTABLE is so happy and chooses the window seat, leaning her head against the chilly, reinforced plastic window as the plane takes off
河岸街 Strand
恩典區 Gràcia
緩件號HQL-601放好BOUTS小姐的手袋裡面準備出發 Dispatch HQL-601 in courier Ms. BOUTS’ handbag
2024-12-19，06:22 UTC-05：
邦基斯貝司更新：「快速地更新：J剛拿到他的那一本了——好興奮！」
BUNGEE SPACE UPDATE：Quick update: J picked up his copy—super excited about it!
2024-09-14，23:11 UTC-04：
收件人更新：「精彩！我會過去看一下的，剛回到紐約」
RECEIVER UPDATE：Amazing I’ll go check; I just got back to NYC
2024-07-12，15:06 UTC-04：
慢遞員CHARIS終於抵達她的送貨目的地，位於下東區的 Bungee Space，但不幸的是收件人S今天不在；取而代之的是，她與S的同事T會面，並享受「一場愉快的長談，他們還特別為我調製了番石榴咖啡飲料，這正是夏日午後應該喝的甜咸清爽飲料」；緩件號HQL-613派送成功， 另外HQL-611、HQL-610和HQL-612等待轉運
COURIER CHARIS finally makes it to her delivery destination at Bungee Space on the Lower East Side, but unfortunately RECEIVER S is not there; instead, she meets with T, the colleague of S, and enjoys "a lovely long chat and they made me a special guava coffee drink, which is exactly the kind of sweet and salty refreshing thing to have on a summer afternoon"; delivery of dispatch HQL-613 now complete, and HQL-610, HQL-611, and HQL-612 in relay
Hi dear S,
Thanks for asking about coming today but I won’t be able to make it as a friend unexpectedly popped into Brooklyn. I’m thinking about Wednesday or Friday next week. Would you mind telling me when you won’t be in (or will be) whichever is easier to convey?
Everything is well in New York, my days have been mostly catching up with friends and walking lazily around. Letting the summer heat slow my routine and mind down. Here’s a photo of the shop cat at Quimby’s in Williamsburg where I bought an armful of zines.
I'm writing you from the Hong Kong International Airport now. Excited to be in New York and excited to see the drop-off location Bungee Space and to meet you, S! Thanks for your welcome. I'm thinking right now of coming by on Friday, July 5, if that works for you.
It's funny, when I offered to courier some books from Hong Kong to New York, I didn't know or have any assumptions as to what the books would be. I actually own a copy of Acts of Departure but haven't read it yet and left it in my office at school by the time I picked up the books.
So on Saturday afternoon I wound up deciding to go to Art and Culture Outreach to acquire another copy to bring with me on the plane to read. I was planning on swinging by to buy some books for other friends. I've been feeling anxiety about this long flight (not having done such a long flight since 2020 at the start of the pandemic) and thought perhaps the book's company and the synchronicity with the dispatch would bring me comfort.
Below are images and captions of the journey so far.
Take care,
Charis
2024-06-30，22:10 UTC-04：
與收件人建立聯繫，她說：「感謝這次遞送。我很期待與妳見面並進行交談！Bungee Space 週一休息。其它時間的營業時間為上午11:00至下午7:30。我們也很樂意充當臨時轉運站，也請通知其他接收方我們的開放時間，謝謝！」
Contact established with RECEIVER, who writes: "Thank you for making this delivery. I am looking forward to meeting you in person and having a chat! Bungee Space is closed on Mondays. We are open from 11AM to 7:30PM on all other days. We are also happy to serve as a temporary relay centre. Please also notify the receivers about our opening hours, thanks!"
2024-06-27，17:42：
經過快速的攬件安排，慢遞員CHARIS夠取走大量慢遞件： HQL-610、611、HQL-612 和 HQL-613，全部前往紐約地區；她這次是臨時決定的行程，會停留兩周；『展銷場』先安排在曼哈頓下城的一個收件地點，希望不給CHARIS太大方便
After very quick meeting arrangements, courier CHARIS is able to pick up and great number of dispatches: HQL-610, 611, HQL-612, and HQL-613, all headed for the New York City metropolitan area; it was a last-minute arranged trip, and she will stay for two weeks, but arrangements for a single drop-off point in Lower Manhattan hope to keep it easy enough
2024-06-25，14:47：
一個朋友的朋友跟展銷場聯絡：「你好！我7月1號飛往紐約，JC跟我講你們有可能需要幫忙慢遞一些東西過去？跟我說一下！我可以帶大概10-12公斤的東西，行李額夠多」
A friend of a friend gets in touch with Display Distribute： Hi! I’m flying to NY on 1 July and JC mentioned to me that perhaps you would find it helpful if I couriered some things over? Let me know! I could carry about a duffel bag worth of things up to 10-12 kg, as I have quite a lot of baggage allowance
下東區 Lower East Side
牽動的手，我們慢步Soho-百老匯，在春天右轉，在包厘街北，於史坦頓右 Holding hands, we walk slowly through Soho—up Broadway, turn right on Spring, north on Bowery, and a right on Stanton.
T和我津津有味地聊「離開的舉措」和後勤慢遞，Bungee空間以及出版。我細覽所有書籍，T推薦我留意一些特別選集。當我們聊，T問我喝不喝特調，我說接受一切。T做了番石榴果義式濃縮和棕櫚糖特調。我真是幸運。 T and I enthusiastically chat about Acts of Departure and LIGHT LOGISTICS and Bungee Space and publishing. I peruse all the books and T recommends I pay particular attention to some specific sections. As we chat, T asks if they can make me a drink and I say I’ll have anything you’d like to make. T makes this guava juice, espresso, and palm sugar concoction. I feel lucky.
布鲁克林 Brooklyn
威廉斯堡：在遠離讀書人和小誌買家的世界中酣睡 Williamsburg：Soundly asleep in a world away from the book-readers and zine-buyers
波恩兰姆小丘：一些倒時差，每個早上醒來，閱讀，然後可能又睡去。在朋友的公寓裡讀關於女性間的友誼，這綑綁的加固依靠於我們選擇所言說的和如何說。「離開的舉措」，我讀完了。 Boerum Hill：A bit jetlagged, I wake up each morning and read and then perhaps fall asleep again. In my friend’s flat I read about friendship between women and the way these ties can be strengthened depending on what we choose to say and how we say it. I finish Acts of Departure.
緩件伴旅。我們同乘D火車，我指出在我們左邊的布魯克林大橋和曼哈頓下城的天際線。 I carry my dispatches with me like travelling with a companion. We take the D train together and I point out the Brooklyn Bridge to our left and the skyline of lower Manhattan.
路途中 En route
在香港國際機場26號登機口對面回復慢遞郵件，等待14:45飛往東京的航班，之後將轉機飛往肯尼迪機場 Responding to LIGHT LOGISTICS e-mail at the Hong Kong International Airport, waiting across from gate 26 for my flight at 14:45 to Tokyo, after which I will transfer to fly to JFK
我在從香港到東京的飛機上讀「離開的舉措」。對我來說有同時性的是歸因於邊界和交叉處的第一封給
D的信，我也有同樣的舉措。真的，讀這書的整體感受都像對我自己生活的注腳：自2020年當我打算移居首次去到美國，一個於疫情中期和香港的改變時定下的計畫。 I read Acts of Departure on the flight from Hong Kong to Tokyo. The first letter to D refers to borders and crossing and this feels like synchronicity to me, in accord with my own actions. Actually, the book as a whole feels to me like I’m adding footnotes to my own life: visiting the States for the first time since I went in 2020 when I was planning to relocate, a plan I put aside in the midst of the pandemic and changes in Hong Kong.
我在肯尼迪機場的海關警戒處排隊等待了2小時，當那裡反覆出現禁用手機標示開始一直在閱讀。第二頁段落的圖示說“信件可以通過海底電纜和電磁波跨越地球，以極其不滿可還實際的方式聯結我們。”是的，我飛向紐約的理由是，只是傳訊和打電話給我的朋友們已經不再充分，我們需要同在一個房間裡。 I wait for 2 hours in the queue at Customs and Border Protection at the John F. Kennedy Airport, reading most of the time since there are repeated signs to not use phones. The paragraph on the second page pictured here says, “a letter can cross the planet via ocean cables and electromagnetic waves that connect us in the most unsatisfying yet practical ways.” This is really the reason I flew to New York, it wasn’t sufficient to message and call my friend anymore, we needed to be in a room together.
灣仔 Wanchai
「上灣仔富德樓的電梯到14樓的艺鵠書店」 Going up the lift to Art and Culture Outreach on the 14th floor of Foo Tak Building in Wan Chai
找到《離開的舉動》在艺鵠書店的書架上
Finding Acts of Departure on the shelf at ACO
《離開的舉動》在我買到的其它書之間：送給 J 的《大山與人》、給 Z 的《光榮結業》和給自己的《Something Close to Music》 Acts of Departure sandwiched with the other books I bought: Driving Lantau for J, 光榮結業 for Z, and Something Close to Music for myself
HQL-610、611、612和613跟我的衣服還有好多從Don Don Donki給朋友買的零食放到行李箱 Packing HQL-610, 611, 612, and 613 along with my clothes and many snacks from Don Don Donki for friends
Despite being a same city destination and only separated by a small harbour, our dispatch was delayed for quite some time, hope that you were not too anxious about it. Noticing the very faint lift of curiousity as I handed over the package to you, I suspect that you might had already forgot about it since you placed your order in September. Hopefully you appreciate the unexpected. Our Hong Kong routes may have less cause for sluggishness than the rest, but in all honesty it was the contents which made me apprehensive, more apprehensive than I would have been before. But it's post-NSL now, post so many guilty verdicts, and almost post the ability to feel the freedom of two systems, so I have been shrinking back, on tiptoe. It has been a bad year for independent publishing and booksellers, making dramatic scenarios of being snared into the security bureau's lair for 'sensitive' knowledge-sharing revolve like searchlights in my head. But this delivery was never forgotten, and I have been determined to 'fulfill'. So it was today, before heading to Wanchai and Sheung Wan for other errands and visits, that I wrapped one staple-bound zine, kept stiff by the DVD inside, using Sogo Department Store advertising bills that were handed to me a few weeks ago by runner aunties at the Shenzhen Bay bus terminal (an unlikely location for such classic marketing actions, but insightfully on the mark with the recent 17% increase of mainlanders visiting Hong Kong due to relaxed border restrictions). If it becomes easier and easier to enter this city from all directions, how can intra-circulations still be sifted into an incongruent mix, to make histories and fettered pasts flow a bit more, or at least delay the hardening of cement? It's still a dire outlook despite trying to keep things a moving. Does this count for very much?
But I am afraid. Instead of establishing contact first as I usually do, this time I decided to first check out your receiving address in a Quarry Bay industrial building as a test of whether it would be safe enough to personally complete the delivery—or find a mailbox, or run for cover. At least the weather is fair today, and I unexpectedly receive a bonus HKD $137 subsidy on my Octopus card before taking the ferry to see you. This must be the free-dom to be found in HQL-648. After the ferry, comparing the price of fresh fish, and four stops further by 叮叮 ding-ding tram, I arrive and the wait for the lift is long and suspenseful, but its glass walls offer a reflective glance back across the harbour by way of another building's glossy distortions. First, a glass facade, a good sign. A poster for a modern dance performance taped inside the window, and an earthy-toned front reception, with stacked cardboard boxes but no reception. Looks better than the sham business front of HQL-629 at least. As I sit down across the corridor to write your dispatch label, a young female passes by and enters your space, disappearing behind a corner. I wonder if she is you. When i finally muster up the courage to ring the doorbell, a tall male comes to the door instead, and upon asking for you, that very faint lift of curiousity, and it's you.
長洲島轉運中心
Changzhou Island Relay Centre 經由 VIA
曼谷 Bangkok +
清邁 Chiangmai
5本，一共600克
5 publications, around 600 grams in total
沙漠中的AYESHA
AYESHA in DESERT +
colourBIG
慢遞招募發布
ROUTE REQUESTED：
2024-09-27，11:49
2024-11-15，UTC+07：
慢遞員沙漠中的AYESHA隨HQL-643安全降落在曼谷，她停留一天後前往泰緬邊境工作；接力慢遞員colourBIG 在清邁，沙漠中的AYESHA 12月份會過去，到時候可以見
COURIER AYESHA in DESERT lands safely in Bangkok with dispatch HQL-643, and she stays for the day before heading to the Thailand-Myanmar border for work; relay courier colourBIG is in Chiangmai, and loose plans are made for a relay when AYESHA in DESERT goes there in December
2024-11-12，18:03 UTC+01：
今天是沙漠中的AYESHA飛往曼谷前的最後一天，HumDrum Press發貨人和慢遞員還是在地鐵華沙大街車站前的廣告柱前爽快地完成了交接，沙漠中的AYESHA還送HumDrum一本她的小組最近出的刊物，《豆腐前史》
It's her last day before flying to Bangkok, but HumDrum Press and courier AYESHA in DESERT make a quick and easy handover in front of the advertising pillar at underground station Warschauerstraße, and AYESHA in DESERT also gifts HumDrum with a copy of her collective's own recently released publication, entitled Revolutionary Tofu
2024-11-08，09:08：
上個月以緩件號HQL-640A派送開啟的團結交換與慢遞接力進入第二回合，HumDrum Press柏林的合作夥伴可以帶一套出版物給慢遞員沙漠中的AYESHA，她馬上前往泰國進行持續研究；雖然她在出發前非常忙碌（「我有兩個會議，還有很多打包/清潔的事情要做」），但他們還是可以約在Kreuzberg和Friedrichshain之間的Warschauerstraße車站碰面
The solidarity trade and relay initiated last month with dispatch HQL-640A goes into round two with a set of publications from HumDrum Press brought from their Berlin-based co-conspirator to courier AYESHA in DESERT, who is on her way to Thailand for ongoing research; while extremely busy before her departure ("i have two meetings and lots of packing/cleaning stuff to be done"), they manage to make an appointment between Kreuzberg and Friedrichshain at the Warschauerstraße u-bahn station
「路線是12/11-17/11在香港，18/11-22/11在廣州，29/11-16/12基本上在杭州，16號從杭州出發去墨爾本。香港—廣州—杭州這两段大概只能帶2、3kg，杭州-墨爾本會可以帶比較多一點（5kg左右）」 Route is: 12-17 November in Hong Kong, 18-22 November in Guangzhou, 29 November - 16 December mostly in Hangzhou, and departing from Hangzhou to Melbourne on the 16th; between Hong Kong-Guangzhou-Hangzhou I can carry about 2 or 3 kg, and from Hangzhou to Melbourne a bit more (around 5 kg)
2024-10-24，23:23 UTC+09：
收件人豆芽更新：大约在15:03-15:23間，從新高圓寺地鐵到了IRA目的地「終於送到咯！」
COURIER bean SPROUT UPDATE：Was about 15:03-15:23 coming from Shin-koenji station to the final destination of IRA, finally delivered!
2024-10-07，00:18：
慢遞員豆芽在機場直接收到蛙池樂團同好親自從廣州送來的100張CD，還有一個新的行李箱，特意為了攜帶這些額外的运載，也很適合HQL-639派遣；紅眼航班預定在幾個小時後出發
COURIER bean SPROUT receives 100 CDs from a WACHI bandmate directly at the airport, along with a new luggage for especially carrying this extra load and nicely fit in dispatch HQL-639 as well; red-eye departure scheduled in a couple of hours
2024-10-05，晚上 evening：
展銷場已經有好一陣子沒有從日本進新書了，既然慢遞員聲帶姐已經提出願意攜帶，展銷場後台成員覺得現在是跟東京的老朋友IRA安排一次交換的好時機；雖然沒有時間給聲帶姐攜帶書籍從香港到東京，但慢遞員豆芽卻神奇地被邀請為聲帶姐的樂團攜帶100張CD到東京（他們忘了！)； 在深水埗吃完晚飯後，豆芽走了很長的一段路回到她住的油麻地地點，並收到兩本《離開的舉動》給IRA和一本作為答謝
It has been a while since Display Distribute has clocked in any new publications from Japan into the distro, and since courier VOCAL CHORD SISTER has offered to carry, the LOGISTICIANS are thinking it might be a good time to arrange a distro trade with their old friends from Irregular Rhythm Asylum in Tokyo; while there isn't time to give VOCAL CHORD SISTER books to bring from Hong Kong to Tokyo, it magically appears that COURIER bean SPROUT has been enlisted to carry 100 CDs to Tokyo for VOCAL CHORD SISTER's band (they forgot!), and there is a bit of space left to carrry a few books, too; so after dinner together in Sham Shui Po, bean SPROUT takes a long evening walk back to where she's staying in Yaumatei and receives one copy of Acts of Departure as a gratitude for her efforts along with two more copies to trade with IRA
新宿区 Shinjuku
HQL-639路途中 Dispatch HQL-639 en route
IRA大哥Kei生拿到手啦！ Brother Kei from IRA with dispatch in hand
油麻地 Yaumatei
好聽的交接 A good sounding handover
緩件號HQL-639有兩本給收件人一本給慢遞員豆芽 Dispatch HQL-639 includes one copy for COURIER bean SPROUT
2024-10-17，17:21 UTC+01：
tinE和駿豪提議在鹿特丹的蛋糕店NOiAA會合、交接和交換，而NOiAA恰好是緩件號HQL-640A的收件人最喜歡的地方；儘管還在倒時差，tinE還是先到了，並用一杯抹茶拿鐵和一個抹茶蛋糕振奮精神；幾分鐘之後，兩個收件人都來了，三位一起有了一次可愛的聊天，又一次成功的派送
As suggested by tinE and ZOENHO, a joint handover and exchange happens at cake shop NOiAA in Rotterdam, which so happens to be HQL-640A's RECEIVER's new favourite place; even while still jetlagged, tinE arrives first and revs up with a matcha latte and a matcha cake, and both receivers come in a few minutes later for a cute and lovely chat and another successful handover
2024-10-16，04:08 UTC+01：
慢遞員駿豪更新：「嗨嗨：）！我這週四會去鹿特丹！可以跟tinE取包裹然後帶640A給HumDrum嗎？我大概下午四點到，計畫六點鐘去Garage Rotterdam參加一個分享會：）！過去之前很想跟你們好好聊一下！🫶🏻✨」
COURIER ZOENHO UPDATE：Heyhey ：）! I am visiting Rotterdam this Thursday! Would it be possible to pick up the package from tinE and bring the 640A to HumDrum? I will be in Rotterdam around 4pm and joining a presentation at Garage Rotterdam around 6pm：）! Would love to have a nice chat with you guys before I go for the presentation! 🫶🏻✨
2024-10-11，14:33 UTC+01：
慢遞員tinE安全抵達鹿特丹，而慢遞員駿豪則分享他最近在烏特勒支的一些活動，包括出席在Casco Institute for the Commons舉辦的lumbung kios工作會議，展銷場正好也有遠程參與，一時間，人肉與靈肉在屏幕世界交會，慢遞緩件成為一份拉近距離的伴手禮物
COURIER tinE arrives back in Rotterdam, and COURIER ZOENHO shares some of his recent activities in Utrecht, including the attendings of a lumbung kios working session at Casco Institute for the Commons, where Display Distribute is also a participant, making human flesh coincide with virtual flesh for a brief moment, and with LIGHT LOGISTICS dispatches as a mini bridge in between
2024-10-09，22:15：
慢遞員駿豪被拉入HQL-640的WhatsApp群，立即認出慢遞員tinE，真符合「後勤慢遞」的快樂、gezellig和親密社群網路操作；駿豪和tinE計畫一起在鹿特丹吃一頓交接慶祝餐。
COURIER ZOENHO is brought into the HQL-640 WhatsApp communiqué and immediately recognises COURIER tinE as well, very happy, gezellig, and cosy in line with LIGHT LOGISTICS social network maneuvering; plans are made for tineE and ZOENHO to have a handover celebration meal together in Rotterdam soon
2024-10-08，大概 around 18:30：
在觀塘制定了新的交接計畫，ANN從一棟工業大樓移到另一棟工業大樓（中間隔一段地鐵），成功將需派遣的HQL-640A/B交給tinE，tinE安排於後日10號啟程前往荷蘭
A new plan is made for a handover in Kwun Tong, and ANN moves from one industrial building to another with some public transport in between, successfully handing off dispatch HQL-640A/B to tinE, who is scheduled to depart for Holland on the 10th
2024-10-08，13:51：
慢遞員ANN更新：「TINE～哎呀，臨時決定聽日在屋企開會，唔返土瓜灣。你今日會在邊度活動啊，如果方便的話或者我今日俾你？」
COURIER ANN UPDATE：Oh no, tinE, I've spontaneously decided to stay at home tomorrow and won't go to Tokwawan. Where will you be today? if it's convenient for you and can bring it to where you are?
2024-10-07，10:58：
由於慢遞員tinE週末出城，無法到土瓜灣中繼中心取件，在土瓜灣工作的慢遞員ANN趕在TINE前往荷蘭之前與她會面；很快，她們就發現兩人早就認識，很有幸在tinE飛往西方之前有機會見面
Since COURIER tinE is in out of town for the weekend and unable to pick-up the dispatch from the Tokwawan Relay Centre, COURIER ANN, who works in Tokwawan, comes to the rescue and can meet with her just before she departs for the Netherlands; it is soon discovered that the two already know one another before, making for a lucky opportunity for a friendly catch-up before tinE flies west
2024-10-04，15:33：
tinE報名成為展銷場人肉慢遞員的同時，展銷場也在關注位於鹿特丹的獨立出版社HumdrumPress的傑出作品，因此似乎沒有比這更好的時機，由新任慢遞員tinE的剩餘承載空間的幫助，來發起一場團結的貿易；令人啼笑皆非的是，之前的讀者轉變為運送者的駿豪，最近也在聯繫、尋找關於出版理論與策略的閱讀與討論，並且在聽到有前往荷蘭的可用路線後，立即下了訂單；計畫已經開始動作，由tinE領取現成為緩件的HQL-640A到鹿特丹HumdrumPress，以及 HQL-640B到在烏特勒支的訂單WC-9207收件人駿豪
tinE signs up to be a LIGHT LOGISTICS courier right around the same time that Display Distribute is looking at the critical and challenging work of independent publishers HumdrumPress, based in Rotterdam, so it seems like no better moment to initiate a solidarity trade with new COURIER tinE's surplus carrying space help; ironically, previous reader-turned-courier ZEONHO (HQL-461) has also been in touch recently, looking for readings and discourse around publishing theory and tactics, and upon hearing about the available route to the Netherlands, immediately places an order for Publishing as Method; plans are put into motion for tinE to pick up what has now become dispatch HQL-640A, to HumdrumPress in Rotterdam, and HQL-640B, to order WC-9207's RECEIVER in Utrecht
鬆餅街 Pannekoekstraat
慢遞員tinE先到，「嘿嘿嘿 👍🏻✨」
Courier tinE arrives at NOiAA first, heheheh 👍🏻✨
收件人/慢遞員駿豪從火車站走過去，需要15分鐘 Courier-receiver ZOENHO walking to the meet-up location, takes 15 minutes
緩件號HQL-640B Dispatch HQL-640B
打開HQL-640B Unboxing dispatch HQL-640B
駿豪也順便淘了一本Humdrum的書 ZOENHO also picks up a copy of a Humdrum publication for himself
醉抹茶後，慢遞員tinE和HumDrum收件人合影
Post-matcha overdose portrait of courier tinE with HumDrum RECEIVER
3512PA 烏特勒支 Utrecht
Casco今日嘅event Today’s event at Casco
lumbung kios 的經濟圈在荷蘭延續
Continuation of lumbung kios economic model in the Netherlands
「昨天harvest嘅mapping由Marianna同埋Aline一齊記錄下來的」 Yesterday’s harvest mapping was written by Marianna and Aline
動物園 Blijdorp
「到啦」 Arrived
觀塘 Kwun Tong
在觀塘的一棟樓上電梯 Up an elevator in Kwun Tong
慢遞員tinE和慢遞員ANN合影 Couriers tinE and ANN together again
大王叫我來巡山
The King Has Called Me to Patrol the Mountain +
大雨相 lß +
何子 NANIKO
到達
COMPLETED：
2024-10-13，17:56
慢遞招募發布
ROUTE REQUESTED：
2024-07-31，00:52
2024-10-13，22:13 UTC+01：
收件人評價：「遞送成功啦！謝謝 @大王叫我來巡山 這麼波折地把我的書帶到 ❤️ 輾轉不同地方都帶著包裹實在是辛苦了！！！ 我今天早上先去了Utrecht的Casco看朋友的展覽，在現場買了給巴勒斯坦donate的手工小徽章送給大王答謝 💝 希望大王學業順利！之後如果需要來荷蘭借宿可以找我 我家一直開放接待沙發客（小床/沙發/睡袋）」
RECEIVER REVIEW：Delivery successful! Thank you to @The King Has Called Me to Patrol the Mountain for such a circuitous effort to bring the books ❤️, relaying through different places while carrying the dispatch is not easy!!! This morning I went to Casco in Utrecht to see a friend's exhibition, and I bought a small pin in support of Palestine as a thank you to The King Has Called Me to Patrol the Mountain 💝 Hope that her studies will be smooth! If you ever need a place to stay in Holland, you can always contact me, my flat is always open to couch surfers (I've got a small bed/sofa/sleeping bag)
2024-10-13，大概 around 18:00 UTC+01：
收件人沒在預定的交接時間出現，慢遞員大王叫我來巡山打兩次電話不通，但收件人一小時後又出現，抱歉地解釋她錯過了從烏特勒支開出的火車而且她的手機也沒電了；到了愛因荷芬想從郵遞區號5612的某個地方騎單車到郵遞區號5612的另一個地方，可是今天還是有點交通不順利，自行車無法使用；結果5分鐘的旅程變成12分鐘，緩件號HQL-633終於在下午6點左右與收件者見面
RECEIVER doesn't appear at the scheduled handover time, and COURIER The King Has Called Me to Patrol the Mountain calls a few times, but one hour later, RECEIVER resurfaces again explaining apologetically that she had missed the train from Utrecht and her phone had been out of battery; the bicycle she wanted to ride from one part of post code 5612 to another part of post code 5612 also seems not to be working today, so the 5-minute journey becomes 12 minutes, and dispatch HQL-633 finally meets its receiver around 6pm
2024-10-12，23:31 UTC+01：
收件人更新：「明天剛好去愛因荷芬見朋友，剛剛發現我朋友家就在你朋友家旁邊也是5612好巧！！」
RECEIVER UPDATE：I'm going to visit a friend in Eindhoven tomorrow also, and just realised that their house is just next to the address you gave me of your friend's house in the 5612 post code area, what a coincidence!!
2024-10-10，16:10 UTC+01：
收件人回覆：「可以問下週末方便嘛 我去埃因愛芬取～ 因為我有週末套餐週末火車可以不花錢 」；目前約好10月13號周天15:00-17:00在愛因荷芬5612片區的Kronehoefstraat交接
RECEIVER REPLY：Would weekends work for you? I have a weekend train subscription and can ride for free on the weekends, so I can go to Eindhoven to pick up～；tentative plans are made for a final handover on Sunday, 13 October, between 15:00-17:00 in Eindhoven's 5612 area of Kronehoefstraat
2024-10-01，13:19 UTC+01：
大王叫我來巡山更新：「我是在法蘭克福落地，在荷蘭大概呆20天左右，目前不會去阿姆；也想問問如果書不是特別急的話，可不可以再等一下，明天落地後大部分行李會先放到科隆，因為實在是太折騰了；我年底可能會再來荷蘭，或者可以再看看能否碰上一個慢遞員；不然我3號傍晚坐大巴到埃因霍芬，想請問我們可以在Flixbus的車站完成遞送嗎？」
The King Has Called Me to Patrol the Mountain UPDATE：I'll land in Frankfurt and stay in Holland around 20 days, but without any plans to go to Amsterdam as of yet; wanted to ask, if you're not in a hurry, would you mind waiting a bit longer? Tomorrow after I arrive, I'll be storing most of my luggage in Cologne because it's really too much to lug around, and I'll be back in the Netherlands at the end of the year, so maybe we can catch another courier in this time? Otherwise, I will arrive to Eindhoven early evening on the 3rd, would like to ask if we can make the handover at the Flixbus stop then?
2024-09-23，06:05：
大王叫我來巡山更新：「在廣州交接之後目前書一直放在成都，10.2啓程來埃因霍芬」
The King Has Called Me to Patrol the Mountain UPDATE：The books have stayed in Chengdu since I picked them up in Guangzhou, will go back to get them before travelling to Eindhoven on 10.2
2024-08-25，午飯 lunch time：
慢遞員大雨相不巧忙得不可開交，第二天才將HQL-633交付，也使得這次短暫的敘舊略顯倉促；希望大王叫我來巡山不會質疑，大雨相對於她的友誼那不善表露的內心珍重，還有對她曾在危急時刻種種照料的感激
COURIER lß is as busy as can be, and she is only able to handover HQL-633 a couple days later, so this brief encounter is a bit rushed; she hopes that The King Has Called Me to Patrol the Mountain doesn't question her doubt their high estimation of their friendship and the gratitude that COURIER The King Has Called Me to Patrol the Mountain has given her in a time of crisis
2024-08-24，午後 afternoon：
慢遞員大王叫我來巡山特地從熱死人的重慶落地同樣熱死人的廣州看望老相識大雨相和取慢遞緩件號HQL-633；之後這位重情重義的美女子會去深圳看望她剛生下雙胞胎的另一位老相識；再之後慢遞員大王叫我來巡山會在回到中國的畢業休假期間巡遊好幾個城市，再返回荷蘭和德國繼續第二個研究生學業
COURIER The King Has Called Me to Patrol the Mountain has come especially from scorching hot Chongqing to equally burning Guangzhou to visit her old friend lß and pick up dispatch HQL-633; afterwards, this beautiful woman with a strong sense of love and righteousness will travel to Shenzhen to visit another old friend who has just given birth to twins, and after that she'll continue to visit a several other cities in China while still on her graduating year summer break before returning to the Netherlands and Germany to continue her second masters studies
2024-08-11，19:49：
慢遞員為何醬在廣州長洲島轉運站成功將緩件HQL-633交手給慢遞員大雨相；她們忘記拍交接的照片，但晚上時大雨相在她睡覺前補拍了一張
COURIER NANIKO successfully hands over dispatch HQL-633 to COURIER lß at the Changzhou Island Relay Centre in Guangzhou; they forget to take a photograph of the handover, but lß makes a documentation at night before she goes to bed
2024-08-09，10:30：
慢遞員為何醬旅乘跨境巴士從香港去廣州，每一次她都覺得這線路越來越快，除了在龍舟節的那回，擁擠的路況使得交通時間拉伸到6個小時左右之久；這可能是因為她嘗試以不同的巴士公司和不同的落車點來更靠近長洲島轉運站，但也可能因為中國和香港間的基礎建設越發強化；這帶給為何醬許多曖昧不清的感受
COURIER NANIKO travels by cross-border bus from Hong Kong to Guangzhou, and except for that one time she made the same journey on Dragon Boat Festival day and there was a traffic jam stretching the ride to around 6 hours, each time she goes by bus the route feels faster and faster; maybe it's because she's been trying out different bus companies with different drop-off points closer to the Changzhou Island Relay Centre, but maybe it's because the infrastructures of connection between China and Hong Kong feel stronger and stronger; this gives NANIKO many ambivalent feelings
愛因荷芬 5612 Eindhoven
「是这栋楼嘛」 Are you at this building?
HQL-633派送成功 Dispatch HQL-633 delivery successful
長洲島 Changzhou Island
HQL-633夜景 Dispatch HQL-633 night view
慢遞員大王叫我來巡山路過廣州時，lß轉接HQL-633給她 COURIER lß hands over to COURIER The King Has Called Me to Patrol the Mountain while she’s passing through Guangzhou for a few days
「台北、高雄、大阪、東京的書呀 我這次可以帶一些；7號中午到東京，10號上午10點飛機去大阪。所以9號下午2點前都是自由活動時間；9號下午2點開始我們就要準備演出了，9號晚上演出」 Can take books to/from Taipei, Kaohsiung, Osaka and Tokyo this time; arriving on the 7th to Tokyo, leaving for Osaka on the morning of the 10th; will have free time on the 9th before 2pm, after 2pm we'll start preparing the concert
2024-09-22，18:54 UTC-04：
收件人報告：「收到LAW先生送的包裹了：）因為我們見面的時候已經過了晚上12點了，沒有一起拍照，但那晚我有拍到緩件」；緩件號HQL-631派送完成
RECEIVER REPORT：I’ve received the package from Mr. LAW ：） We didn’t get a photo together since it was past midnight by the time we met up, but I did take a photo of it the night i got it; dispatch HQL-631 completed
2024-08-28，08:50 UTC-04：
慢遞員Y-醬更新：「你好！昨天我跟LAW先生見面遞送好緩件啦！LAW先生好心地來到曼哈頓中城，就在我工作的附近，我們喝了一杯咖啡，聊得很愉快。謝謝LAW，我很喜歡這次與您的短暫相遇！希望大家一切順利<3」
COURIER Y-chan UPDATE：Hello! Yesterday I was able to meet Mr. LAW to hand out the package! Mr. LAW kindly came into midtown Manhattan near my work and we had a nice chat over coffee. Thanks Mr. LAW, I loved this brief encounter with you! I hope all is well with everyone <3
2024-08-20，14:29 UTC-04：
收件人加入「半自主」的出版經濟圈，將展銷場慢遞網絡與她自己的紐約-多倫多速遞朋友LAW先生連結起來，而LAW立即聯絡慢遞員Y-醬：「你好，我在長島市居住和工作，但我有車，可以根據需要前往其他區域。Y-醬，如果你能告訴我何時何地對您比較方便，我會盡力配合。你這個星期有時間讓我去拿J的包裹嗎？」
RECEIVER joins the circular 'semi-autonomous' publishing economy by linking LIGHT LOGISTICS up with her own New York-Toronto courier friend, Mr. LAW, who promptly contacts COURIER Y-chan: Hi there, I live and work in Long Island City, but I have a car and can travel to other boroughs as needed. Y-chan, if you'd kindly give me an idea when and where might be more convenient for you, I'll try my best to accommodate. Are you available sometime this week for me to pick up J's package?
I just got the book and the Toronto package! （<-- pls send me info about that one when you can：））This morning we met up at KAT's fave place in Chinatown for yummy rice rolls and congee. A super humid day in nyc!
So excited to read the book after hearing about it from KAT, too — but I'll enjoy admiring your packaging for another day before opening it haha. KAT, thank you again for bringing it to me, and for the lovely breakfast :) I loved chatting with you!
HQL-628收件人Y-醬變成HQL-631布魯克林轉運站的慢遞員，等待轉運
COURIER KAT 3rd DISPATCH：
Y and I met in Chinatown and had a late breakfast together — we talked organizing & art & making things. I handed off the packages and am so excited for her to read The Last Emporium, which I started on my flight from Tokyo to NYC.
RECEIVER Y-chan of dispatch HQL-628 becomes Brooklyn relay centre courier for HQL-631, awaiting relay
Earlier today, I went to Wo Hop Shek cemetery to look for my po po’s grave. I’d been anxious about this all summer, inventing creative excuses that mostly centered on my bad Cantonese (how will I tell the taxi where to go? How will I ask for help locating the grave?) and the limited amount of information my Yi Ma could provide about her mother: the year she died, and her name. The last time my Yi Ma saw the grave was in 1969, before she left Hong Kong for the States. The only thing I knew growing up about my Po Po was that she died when my mom was only four, from uterine cancer. My Yi Ma told me a story about how every time she and my mother and their brothers visited the cemetery, my mother would become sick. As they climbed the giant hills of the cemetery, she would “get rid of everything in her body,” my Yi Ma put it, meaning she vomited. This was one of the few things I’d heard about my mother’s childhood; she died when I was a teenager. This story always confused me, until I found myself walking the grounds of one of the Wo Hop Shek Columbariums, sweating and feeling panicky and looking for anybody to ask for help. These were not hills; this was an actual mountain they had to summit. The metaphor was not lost on me.
A man named Ricky in one of the offices helped me; this caption is getting long, so I’ll just skip ahead to the part where, sweating into the paper he printed off for me of my (maybe) Po Po’s grave, I hailed yet another taxi per his instructions to take me up the winding hills of the cemetery into some of the oldest sections.
An hour later, weaving in and out of the rows of gravestones on the hillsides, I had found my Po Po.
(Calling my Yi Ma afterward to tell her about this — me talking with my limited Cantonese and her with her limited English — felt like this summer was exactly as it should have been. Any guilt I had for not “writing enough” or “learning enough Cantonese” or “watching too much Sex in the City” (???What??? I don’t know either) had evaporated.)
2024-08-04，22:04：
慢遞員KAT第一次更新：「我今天匆忙打包並試圖匯集起在香港的這兩個月的生活。提醒著在一季中有多少可以發生，儘管難以察覺。我當貓保姆的主人比預期的提早一天返回；試著離開回到美國前在大埔完成這差事並有很多令人發狂的清潔工作。看著我將遞送的書和一本我在夏天買來讀合在一起真的很美好，那是我從展銷場買的（和CHARIS一樣，我也打算在飛機上讀《離開的舉動》），以及粵語書。我學一段時間粵語了，來讓我感到跟家人多些的聯繫，可多數時候，我自己——我只能試圖從語法上分析，確實，語言意味著我。這或保留，或吞嚥，或自在我們的來源。一個朋友提醒我，語言總是綑綁於地方，是我們檔案的建築術。我喜歡這樣。」
COURIER KAT 1st DISPATCH： I’m in a rush today packing and trying to gather up the life I’ve made here in Hong Kong these past two months. It’s a reminder of how much life can happen in a season, even if imperceptible. The person I’m cat sitting for is returning a day earlier than I expected; lots of frantic cleaning and trying to finish errands in Tai Po before I fly back to the states. It’s sweet to see the books I’ll be delivering mingling with the ones I brought to read this summer, the ones I bought from Display Distribute (like CHARIS, I also plan to read Acts of Departure on my flights) as well as the Cantonese textbooks. I’ve been teaching myself Cantonese so that I can feel more connected to my family, but also mostly, myself—I’ve been trying to parse what, exactly, language means to me. What it holds or swallows or frees us from. A friend reminds me that language is always tied to place, and that it is the architecture for our Archive. I love that.
2024-08-03，around 16:30：
慢遞員KAT和緩件號HQL-610至 613的慢遞員CHARIS一樣，是由JC向『展銷場』人肉慢遞網絡推薦的；在與大埔的一隻可愛的貓咪共住兩個月後，她順道土瓜灣轉運站取HQL-628和HQL-631，然後下周返回在華盛頓特區的家，其間會去紐約探望朋友幾天
Courier KAT has, like courier CHARIS of dispatches HQL-610 to 613, been recommended to the LIGHT LOGISTICS network by JC; toward the tail end of a 2-month sojourn with a cuddly cat in Tai Po, she drops by the Tokwawan Relay Centre to pick up dispatches HQL-628 and HQL-631 before heading back home next week to Washington, DC with a few days' to visit friends in New York in between
市中心 Downtown
「我收到那一晚」 The night I got it
曼哈頓中城 Midtown
慢遞員Y-醬和LAW COURIERS Y-chan and LAW
唐人街 Chinatown
收件人轉身變成慢遞員Y-醬 RECEIVER turned COURIER Y-chan
Book deliveries in front of food deliveries
和合石 Wo Hop Shek
「這是她的景」 Here is her view.
大埔 Taipo
空閒路線 AVAILABLE ROUTE
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柏林 Berlin
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發佈 POSTED：
2024-09-19，19:00
「我2024年10月9日會去柏林，行李箱有多餘的空間可以帶書。我去參加MissRead藝術書展，也可以帶一些書到那裡賣」 I will be travelling to Berlin on October 9, 2024 and have extra room in my suitcase to take books. I will be travelling to MissRead bookfair so could bring and distribute the books there.
2024-09-19，大概 around 16:00：
收件人和慢遞員易拎約了一個在週四下午鬆散的定，當收件人說他會在都會大學並且時間靈活可以碰面；當她這陣子花時間和她媽媽相處，她考慮在土瓜灣轉運站附近的散步應該會不錯，就這樣安排了可能不是最佳選擇的一天的走走；這天天氣晴朗潮濕，似乎在告訴你風暴將至，你的身體會先打濕；媽媽一路都在抱怨，特別在“遠行”中一大段爬坡路時，易拎感到些許後悔，她們沒有搭乘地鐵；今天是媽媽的生日，走一走理應不錯。當她們靠近學區，易拎跟著位年輕瘦瘦穿老爹鞋的女孩身後過馬路，特別的光線在她腳上，幾乎一跳。十來個學生在路邊丟垃圾，就連媽媽都注意到大多數學生說著普通話；無論如何，她們到了，媽咪很開心能躲進大學取名Mu的咖啡廳，為有空調和凍檸茶；易拎在外面等收件人，他抱歉說會下來晚一點因為他剛開始和他新加坡的主管安東尼·陳聊事；他邀請易拎喝一個，但今天是易拎媽咪的生日，她們有晚上的家庭聚餐。希望他們能很快再次聯繫上。
RECEIVER and courier PORTABLE make a loose appointment for Thursday afternoon, as RECEIVER says he will be at Hong Kong Metropolitan University and flexible to come down for a meet-up; as she is spending time with her mother these days, she thinks a walk could be nice from the nearby Tokwawan Relay Centre, and so they set off on what actually is probably not the best day for walking; it is sunny and humid, the kind that tells you a big storm is coming, when your body rains first; mum complains a lot along the way, especially because there are large sections of the journey that are uphill, and PORTABLE feels a bit regretful that they had not taken the MTR; today is mum's birthday, a walk could have been nice. As they approach the university area, PORTABLE crosses the street behind a young, skinny girl wearing 'daddy' shoes, especially light on her feet, almost a hop. Scores of students begin the litter the sidewalk, and even mum notices that most of the students speak Mandarin; but anyway, they have arrived, and mum is happy to duck into the campus café, called Mu, for air conditioning and an iced lemon tea; PORTABLE waits outside for RECEIVER, who apologises for coming down a bit late because he has just been chatting with Singaporean director Anthony CHEN; he offers to invite PORTABLE for a drink, but it's mum's birthday today and they are off to a family dinner, hopefully they can chat more soon.
何文田 Homantin
緩件號HQL-636在Mu Cafe外面 Dispatch HQL-636 outside Mu Cafe
收件人說：「包得那麼好！」 RECEIVER says: “It’s wrapped so nice!“
It’s 11am the morning after my only brother’s wedding, and I’m on the way to another emotional reunion with my group of college friends. We haven’t been all together in a decade. But first, an iconic NYC B.E.C. (bacon, egg & cheese) from the bodega. It arouses in me no feeling whatsoever.
I first meet up with one of my first friends in university, Trevor. He was always a scholar and writer, but is now also a professor, living with his husband in West Virginia. We discuss the ways we seem the same and the ways we feel different than our more youthful selves.
We are (mostly!) reunited at dispatch HQL-600's final destination of Printed Matter. My eyes were misty. I am reminded that time does not move in the straight line, but spirals three-dimensionally, looping back with slight variations on a theme.
2024-04-21，14:16 UTC-04：
慢遞員蓝宝石喼汁更新：「很多事情在發生，要先參加我哥哥的婚禮，然後與兒時的朋友團聚，在週六一起把緩件帶過去」
COURIER sapphire KETCHUP UPDATE: Lots happening, I’ll be going to my brothers wedding first and then reuniting with a childhood friend to bring the package over on Sat
2024-04-24，21:00：
從香港國際機場出發，搭乘紅眼航班飛往紐約
Departure from Hong Kong International Airport on a red-eye flight to New York
2024-04-23，21:50：
慢遞員藍寶石喼汁安排在深水埗接手緩件HQL-600，她在那裡上晚班；這般幸運，因為這天慢遞項目會提早跑去深圳又相當晚才返回香港，而藍寶石番茄汁隨意又輕鬆，下班後的等待同時享受一碟家常炸餃；交接終於完成——HQL-600替作一份秘密慢遞員交換的日本醃醬菜糠
Courier sapphire KETCHUP arranges for her pick-up of dispatch HQL-600 in ShamShuiPo, where she is working an evening shift; this is fortunate, because the LIGHT LOGISTICIAN has made a run to Shenzhen earlier in the day and is quite late getting back to Hong Kong, but sapphire KETCHUP is chill and relaxed, enjoying a plate of homey fried dumplings while waiting after work; the handover is finally successful—HQL-600 in exchange for an under-the-table courier exchange of nukazuke bran from Japan.
車路士 Chelsea
AoD with BEC
sapphire KETCHUP的同學Trevor先生 sapphire KETCHUP‘s uni classmate Trevor
慢遞派送變成同學會 Courier delivery as class reunion
收件人拍慢遞緩件HQL-600
Dispatch HQL-600 portrait by RECEIVER
也拍背面 And also the back cover
路上 En route
慢遞員sapphire KETCHUP往美國飛 Courier sapphire KETCHUP flying to the United States
24小時一直在路上後第一件事：在皇后區吃烏茲別克斯坦菜
深水埗 Shamshuipo
緩件號HQL-600和煎餃在深水埗一起攬好 Dispatch HQL-600 picked up in Shamshuipo along with a gyoza dinner
2024-08-26，16:00：
為了緩解她受到收件人粗魯對待的沮喪挫敗，易拎邀請一位朋友到和CHP幾週前碰面的同一個咖啡館喝咖啡；新任參與的慢遞員TOTORO和易拎在上樓遞送慢遞前先咖啡聊天了一下，毫不意外的，那幾乎是一家有許多間空殼辦公室的陰暗的國際公司；TOTORO和易拎投遞時，收件人不在；再-也-不-見～
In order to ease her frustration about being treated rudely by RECEIVER, PORTABLE invites an aquaintance for a coffee at the same place where CHP and PORTABLE met a few weeks back; newly enlisted courier TOTORO and PORTABLE have coffee and chat first before heading upstairs to make the delivery, which, not surprisingly, seems to be a shady international corporation with a virtually empty shell office; RECEIVER is not in when TOTORO and PORTABLE make the drop-off; bye-bye~
2024-08-21，14:13：
三週後，收件人終於給慢遞員易拎在WhatsApp的留信給出反應，突然地急需她所訂購的書；隨後便是來電，帶著典型的對於低效遞送的中產焦慮，強烈要求將緩件HQL-629上門送去她在尖沙嘴的收件地址 ；慢遞員易拎有些抵觸此舉，但還是盡量安排下週過去
Three weeks later, RECEIVER finally responds to courier PORTABLE's previous WhatsApp messages, suddenly in urgent need of the book which she's ordered; a subsequent phone call reveals a significant middle-class anxiety about inefficient delivery workers and demand that dispatch HQL-629 be brought door-to-door to her delivery address in Tsim Sha Tsui; courier PORTABLE feels a bit resistant, but will try her best for the following week
2024-08-02，16:26：
易拎和CHP在收件人收件地址的建築入口碰頭；她倆都沒來過麼地道的這邊，感覺商業化和洋氣；街邊店面有些時髦的咖啡館和餐廳，建築的頭兩層是購物中心，上面則是辦公間；CHP和易拎貿然上到鬼般的樓層九，並由公司名字發現一家樣子神秘的技術辦公室；在週中的工作時間，但沒人應門鈴；她們回到樓下，在關於種族、城市耕種、文化外交的長聊間，一起喝了杯高價的義式濃縮奎寧水
PORTABLE and CHP meet at the entrance of the building listed as RECEIVER's shipping address; neither of them have been to this side of Mody Road before, and it feels commercial and foreign; there are several fancy cafés and restaurants at the streetside storefronts, and the first two levels of the building are a shopping centre while the upper floors are offices; CHP and PORTABLE venture up to a ghostly 9th floor and discover a mysterious looking tech office, from the looks of the name of the company; it's a weekday during office hours, but no one answers the doorbell; they go back downstairs and have overpriced espresso tonics together over a long chat about rice, urban gardening, and cultural diplomacy
2024-08-02，12:58：
慢遞員易拎決定再次通過WhatsApp來找到收件人當日碰面；還是沒有回覆，但既然她是去會面結束在廣州工作再次路過香港幾天的曾經慢遞員CHP (HQL-563)，她們試著一起到收件人留下的地址單，來個意外訪問的慢遞冒險
Courier PORTABLE decides to try again by WhatsApp to find the RECEIVER for a same day meet-up; still no reply, but since she is going to meet former courier CHP (HQL-563), who is passing through Hong Kong again for a few days after work in Guangzhou, in Tsim Sha Tsui, they try a cold-call couriering adventure together at the RECEIVER's listed shipping address
2024-07-30，傍晚 early evening：
收件人重未回覆過易拎的郵件，所以易拎只得搭171路直接從黃竹坑跳線去尖沙嘴
RECEIVER never replies to PORTABLE's email, so PORTABLE takes the bus 171 directly from Wong Chuk Hang, skipping Tsim Sha Tsui
2024-07-29，18:34：
因為收件人的位置離土瓜灣轉運站至少30分鐘路程，慢遞員易拎試圖在隔天臨時安排一場在尖沙嘴半途到她下午去黃竹坑和晚上去深水埗赴別的約之間的會面
Because the RECEIVER's location is less than thirty minutes away from the Tokwawan Relay Centre, courier PORTABLE attempts to arrange a spontaneous meet-up for the next day at the Tsim Sha Tsui midway point between her other engagements in Wong Chuk Hang (afternoon) and Sham Shui Po (evening)
尖東 East Tsim Sha Tsui
被告知找錯門了 Told this was the wrong door
警示：英文公司名稱顯示與網站不同 ALERT: English company name appears differently than on their website
2024-08-24，14:57：
慢遞員更新：「在入門和收件人會面啦！！緩件HQL-621完成傳遞，大家一起打開慢遞看漫畫，之後就是「暗中稱水」項目。運動健兒們衝呀！！」；派送成功
COURIER xzkd UPDATE：Met up with RECEIVER at 入門room!! Dispatch HQL-621 delivery successful, and we opened up the package together to read the comic before a "Waterweights in the Dark" event; athletes head to the street!!
2024-08-24，13:48：
慢遞員筆管魚更新：「看演出pogo太用力受傷了，慢遞只能由稻草人一人送達了。恰好『入門room』空間組織了一場特別有意思的運動會討論會，收件人也來，大家一起討論討論吧✌🏻 雖然我對體育運動會什麼的一竅不通（ᇂ_ᇂ|||）」
COURIER CUTTLEFISH UPDATE：Was pogo thrashing too hard during the festival in Beijing and got injured, so SCARECROW will have to make the final delivery alone; there is an upcoming Olympics discussion event at 入門room space, and even though we don't know the first thing about sports（ᇂ_ᇂ|||）, both SCARECROW and RECEIVER are going
2024-08-06，很早 very early：
展銷場千方百計終於聯絡上在某集市做書攤的收件人，他也熱絡響應了展銷場和慢遞員的招呼，慢遞派送勢在必得
After a bit of communication delay, Display Distribute LOGISTICIANS finally contact RECEIVER, who also peddles books at a local market and is very supportive of slow couriering; handover coming soon
2024-08-04，11:32：
慢遞員徐子匡窮更新：「你和我音樂節還在繼續，但我們兩天的觀演結束了，依依不捨地走上了離京的路程，北京地鐵人超級多！！依稀記得小學時坐稍小城市的地鐵，還認為地鐵上的扶手只是擺設。緩件馬上到津啦！」
COURIER xzkd UPDATE：The You and Me Festival goes on, but our two-day tour must come to an end; we're sad to leave Beijing, where the metro is super crowded!! We vaguely remember taking the subway in a small city when we were in primary school— thought the handrails were there just for show; dispatch will arrive in Tianjin shortly!
2024-08-02，14:35：
慢遞員徐子匡窮更新：「演出開始前六個半小時，懵懵的，見到了人超級好的波波爾午₍˄·͈༝·͈˄*₎◞ ̑̑，雙胞胎有什麼區別呢？其實我們自己都沒太搞明白呢。收到了緩件HQL-621，會好好送達的！」
COURIER xzkd UPDATE：Six hours before the start of our show, we were a bit confused, but then we saw the super Popol WUU ₍˄·͈༝·͈˄*₎◞ ̑̑，who asked us, what's the difference between you two twins? Actually we don't really know either. Received dispatch HQL-621, will deliver!
2024-08-01，20:08：
慢遞員波波爾午在抵達北京不到8個小時，已經遇到了兩位從天津來北京參加同一個音樂節的雙胞胎；接力準備中
Less than 8 hours after her arrival in Beijing, courier Popol WUU has already met two Tianjin residents (twins!) who are in Beijing for the same music festival; relay established
2024-08-01，13:47：
慢遞員波波爾午在絕食22小時後抵達北京，拒絕會剝削和出售預制菜的國營火車餐飲企業，她說：「不合理沒處發洩，只能懲罰自己，誰叫我出身在這個國家」；好餓，北京也很熱
COURIER Popol WUU arrives in Beijing after the 22-hour journey after a hunger strike in refusal of exploitative and pre-fabricated state-run train catering businesses; it's hot and hungry in Beijing
2024-07-31，12:25：
在她出發前往北京的當天，慢遞員波波爾午確認了 HQL-621 的派送情況，並為她在北京的「竹子什麼聲音！」工作坊做準備帶了兩捆新砍的竹子；她前一晚宿醉未醒，但勉強趕上了下午的列車
The day of her departure to Beijing, courier Popol WUU confirms about dispatch HQL-621 and brings it along with 2 bundles of freshly cut bamboo in preparation for her bambúsic workshop in Beijing; she is hungover from the previous night, but manages just barely to make her train in the afternoon
2024-07-18，10:30：
前一晚，慢遞員何子起得很晚，她趕緊收集了幾份快遞要帶到廣州，其中一份包括緩件HQL-621，諷刺的是，這份快遞是從大陸寄來的；到達後，她把所有的書都帶到了長洲島轉運中心，不確定誰可以接力，但有信心會成功；果然，長洲轉運中心的一位管理人和慢遞員波波爾午很快就會往北上參加一個音樂節和工作坊；轉運成立成功
COURIER naniko is up late the previous night and rushes to gather several dispatches together for bringing to Guangzhou, one of which includes HQL-621, ironically originating from the mainland; after arrival she brings all the books to the Changzhou Island Relay Centre, not sure of who may be able to relay but confident it will work out; sure enough, it turns out one of the Changzhou Relay Centre residents and courier Popol WUU will be travelling up north very soon for a music festival and workshop; relay established
河西區 Hexi District
慢遞員稻草人（徐子匡窮的一半）派送中 Courier SCARECROW, one half of xzkd, en route
哎呀，徐子匡窮慢遞隊的筆管魚受傷了，沒發派送 Courier CUTTLEFISH of the xzkd duo is injured and cannot make the final delivery, oh no!
稻草人派送成功，手中有握緩緩，筆管魚的灵魂在 ✌️ SCARECROW successfully completes delivery with a warm handover photo, CUTTLEFISH is present in spirit
路途中 En route
稻草人坐上返程天津地鐵拍筆管魚的圖片 SCARECROW takes a portrait of CUTTLEFISH on the metro on the way back to Tianjin
短信人肉搜索收件人 SMS human meat flesh search for RECEIVER
小店村 Xiaodian Village
慢遞員的接力場地 Handover site for dispatch HQL-621
攝影 PHOTO：xiao’zhi
朝陽區 Chaoyang District
到北京後第一頓飯是豬肘子 First meal in Beijing, pork elbow
還有一大顆大蒜 And a big piece of raw garlic
音樂節T恤 Music festival t-shirts
火車上 On the train
長洲島 Changzhou Island
「這個我要帶到北京嗎」 Confirming HQL-621
HQL-621和一捆竹子準備出發 HQL-621 and a bundle of bamboo ready for departure
2024-08-21，16:34：
慢遞員SAM與收件人在一個重要的日子在元朗地鐵站J出口閘口外碰面，交收成功；收件人說：「交收完畢，謝謝」，慢遞員說：「今天就多啲警察比較特別721日子」
COURIER SAM meets with RECEIVER on the coincidental anniversary day of an important incident at Yuen Long station; handover successful outside of the gates of exit J, and RECEIVER reports: "delivery complete, thank you"; SAM says: Today there were especially a lot of cops because of 21 July"
2024-08-19，10:05：
慢遞員SAM和收件人約好星期三下午五點鐘在元朗地鐵站交收
COURIER SAM makes an appointment with RECEIVER for a handover on Wednesday late afternoon 5:00 pm at the Yuen Long west rail MTR station
2024-08-07，晚飯後 after dinner：
如此接近，卻又如此遙遠......整整一個月都沒有人接從土瓜灣轉運中心派送到元朗的慢遞員，但一次與元朗居民的晚餐終於讓緩件號HQL-615再次出行；SAM一開始對為陌生人運送包裹有些警惕，但在詳細解釋了「後勤人肉」慢遞多麼荒謬又低效後，他同意成為緩件HQL-615的慢遞員；今晚回元朗
So close and yet so far... no availability for couriers to Yuen Long from the Tokwawan Relay Centre for a whole month, but a dinner date with a Yuen Long resident finally helps put dispatch HQL-615 on the move again; SAM is at first wary about carrying packages to strangers, but after a thorough explanation of the ridiculous inefficiency of LIGHT LOGISTICS, he is on board to be a courier for dispatch HQL-615; transferring to Yuen Long this evening
2024-07-05，下午 afternoon：
慢遞員大雨象乘坐跨境大巴搖晃入港，一如繼往，這緩件和過去的一樣站立在同一隻漫畫布袋中沿路旁聽。港鐵土瓜灣A出口，一月未見的土瓜灣轉運站慢遞員穿過人海面帶巴塞羅那的剩餘陽光，笑著走來。緩件HQL-615安全過關，等待轉運
Courier lß rocks into Hong Kong on a cross-border bus; as in the past, she carries dispatch HQL-615 in a tote bag with a manga illustration, ears open on the way. Arriving at MTR Tokwawan station exit A, it has been one month since her last handover to the Tokwawan Relay Centre, whose LOGISTICIAN walks through the crowd carrying bits of sunshine and a smile from previous Barcelona couriering duties; HQL-615 waiting in relay
2024-07-02，晚飯時間 dinner time：
慢遞員廣州姑婆從廣州市中心到達長洲島，和大雨象及幾位島友一同晚飯川菜，在煥然一新的長洲島轉運站小酒閒聊，深夜散去。緩件號HQL-615將在三天後由慢遞員大雨象帶去香港土瓜灣轉運站
Courier Guangzhou GUPO arrives from Guangzhou city centre to Changzhou Island and enjoys a meal of Szechuan food with courier lß and another friends of island; they chat and drank at the newly instated Changzhou Island Relay Centre before she returns home late at night; dispatch HQL-615 will be brought to the Tokwawan Relay Centre by courier lß in three days
2024-07-01，晚間 evening：
慢遞員廣州姑婆消息慢遞員大雨象：「你現在在哪😂」，大雨象看到消息時也許正在陽台面對這諾大城市的遠景，朝著在同城朋友的方向覺得這城市實在太大了
慢遞員大雨象回覆：「還在長洲島」。兩人相約明天在島上遞交對大雨象來說突然而來的遞送任務，並得此機會見面
Courier GUPO messages courier lß："Where are you now 😂", and when lß sees the message, she is most likely on a balcony looking at the view of this big city, in the direction towards her friend Guangzhou GUPO, messaging from the same city in another place; lß thinks that the city is really too big
COURIER lß replies："Still on Changzhou Island"; the two make plans to meet tomorrow for an out of the blue handover, but it is nice that they have the opportunity to meet each other
2024-08-19，12:31：
物流人員更正：「哈囉，啊囉哈，香港轉運站的確認，呵呵。事實上我們在這些書上犯了個錯誤！既然我們發出了錯誤的書慢遞，不如讓CHIRIS當 HQL-632新的收件人？！收件人你好，我們會試圖找到方式在其它時間派送一本『離開的舉措』給你，會一直幻想某天我們自己能來遞送...」
LOGISTICIAN CORRECTION：Halloo ahhlooo, just checking in from the Hong Kong relay centre, hehe! Actually we made a mistake with the book! Since we've dispatched the wrong book out, how about we let CHRIS become the new receiver of HQL-632 instead?! To RECEIVER, we will find a way to get you a copy of Acts of Departure another time, will keep dreaming we can courier it to your ourselves one day...
2024-08-16，22:37 UTC-05：
慢遞員CHRIS回覆：「嫑擔心！確實，我已經憂傷的走了！事實上我堵在了本森附近的高速上一個小時，因為一輛車起火了，我都沒有辦法返回去見你。12月或1月我有可能會有同樣的行程，也許到時候可以交接...」
COURIER CHRIS REPLY：No worries! Yes sadly I was past already! I was actually stuck on the freeway near Benson at a stand still for an hour because of a car fire so I couldn’t even turn around to meet you. I may be taking the same trip again in Dec/January so maybe we can make the handoff then…
2024-08-16，15:14 UTC-07：
收件人更新：「我覺得很失敗，因為我沒能早些回應。我以為CHRIS已經走了。抱歉！！想再確認一下送來的是我有的Resident Evil。我沒有『離開的舉措』。懸案一樁，我有點···算了。見鬼。」
RECEIVER UPDATE：I feel as if i failed because I didn’t respond earlier. And from what I understand CHRIS has already passed by. Apologies!! But just to confirm, yes it’s _Resident Evil_ that I have, right here next to me. I do not have Acts of Departure. The suspense built, and then I kinda….blew it. Drat.
2024-08-15，11:11 UTC-07：
慢遞員CHRIS更新：「嗨嗨！我在舊金山了！今晚回到亞利桑那，明天途徑圖森但最多只有一個小時，大概中午的時候會到達。你能告訴我聯繫方式讓我來安排碰面嗎？手機聯繫最好因為同時我也在轉運我的狗狗。希望能聯繫上！」
COURIER CHRIS UPDATE：Hihi! I’m in San Francisco! Will be in AZ tonight and have to drive thru Tucson tomorrow for only an hour max (likely around noonish I’ll be there) Could you let me know the contact so I can arrange a meet? Phone may be best as I’m also transporting my doggy as well. Let’s hope the connection works!
2024-08-12，20:12：
CHRIS和慢遞員paperbridgeee在九龍保密地點的私房菜(他們甚至都沒有運營許可)約了晚飯和交接緩件；轉運成功，新任即興慢遞員CHRIS還和paperbridgeee交會了一隻從聯邦商場而來的人質包
CHRIS meets with COURIER paperbridgeee for dinner and a handover at a private restaurant (they don't actually have a license to operate) in an undisclosed location in Kowloon; relay successful, and newly instated COURIER CHRIS also gifts paperbridgeee with a totebag from the Federal Store as hostage exchange
2024-08-08，晚上 evening：
一次充滿期待的在慢遞員paperbridgeee、CHRIS和易拎間的三方乒乓交接嘗試，來回在中環的全職工作、在美孚的家庭義務和一個在戴維斯山的新書談話後續在灣仔的生日趴之間，失敗了；緩件HQL-632在易拎的手中，可能無法碰上CHRIS；但在奇巧的機緣下，慢遞員paperbridgeee打算在下班後去到九龍，到達港島的西邊在地鐵匯合易拎，後者正從灣仔往東；第一次交接完成，paperbridgeee和CHRIS間的轉運，有待商榷
A hopeful attempt for a three-way summit between COURIERS paperbridgeee, CHRIS and PORTABLE fails amidst ping-ponging back and forth between a full-time job in Central, familial duties in Mei Foo, and a book talk at Mount Davis followed by a birthday party in Wanchai; dispatch HQL-632, currently in PORTABLE's hands, may not meet CHRIS after all; but in the most odd bit of serendipity, COURIER paperbridgeee, who had planned to head to Kowloon after work, ends up on the west side of Hong Kong island and runs into PORTABLE in the MTR station as the latter is headed east to Wanchai; a first handover takes place, with the next relay between paperbridgeee and CHRIS to be determined
2024-07-17，01:25：
慢遞員paperbridgeee，是CHRIS另一項事業的同謀，她幾年前介紹給CHRIS展銷場多彩的慢遞業務，但直到最近才有從加拿大經台灣再到香港的旋風計畫，還有在美國從舊金山到新奧爾良的公路之旅；當時對這將行的派送旅並沒有遇到合適的緩件，唯一可能的是帶件去CHRIS會路過一個小時的圖森；緊張的物流調送等待交接
COURIER paperbridgeee, a co-conspirator of CHRIS in another endeavour, introduced CHRIS to Display Distribute's wonderful world of LIGHT LOGISTICS some years ago, but it is only now during a whirlwind planned journey from Canada to Taiwan to Hong Kong, then to the US for a road trip from San Francisco to New Orleans; while the incoming leg of travel does not meet any matches for dispatches, there is one possible dispatch to bring to Tucson, where CHRIS will pass through for only one hour before continuing his journey; a suspenseful logistical maneuver awaits pick-up
杜蘭大學 Tulane University
「歡迎了包裹到草澤！」 Welcomed the package to the swamp!
SFO 機場
九龍 Kowloon
慢遞員paperbridgeee做慢遞員CHRIS的肖像 COURIER CHRIS portrait by COURIER paperbridgeee
地鐵 MTR
慢遞員易拎暈暈地碰到慢遞員paperbridgeee COURIER PORTABLE confusedly running into COURIER paperbridgeee
慢遞員葉子（1）報告：「我和她們倆在杭州的一個咖啡店見面，收件人和轉交的快遞員都剛好在杭州，所以我們就一起見面啦。很神奇的是轉交的慢遞員和我都叫葉子，收件人的微信叫tea for two，就奇妙的形成了『葉子遇見葉子』變成tea, for us！和葉子有好多共同的朋友，聊的很開心！」
COURIER YEZI (1) REPORT：I met YEZI and RECEIVER at a café in Hangzhou, the RECEIVER and initial relay COURIER YEZI both happen to be in Hangzhou now, so we decided to meet all together. It was quite amazing that the other relay courier is also named YEZI, and the RECEIVER's WeChat name is called "tea for two", and so our encounter became "YEZI meets YEZI" and then "tea, for us!" It turns out that YEZI and I have a lot of friends in common, and we had a really nice chat!
2024-07-26，10:21：
聯繫收件人，無論如何，得知收件人現在正在杭州而不在之前留下在東陽的收件地址；計畫已成，葉子依然會去碰面葉子，為有趣事
Upon contacting RECEIVER, however, it is learned that the RECEIVER is actually now in Hangzhou and not at their originally posted receiving address in Dongyang; plans are made, and YEZI will meet YEZI anyway for fun
2024-07-26，00:54：
不確定她是否能去東陽，之後的轉運從杭州開始，慢遞員葉子會連結另一個叫葉子的的轉運慢遞員。第二位葉子曾在深圳生活工作，是一個被迫結束的公共空間兼小書店的創辦者。希望她在杭州生活順利
Not sure if she'll be able to make it to Dongyang or not, a further relay is established in Hangzhou, and courier YEZI is hooked up with another relay courier named YEZI；This YEZI was live and work in Shenzhen, she opened a small bookstore and space which is forced closed. Hope that her life goes well in new city
2024-07-18，10:30：
慢遞員易拎昨晚熬夜並飛速地打包幾個緩件一起帶去廣州，其中包括好笑地本從廣州來的7本《馮火》雜誌的HQL-620；到達後她帶著所有書到達長洲島轉運站，雖不確定誰能來轉運，但自信可以找到辦法；當真是，一個曾是HQL-574慢遞員的來訪——葉子，證實這命運般巧合；葉子從阿姆斯特丹飛來作畢業後期修整，她在先返浙江家前途徑廣州拜訪朋友，計畫在8月6號到10號間出發；轉運創線
COURIER PORTABLE is up late the previous night and rushes to gather several dispatches together for bringing to Guangzhou, some of which include HQL-620's 7 copies of Fong Fo, ironically originating from Guangzhou; after arrival she brings all the books to the Changzhou Island Relay Centre, not sure of who may be able to relay but confident it will work out; sure enough, a visit from previous HQL-574 courier YEZI proves to be coincidentally fateful; YEZI has flown in from Amsterdam and take a post-graduation break, and she passes over her hometown in Zhejiang Province to visit friends in Guangzhou first, but plans to head back between the 6th and 10th of August; relay established
工聯CC Mall
碰頭沒在西餐、重慶菜和泰國菜中，爾去了時尚的咖啡館😂 A handover in Cáfe M Stand
麗水 Lishui
貴州 Guizhou
貴州安順 Anshun, Guizhou
貴州安順 Anshun, Guizhou
貴州貴陽 Guiyang, Guizhou
貴州好吃的 Good eats in Guizhou
成都 Chengdu
深圳 Shenzhen
越秀 Yuexiu District
長洲島 Changzhou Island
慢遞員葉子準備坐摩托車到浙江嗎？ Will courier YEZI go to Zhejiang Province by trendy scooter?
長洲島管理員小阿納期貓咪交接成功 Changzhou Island Relay Centre LOGISTICIAN Little Anarchy hands over to sleepy courier YEZI
Hello,
I just wanted to thank you—I met up with the courier and picked up the book earlier tonight!
I appreciate the time and logistical effort it took to get it to me—it's an incredible accomplishment considering the route the book took across multiple years and multiple continents. I'm really sincerely grateful to you, and to everybody else who was involved!
2024-08-15，09:14 UTC-07：
慢遞員BROMP TREB和收件人取得聯繫，告知他旅行的原因：他的樂團先在Santa Cruz進行小型巡迴之後再往北在奧克蘭的Tamarack演出；收件人很樂意從三藩市到奧克蘭回合；暫定約在下午6點左右，在樂團的閒晃、閒逛、卸貨、佈置、試音等等期間。(如果你不喜歡瘋狂嘈雜的即興搖滾，我也想給你一個清場的機會，所以你不會覺得有壓力去看演出，哈哈）
COURIER BROMP TREB gets in touch with RECEIVER, informing about the reason for his travel, a mini-tour with his band Muscle Beach first in Santa Cruz, then at Tamarack in Oakland; RECEIVER is happy to travel from San Francisco to Oakland, and a tentative appointment is made for around 6pm, during the band's hangout, goof-off, unload, set-up, soundcheck, etc. (also i wanted to give u a clean out if crazy noisy improvised rock isn't your thing, so u wont feel pressured to check out the show haha)
2024-08-15，22:05 UTC-07：
慢遞員BROMP TREB更新：「就在 [取書] 之後，我參加每週一次的LAWWSS（洛杉磯木管樂技巧分享）聚會，這是一個沒有階級之分的木管樂學習活動；之後我去了在Leroy's(洛杉磯舊唐人街一家廢棄越南餐廳內的藝術家空間/畫廊/工作室) 舉行的LAWWSS的會」
COURIER BROMP TREB UPDATE：After my k-town rendezvous and book pickup, i then went to my weekly LAWWSS (Los Angeles WoodWind SkillShare), meeting, a non hierarchical woodwind learning effort at Leroy’s (an artists space/gallery/studios in an an abandoned Vietnamese restaurant in LA’s old chinatown)
2024-08-14，19:10 UTC-07：
慢遞員PFEIFER先生更新：「我們完成了交接，這本書也交到了好人的手上，真不敢相信這兩年的旅程就要結束了。在韓國超市的屋頂上，當有人建議在洛杉磯約會的地點時，正確的反應是，「停車場的情況如何？在K-Town，唯一有像樣泊車條件的地方就是超市」；等待16號奧克蘭轉運
COURIER Mr. PFEIFER UPDATE：We made the exchange and the book is in good hands. I can’t believe this two year journey is coming to an end. Yes, on the roof of a Korean market. When someone suggests a place to meet in LA, the proper response is, “what’s the parking situation?”. When in K-Town, the only place with a decent parking situation are the markets.; awaiting relay to Oakland on 16 August
2024-08-12，08:08 UTC-07：
慢遞員PFEIFER先生更新：「我想我們可以在K-Town交接了。我和這本神秘的書一起生活了兩年，沒想到結局來得這麼快。照片會被拍下來的，會流眼淚。也希望可以頒發獎項。」即將到達的接力慢遞員BROMP TREB呼應：「太棒了！我很高興能把這本緩慢的書派送給下一位讀者」
COURIER Mr. PFEIFER UPDATE：I think we’re set for a K-Town exchange. I’ve lived with this mysterious book for 2 years. I didn’t see the end coming this quickly. Pics will be taken. Tears will be shed. And hopefully awards will be awarded. Imminent relay courier BROMP TREB chimes in: Amazing! So happy i can ferry this slow book to its next reader
2024-07-29，23:35 UTC-07：
在幾個月或幾年之前，與收件人取得聯繫，雙方同意尋找從洛杉磯到三藩市中繼慢遞員，但直到994天、10小時、5分鐘，以及更多分鐘的計算，才終於找到一位慢遞員；新招募的Bromp Treb先生將與他的樂團從洛杉磯出發，於8月16 日在聖塔克魯茲演出，「接下來的17號晚上，我會到海灣地區，當晚會在奧克蘭演出......我希望能在8月16日當天的某個時間，到奧克蘭交接；轉運渠道建立成功
Months or years before, contact was established with RECEIVER, and a mutual agreement made to look for relay couriers between LA and San Francisco, but it is not until 994 days, 10 hours, 5 minutes, and more minutes counting that a courier is finally found; newly recruited Mr. Bromp Treb will be travelling from LA to Santa Cruz on 16 August to play drums with a band called Muscle Beach for a little tour "and then the following night the 17th I will be in the Bay area and will be playing in Oakland that night… I am hoping that I might be able to do the hand-off sometime during that day to Oakland on 16 August; relay established
2022-11-04，09:57 UTC-07：
慢遞員PFEIFER先生更新：七個月後，「書還在這裡！在書架上過著舒適的生活，旁邊有一塊石頭、一些香、博爾赫斯和一個理察·普萊斯。剛從COVID癮中恢復過來。過了兩年半的清白生活，然後就 「砰 」的一聲，一下子就被打敗了。我接種了所有疫苗，但剛從東部回來，一定是在飛機上或機場感染的。真不好玩。」
COURIER Mr. PFEIFER UPDATE：Seven months later, "The book is still here! Living a cosy life on the shelf next to a rock, some incense, Borges, and a Richard Price. Just getting over COVID. Two and a half years living clean and then boom. Put me on my ass. Fully vaccinated and boosted but just took a trip back east and must have contracted it on the plane or airport. Was not fun."
2022-04-14，11:56 UTC-07：
慢遞員PFEIFER先生更新：「我和M約了星期三（昨天）見面，但是後來一整天都沒有她的消息；前一天（星期二）她以為是星期三給我發了短信，但我那天都沒在家；所以只能再想Plan B啦」
COURIER Mr. PFEIFER UPDATE：M and I agreed to meet on Wednesday (yesterday), but I didn't hear from her all day; at one point she texted me on Tuesday, thinking it was Wednesday, but I wasn't home all day; so yeah, on to Plan B for the delivery I think
2022-04-07，11:38 UTC-07：
慢遞員M小姐更新：「很抱歉沒有取書讓大家困惑了；租車的時候出了一些問題，到我能解決的時候就立刻要離開洛杉磯；4月12-17日我還是會回去，等我明確了日程再跟你聯繫；我重新安排了旅行先回洛杉磯再去三藩市，到時候可以跟你拿書：）」
COURIER Ms. M UPDATE：I am so sorry for the confusion and for not picking up the book; I had some trouble that in the car rental and by the time I sorted it out I had to leave LA immediately; I am coming back to LA between the 12th till the 17th of April; once I know exactly when I will contact you; I have rearranged my trip to go back to LA then San Francisco, so I can take the book ：）
2022-04-02，09:55 UTC-07：
慢遞員PFEIFER先生更新：「沒收到M的消息！希望她週末會跟我聯繫」
COURIER Mr. PFEIFER UPDATE：Never heard from M! Hopefully she'll reach out this weekend
2022-03-29，13:32 UTC-08：
來接力的新慢遞員M小姐聯繫PFEIFER先生：「Joe，你4月1號大概下午12點半到兩點的時候會在你家附近的話，我可以路過跟你取書」
New relay courier Ms. M contacts Mr. PFEIFER: Joe, if you are around your area of residence on April 1st from around 12:30 to 2 pm, I can pass by and pick up the book from you
2022-02-24，17:25 UTC-08：
慢遞員PFEIFER先生成功接力
Successfully transferred to courier Mr. PFEIFER in Hollywood
2022-02-23，22:27 UTC-08：
Before Mr. PARKS departs from Williams, Arizona, he goes to a Route 66 themed diner there. In the study of literature, there is an oft discussed trope of unreliable narrators. It is also sort of an implicit category of talk therapy, in the post-Freudian tradition. Most psychologists feel professionally obligated to not assume their client is a reliable narrator. The courier wonders how such an orientation might influence the patient's own sense of self, somewhat destructively, albeit innocuously so. Within his role as courier he wonders about the equivalent role for writing the logistics log, but here the unreliability would not emphasize narration in general but appropriate logistics log narration in particular. Williams Arizona is 60 miles south of the southern rim of Grand Canyon. The courier departed Williams Arizona finally at 12:05 pm. He drives somewhat slowly in his small car. He takes a long break outside 29 Palms at a pizzeria called $5 pizza from 8:15 to 9:12. As he ascends the mountains of San Bernardino National Forest towards Big Bear City, the courier begins to realize that he is actually ascending into a treacherous blizzard, snaking along windy snowy, slippery roads. Impossible at a certain point to turn back, the courier both embraces the extreme sport quality, and quietly begs for mercy from the forces of nature, under his breath cursing wimpishly — finding a practical balance between gameful bravado on one hand, and cowardly groveling before forces of nature on the other. He does not feel unreliable, in the sense of exaggerating the sense of danger he felt, for if anything its reality is a bit under articulated here. He accepts he is unreliable, of course, since as far as he knows all these bits of information are completely irrelevant to the actual task of logistics. He arrives in Big Bear at 9:43. He watches coverage of the storm on Los Angeles local news. He decides to stay an extra day in Big Bear City, hoping the descent from the mountain on Thursday is less terrifying. He plans to meet the next courier in Los Angeles between 3pm and 4pm. Six accumulative hours of HGTV and "Shark Tank" later Wednesday night, the courier keeps the TV on, only reducing volume slightly, approaching sleep in preparation for early Thursday morning departure.
2022-02-22，14:25 UTC-08：
下一個過夜休息站：大熊湖6號汽車旅館
Next overnight rest stop: Big Bear Lake Motel 6
Receive item to be delivered by courier in Santa Fe, at parking lot of Santa Fe Art Institute. Courier is not well versed in language of logistics, so during his courier route towards the destination in California, he reflects on what might to suitable to record in the log once he arrives at his motel later and has time to complete a record. He was just telling his friend, one of the logisticians who set this project in motion, that he was interested in the ongoing relevance in art of appropriating formats and frameworks rather then some simplistic pedagogical fixation on the elementary art historical tic associating appropriation and objects as such. And then, that logistician, hands him a collaborative assignment in line with that interest, but already in this log he has deviated so far from emulating the language of logistics! So he assume the quota of allowed deviating, towards a non-logistical reflective log has lapsed too far even already. Other facts: the courier's car had new rear tires, stabilizing the next leg of the drive. The drive from Santa Fe, to a pet friendly motel in Williams Arizona was extremely windy. The car was a Smart car. The courier listened to conservative radio periodically. Since he, the courier, never hears about other left-leaning people, eaves dropping on right wing media strategies by listening to their radio, he thought he should mention that in this log. But not in the same depth as the courier thought, when he was driving. Along course of that leg of drive, many interesting things were discussed on the radio program of "Fresh Air" on the regional NPR broadcast and on the conservative radio programs, the courier listened to. If the editor of this log were to deem additional description as relevant, the courier has planned to make note of the subjects discussed in a separate log in greater detail. The courier is surprised to find himself concerned that current US president Biden may look weak as a statesmen in military contexts of international conflict. The courier had never imagined himself as advocating for demonstrations of military competence. Having been a teenager in the 90s, the courier is relieved to scan to a radio station playing Smashing Pumpkins, which seems to be such a majestic reprieve from the right wing media's predictable and possibly accurate estimation that Biden is a weak, risk averse president, in a moment where the Russian invasion of Ukraine seems imminent. The root meanings of words isn't a strong dimension of the courier's intellectual formation, but he assumes logos is root meaning in both logistics and ideology. The Smashing Pumpkins radio station announces itself using the passe, the courier assumed, or at best nostalgic, moniker he couldn't accurately remember aside from the word "alternative." Earlier in the day he had been wondering about the viability of drawing on 90s branding of alternatives, in order to advocate for alternative independent social media platforms in the current epoch. The courier imagines such a plug for that hypothetical trend could be a more forward thinking way to end his already deviated anyway reflective log. Landscape shifted from Santa Fe building code enforced pueblo style architecture, in Santa Fe, to then actually driving through Navajo indigenous reservations. At a gas station within reservation the courier noticed a Navajo publication, but did not purchase.
此缓件是緩件號HQL-431的分支派送
This is a branch dispatch of HQL-431
奧克蘭 Oakland
路途中 En route
韓國城 K-Town
PFEIFER先生拍BROMP TREB BROMP TREB by Mr. PFEIFER
BROMP TREB拍PFEIFER先生 Mr. PFEIFER by BROMP TREB
「這些是我在K城會面和取書之後一起玩的一群朋友，我想更多地瞭解他們，並讓他們與我之前取的神秘包裹合影」 These are a group of friends i was hanging out with right after my K-town rendezvous and book pickup wanted to know more about and get their picture with the mysterious package that i picked up earlier
「萬一你有好奇，這是我的樂隊」 in case yr wondering, this is the band im in
洛杉磯 Los Angeles
慢遞員PFEIFER先生成功接力 Successfully transferred to courier Mr. PFEIFER in Hollywood
2024-08-12，14:01：
收件人更新：「我剛在中國，離開上海去首爾了 [...] 我還想要書！！九月初會再去紐約」
RECEIVER UPDATE：I was just in China, we just left Shanghai for Seoul [...] Yes still would love the book!! I’ll be in NYC early Sept again
2024-07-12，15:06 UTC-04：
慢遞員CHARIS終於抵達她的送貨目的地，位於下東區的Bungee Space，但不幸的是收件人S今天不在；取而代之的是，她與S的同事T會面，並享受「一場愉快的長談，他們還特別為我調製了番石榴咖啡飲料，這正是夏日午後應該喝的甜咸清爽飲料」；緩件號HQL-613派送成功， 另外HQL-612、HQL-611和HQL-610等待轉運
COURIER CHARIS finally makes it to her delivery destination at Bungee Space on the Lower East Side, but unfortunately RECEIVER S is not there; instead, she meets with T, the colleague of S, and enjoys "a lovely long chat and they made me a special guava coffee drink, which is exactly the kind of sweet and salty refreshing thing to have on a summer afternoon"; delivery of dispatch HQL-613 now complete, and HQL-612, HQL-610, and HQL-611 in relay
Hi dear S,
Thanks for asking about coming today but I won’t be able to make it as a friend unexpectedly popped into Brooklyn. I’m thinking about Wednesday or Friday next week. Would you mind telling me when you won’t be in (or will be) whichever is easier to convey?
Everything is well in New York, my days have been mostly catching up with friends and walking lazily around. Letting the summer heat slow my routine and mind down. Here’s a photo of the shop cat at Quimby’s in Williamsburg where I bought an armful of zines.
I'm writing you from the Hong Kong International Airport now. Excited to be in New York and excited to see the drop-off location Bungee Space and to meet you, S! Thanks for your welcome. I'm thinking right now of coming by on Friday, July 5, if that works for you.
It's funny, when I offered to courier some books from Hong Kong to New York, I didn't know or have any assumptions as to what the books would be. I actually own a copy of Acts of Departure but haven't read it yet and left it in my office at school by the time I picked up the books.
So on Saturday afternoon I wound up deciding to go to Art and Culture Outreach to acquire another copy to bring with me on the plane to read. I was planning on swinging by to buy some books for other friends. I've been feeling anxiety about this long flight (not having done such a long flight since 2020 at the start of the pandemic) and thought perhaps the book's company and the synchronicity with the dispatch would bring me comfort.
Below are images and captions of the journey so far.
Take care,
Charis
2024-06-30，22:10 UTC-04：
與收件人建立聯繫，她說：「感謝這次遞送。我很期待與妳見面並進行交談！Bungee Space 週一休息。其它時間的營業時間為上午11:00至下午7:30。我們也很樂意充當臨時轉運站，也請通知其他接收方我們的開放時間，謝謝！」
Contact established with RECEIVER, who writes: "Thank you for making this delivery. I am looking forward to meeting you in person and having a chat! Bungee Space is closed on Mondays. We are open from 11AM to 7:30PM on all other days. We are also happy to serve as a temporary relay centre. Please also notify the receivers about our opening hours, thanks!"
2024-06-27，17:42：
經過快速的攬件安排，慢遞員CHARIS夠取走大量慢遞件： HQL-610、611、612 和 613，全部前往紐約地區；她這次是臨時決定的行程，會停留兩周；『展銷場』先安排在曼哈頓下城的一個收件地點，希望不給CHARIS太大方便
After very quick meeting arrangements, courier CHARIS is able to pick up a great number of dispatches: HQL-610, 611, 612, and 613, all headed for the New York City metropolitan area; it was a last-minute arranged trip, and she will stay for two weeks, but arrangements for a single drop-off point in Lower Manhattan hope to keep it easy enough
2024-06-25，14:47：
一個朋友的朋友跟展銷場聯絡：「你好！我7月1號飛往紐約，JC跟我講你們有可能需要幫忙慢遞一些東西過去？跟我說一下！我可以帶大概10-12公斤的東西，行李額夠多」
A friend of a friend gets in touch with Display Distribute： Hi! I’m flying to NY on 1 July and JC mentioned to me that perhaps you would find it helpful if I couriered some things over? Let me know! I could carry about a duffel bag worth of things up to 10-12 kg, as I have quite a lot of baggage allowance
下東區 Lower East Side
牽動的手，我們慢步Soho-百老匯，在春天右轉，在包厘街北，於史坦頓右 Holding hands, we walk slowly through Soho—up Broadway, turn right on Spring, north on Bowery, and a right on Stanton.
T和我津津有味地聊「離開的舉措」和後勤慢遞，Bungee空間以及出版。我細覽所有書籍，T推薦我留意一些特別選集。當我們聊，T問我喝不喝特調，我說接受一切。T做了番石榴果義式濃縮和棕櫚糖特調。我真是幸運。 T and I enthusiastically chat about Acts of Departure and LIGHT LOGISTICS and Bungee Space and publishing. I peruse all the books and T recommends I pay particular attention to some specific sections. As we chat, T asks if they can make me a drink and I say I’ll have anything you’d like to make. T makes this guava juice, espresso, and palm sugar concoction. I feel lucky.
布鲁克林 Brooklyn
威廉斯堡：在遠離讀書人和小誌買家的世界中酣睡 Williamsburg：Soundly asleep in a world away from the book-readers and zine-buyers
波恩兰姆小丘：一些倒時差，每個早上醒來，閱讀，然後可能又睡去。在朋友的公寓裡讀關於女性間的友誼，這綑綁的加固依靠於我們選擇所言說的和如何說。「離開的舉措」，我讀完了。 Boerum Hill：A bit jetlagged, I wake up each morning and read and then perhaps fall asleep again. In my friend’s flat I read about friendship between women and the way these ties can be strengthened depending on what we choose to say and how we say it. I finish Acts of Departure.
緩件伴旅。我們同乘D火車，我指出在我們左邊的布魯克林大橋和曼哈頓下城的天際線。 I carry my dispatches with me like travelling with a companion. We take the D train together and I point out the Brooklyn Bridge to our left and the skyline of lower Manhattan.
路途中 En route
在香港國際機場26號登機口對面回復慢遞郵件，等待14:45飛往東京的航班，之後將轉機飛往肯尼迪機場 Responding to LIGHT LOGISTICS e-mail at the Hong Kong International Airport, waiting across from gate 26 for my flight at 14:45 to Tokyo, after which I will transfer to fly to JFK
我在從香港到東京的飛機上讀「離開的舉措」。對我來說有同時性的是歸因於邊界和交叉處的第一封給
D的信，我也有同樣的舉措。真的，讀這書的整體感受都像對我自己生活的注腳：自2020年當我打算移居首次去到美國，一個於疫情中期和香港的改變時定下的計畫。 I read Acts of Departure on the flight from Hong Kong to Tokyo. The first letter to D refers to borders and crossing and this feels like synchronicity to me, in accord with my own actions. Actually, the book as a whole feels to me like I’m adding footnotes to my own life: visiting the States for the first time since I went in 2020 when I was planning to relocate, a plan I put aside in the midst of the pandemic and changes in Hong Kong.
我在肯尼迪機場的海關警戒處排隊等待了2小時，當那裡反覆出現禁用手機標示開始一直在閱讀。第二頁段落的圖示說“信件可以通過海底電纜和電磁波跨越地球，以極其不滿可還實際的方式聯結我們。”是的，我飛向紐約的理由是，只是傳訊和打電話給我的朋友們已經不再充分，我們需要同在一個房間裡。 I wait for 2 hours in the queue at Customs and Border Protection at the John F. Kennedy Airport, reading most of the time since there are repeated signs to not use phones. The paragraph on the second page pictured here says, “a letter can cross the planet via ocean cables and electromagnetic waves that connect us in the most unsatisfying yet practical ways.” This is really the reason I flew to New York, it wasn’t sufficient to message and call my friend anymore, we needed to be in a room together.
灣仔 Wanchai
「上灣仔富德樓的電梯到14樓的艺鵠書店」 Going up the lift to Art and Culture Outreach on the 14th floor of Foo Tak Building in Wan Chai
找到《離開的舉動》在艺鵠書店的書架上
Finding Acts of Departure on the shelf at ACO
《離開的舉動》在我買到的其它書之間：送給 J 的《大山與人》、給 Z 的《光榮結業》和給自己的《Something Close to Music》 Acts of Departure sandwiched with the other books I bought: Driving Lantau for J, 光榮結業 for Z, and Something Close to Music for myself
HQL-610、611、612和613跟我的衣服還有好多從Don Don Donki給朋友買的零食放到行李箱 Packing HQL-610, 611, 612, and 613 along with my clothes and many snacks from Don Don Donki for friends
2024-08-10，17:37 UTC-04：
收件人通過IG story通知已從Bungee Space收到HQL-610，雖然晚了一個多星期，但是特別成功
RECEIVER sends an Instagram story notification of receiving her package a Bungee Space, a week later than expected but still successful nonetheless
2024-07-24，10:10 UTC-04：
收件人更新：「很樂意到Bungee Space領取我的書。我下週過去，大概星期三下午。期待與《離開的舉動》重逢」
RECEIVER UPDATE：I'm happy to pick up my book at Bungee Space. I will stop by next week, perhaps Wednesday afternoon. Looking forward to my reunion with Acts of Departure
2024-07-12，15:06 UTC-04：
慢遞員CHARIS終於抵達她的送貨目的地，位於下東區的 Bungee Space，但不幸的是收件人S今天不在；取而代之的是，她與S的同事T會面，並享受「一場愉快的長談，他們還特別為我調製了番石榴咖啡飲料，這正是夏日午後應該喝的甜咸清爽飲料」；緩件號HQL-613派送成功， 另外HQL-610、HQL-611和HQL-612等待轉運
COURIER CHARIS finally makes it to her delivery destination at Bungee Space on the Lower East Side, but unfortunately RECEIVER S is not there; instead, she meets with T, the colleague of S, and enjoys "a lovely long chat and they made me a special guava coffee drink, which is exactly the kind of sweet and salty refreshing thing to have on a summer afternoon"; delivery of dispatch HQL-613 now complete, and HQL-610, HQL-611, and HQL-612 in relay
Hi dear S,
Thanks for asking about coming today but I won’t be able to make it as a friend unexpectedly popped into Brooklyn. I’m thinking about Wednesday or Friday next week. Would you mind telling me when you won’t be in (or will be) whichever is easier to convey?
Everything is well in New York, my days have been mostly catching up with friends and walking lazily around. Letting the summer heat slow my routine and mind down. Here’s a photo of the shop cat at Quimby’s in Williamsburg where I bought an armful of zines.
I'm writing you from the Hong Kong International Airport now. Excited to be in New York and excited to see the drop-off location Bungee Space and to meet you, S! Thanks for your welcome. I'm thinking right now of coming by on Friday, July 5, if that works for you.
It's funny, when I offered to courier some books from Hong Kong to New York, I didn't know or have any assumptions as to what the books would be. I actually own a copy of Acts of Departure but haven't read it yet and left it in my office at school by the time I picked up the books.
So on Saturday afternoon I wound up deciding to go to Art and Culture Outreach to acquire another copy to bring with me on the plane to read. I was planning on swinging by to buy some books for other friends. I've been feeling anxiety about this long flight (not having done such a long flight since 2020 at the start of the pandemic) and thought perhaps the book's company and the synchronicity with the dispatch would bring me comfort.
Below are images and captions of the journey so far.
Take care,
Charis
2024-06-30，22:10 UTC-04：
與收件人建立聯繫，她說：「感謝這次遞送。我很期待與妳見面和聊天！Bungee Space 週一休息。其它的營業時間為上午11:00至下午7:30。我們也很樂意充當臨時轉運站，也請通知其他接收方我們的開放時間，謝謝！」
Contact established with RECEIVER, who writes: "Thank you for making this delivery. I am looking forward to meeting you in person and having a chat! Bungee Space is closed on Mondays. We are open from 11AM to 7:30PM on all other days. We are also happy to serve as a temporary relay centre. Please also notify the receivers about our opening hours, thanks!"
2024-06-27，17:42：
經過快速的攬件安排，慢遞員CHARIS取走大量慢遞件： HQL-610、HQL-611
、HQL-612
和 HQL-613
，全部前往紐約市市區；這次是她臨時決定的行程，會停留兩周；『展銷場』先安排在曼哈頓下城的一個收件地點，希望給CHARIS多些方便
After very quick meeting arrangements, courier CHARIS is able to pick up and great number of dispatches: HQL-610, HQL-611
, HQL-612
, and HQL-613
, all headed for the New York City metropolitan area; it was a last-minute arranged trip, and she will stay for two weeks, but arrangements for a single drop-off point in Lower Manhattan hope to keep it easy enough
2024-06-25，14:47：
一個朋友的朋友跟展銷場聯絡：「你好！我7月1號飛往紐約，JC跟我講你們有可能需要幫忙慢遞一些東西過去？跟我說一下！我可以帶大概10-12公斤的東西，行李額夠多」
A friend of a friend gets in touch with Display Distribute： Hi! I’m flying to NY on 1 July and JC mentioned to me that perhaps you would find it helpful if I couriered some things over? Let me know! I could carry about a duffel bag worth of things up to 10-12 kg, as I have quite a lot of baggage allowance
下東區 Lower East Side
牽動的手，我們慢步Soho-百老匯，在春天右轉，在包厘街北，於史坦頓右 Holding hands, we walk slowly through Soho—up Broadway, turn right on Spring, north on Bowery, and a right on Stanton.
T和我津津有味地聊「離開的舉措」和後勤慢遞，Bungee空間以及出版。我細覽所有書籍，T推薦我留意一些特別選集。當我們聊，T問我喝不喝特調，我說接受一切。T做了番石榴果義式濃縮和棕櫚糖特調。我真是幸運。 T and I enthusiastically chat about Acts of Departure and LIGHT LOGISTICS and Bungee Space and publishing. I peruse all the books and T recommends I pay particular attention to some specific sections. As we chat, T asks if they can make me a drink and I say I’ll have anything you’d like to make. T makes this guava juice, espresso, and palm sugar concoction. I feel lucky.
收件人取好件 RECEIVER pick up good
布鲁克林 Brooklyn
威廉斯堡：在遠離讀書人和小誌買家的世界中酣睡 Williamsburg：Soundly asleep in a world away from the book-readers and zine-buyers
波恩兰姆小丘：一些倒時差，每個早上醒來，閱讀，然後可能又睡去。在朋友的公寓裡讀關於女性間的友誼，這綑綁的加固依靠於我們選擇所言說的和如何說。「離開的舉措」，我讀完了。 Boerum Hill：A bit jetlagged, I wake up each morning and read and then perhaps fall asleep again. In my friend’s flat I read about friendship between women and the way these ties can be strengthened depending on what we choose to say and how we say it. I finish Acts of Departure.
緩件伴旅。我們同乘D火車，我指出在我們左邊的布魯克林大橋和曼哈頓下城的天際線。 I carry my dispatches with me like travelling with a companion. We take the D train together and I point out the Brooklyn Bridge to our left and the skyline of lower Manhattan.
路途中 En route
在香港國際機場26號登機口對面回復慢遞郵件，等待14:45飛往東京的航班，之後將轉機飛往肯尼迪機場 Responding to LIGHT LOGISTICS e-mail at the Hong Kong International Airport, waiting across from gate 26 for my flight at 14:45 to Tokyo, after which I will transfer to fly to JFK
我在從香港到東京的飛機上讀「離開的舉措」。對我來說有同時性的是歸因於邊界和交叉處的第一封給
D的信，我也有同樣的舉措。真的，讀這書的整體感受都像對我自己生活的注腳：自2020年當我打算移居首次去到美國，一個於疫情中期和香港的改變時定下的計畫。 I read Acts of Departure on the flight from Hong Kong to Tokyo. The first letter to D refers to borders and crossing and this feels like synchronicity to me, in accord with my own actions. Actually, the book as a whole feels to me like I’m adding footnotes to my own life: visiting the States for the first time since I went in 2020 when I was planning to relocate, a plan I put aside in the midst of the pandemic and changes in Hong Kong.
我在肯尼迪機場的海關警戒處排隊等待了2小時，當那裡反覆出現禁用手機標示開始一直在閱讀。第二頁段落的圖示說“信件可以通過海底電纜和電磁波跨越地球，以極其不滿可還實際的方式聯結我們。”是的，我飛向紐約的理由是，只是傳訊和打電話給我的朋友們已經不再充分，我們需要同在一個房間裡。 I wait for 2 hours in the queue at Customs and Border Protection at the John F. Kennedy Airport, reading most of the time since there are repeated signs to not use phones. The paragraph on the second page pictured here says, “a letter can cross the planet via ocean cables and electromagnetic waves that connect us in the most unsatisfying yet practical ways.” This is really the reason I flew to New York, it wasn’t sufficient to message and call my friend anymore, we needed to be in a room together.
灣仔 Wanchai
「上灣仔富德樓的電梯到14樓的艺鵠書店」 Going up the lift to Art and Culture Outreach on the 14th floor of Foo Tak Building in Wan Chai
找到《離開的舉動》在艺鵠書店的書架上
Finding Acts of Departure on the shelf at ACO
《離開的舉動》在我買到的其它書之間：送給 J 的《大山與人》、給 Z 的《光榮結業》和給自己的《Something Close to Music》 Acts of Departure sandwiched with the other books I bought: Driving Lantau for J, 光榮結業 for Z, and Something Close to Music for myself
HQL-610、611、612和613跟我的衣服還有好多從Don Don Donki給朋友買的零食放到行李箱 Packing HQL-610, 611, 612, and 613 along with my clothes and many snacks from Don Don Donki for friends
I just got the book and the Toronto package! （<-- pls send me info about that one when you can：））This morning we met up at KAT's fave place in Chinatown for yummy rice rolls and congee. A super humid day in nyc!
So excited to read the book after hearing about it from KAT, too — but I'll enjoy admiring your packaging for another day before opening it haha. KAT, thank you again for bringing it to me, and for the lovely breakfast :) I loved chatting with you!
Y and I met in Chinatown and had a late breakfast together — we talked organizing & art & making things. I handed off the packages and am so excited for her to read _The Last Emporium_, which I started on my flight from Tokyo to NYC.
2024-08-04，22:27：
慢遞員KAT慢遞第二發：
今天早些，我去到和合石看望我婆婆的墓。整個夏天我都在為此焦慮，用我糟糕的粵語盡力穩當地編造創新的藉口（我要如何告訴出租車我要去哪兒？我怎麼能精確找到那墓？），加上我姨媽僅能和她母親證實的有限又極少量的訊息：她去逝的年份，她的名字。我姨媽上次去掃墓是在1969年，在她離開香港去美國前。長大過程中我唯一知道的是我婆婆在我媽只有四歲的時候去逝，因為子宮癌。姨媽跟我講，每一次她和我母親和她們的兄弟去完公墓，我母親就會生病。當他們爬公墓那巨大的山，她能“擺脫她身體裡的一切”，我姨媽這樣說，意思是我母親她吐了。這是我聽說的我母親的童年故事之一；她在我青春期時死了。這往事總是困擾著我，直到我自己走在和合石橋頭路上，流著汗並感到恐慌，企圖向任何人尋求幫助。這不只是小山丘，他們得爬上一座真正大山的山頂。我熟知這般比喻。
COURIER KAT 2nd DISPATCH：
Earlier today, I went to Wo Hop Shek cemetery to look for my po po’s grave. I’d been anxious about this all summer, inventing creative excuses that mostly centered on my bad Cantonese (how will I tell the taxi where to go? How will I ask for help locating the grave?) and the limited amount of information my Yi Ma could provide about her mother: the year she died, and her name. The last time my Yi Ma saw the grave was in 1969, before she left Hong Kong for the States. The only thing I knew growing up about my Po Po was that she died when my mom was only four, from uterine cancer. My Yi Ma told me a story about how every time she and my mother and their brothers visited the cemetery, my mother would become sick. As they climbed the giant hills of the cemetery, she would “get rid of everything in her body,” my Yi Ma put it, meaning she vomited. This was one of the few things I’d heard about my mother’s childhood; she died when I was a teenager. This story always confused me, until I found myself walking the grounds of one of the Wo Hop Shek Columbariums, sweating and feeling panicky and looking for anybody to ask for help. These were not hills; this was an actual mountain they had to summit. The metaphor was not lost on me.
A man named Ricky in one of the offices helped me; this caption is getting long, so I’ll just skip ahead to the part where, sweating into the paper he printed off for me of my (maybe) Po Po’s grave, I hailed yet another taxi per his instructions to take me up the winding hills of the cemetery into some of the oldest sections.
An hour later, weaving in and out of the rows of gravestones on the hillsides, I had found my Po Po.
(Calling my Yi Ma afterward to tell her about this — me talking with my limited Cantonese and her with her limited English — felt like this summer was exactly as it should have been. Any guilt I had for not “writing enough” or “learning enough Cantonese” or “watching too much Sex in the City” (???What??? I don’t know either) had evaporated.)
2024-08-03，around 16:30：
速遞員KAT和緩件號HQL-610至 613的慢遞員CHARIS一樣，是由JC向『展銷場』人肉慢遞網絡推薦的；在與大埔的一隻可愛的貓咪共住兩個月後，她順道到土瓜灣轉運站取HQL-628和HQL-631，然後在下周返回華盛頓特區的家，其間會去紐約探望幾天朋友
Courier KAT has, like courier CHARIS of dispatches HQL-610 to 613, been recommended to the LIGHT LOGISTICS network by JC; toward the tail end of a 2-month sojourn with a cuddly cat in Tai Po, she drops by the Tokwawan Relay Centre to pick up dispatches HQL-628 and HQL-631 before heading back home next week to Washington, DC with a few days to visit friends in New York in between
2024-08-07，19:42 UTC-04：
慢遞員朱女士更新：「只是想簡短地告訴你，我今天把書送到了O，我們的交談很愉快：）」
COURIER Ms. CHU UPDATE：Just a brief note to let you know I delivered the book today to O and we had a nice conversation ：）
2024-07-30，14:33 UTC-04：
RECEIVER REPLY：
Hi Hiuwai,
Thank you so much for bringing the book to New York! I'm looking forward to meeting you in person too.
I'm living in Forest Hills, Queens and can come over to Brooklyn for the meeting. 1st and 4th August in afternoon work for me, please suggest the exact time and place.
My cell phone is +1 (347)XXX-XXX
2024-07-29，06:59 UTC-04：
COURIER Ms. CHU UPDATE:
It’s wonderful to connect virtually and looking forward to meeting you in person.
I’m in town until the 11th. It’s best for me to meet next week because I’m here with my son until the 5th.
Here’s my mobile for WhatsApp, which is more agile for communicating than email (which I’m trying not to check too often while I’m on holiday): +34 XXX XXX XXX.
I’m staying in Crown Heights, but I’m flexible about where to meet.
Best,
Hiuwai
2024-06-22，18:01 UTC+02：
慢遞員易拎小姐在巴塞羅那的最後一天和媽媽一起遊覽旅遊景點，中途塞了一點時間也順路經過新招的慢遞員朱女士的工作場所，把書留在前台；因為是週六，前台的工作人員報告星期一也是公眾假期大家都放假，朱女士應該星期二才能上班攬件
Courer Ms. PORTABLE spends her last day in Barcelona visiting tourist sites with mum, slipping in the final handover of HQL-602 to its new courier and destination, via the front desk of her workplace; the attendants working report that it will be a holiday on Monday, therefore courier CHU should be able to pick it up on Tuesday
2024-06-22，09:01 UTC+02：
新招的慢遞員朱曉蔚立刻回覆易拎的請求：「我很樂意參加，只是希望書不會太重 ;-)。把書留在美術館前台是很理想的辦法」
New courier recruit Hiuwai CHU replies quickly to PORTABLE's request: "I’d be happy to participate. I hope it’s not too heavy of a book ;-). Leaving the book at the museum reception for me would be ideal."
2024-06-21，中午 noon UTC+02：
慢遞員易拎小姐的母親前來探望，工作和假期招待媽媽的雙重任務讓易拎很難安排慢遞業務；起初，她可以拉著母親一起去 L'Hospitalet de Llobregat地區送紡織品，想著之後可以去收件人推薦的Malpais投遞地點，但計劃並不順利，易拎在最後一刻嘗試重新安排HQL-602的路線，換了一位住在巴塞羅那的慢遞員
COURIER Ms. PORTABLE's mother has come to visit, and the double duties between work and entertaining mum on holiday make it difficult to plan couriering engagements; at first, she is able to drag mum along to the L’Hospitalet de Llobregat area for a textile delivery, thinking that a visit to RECEIVER's recommended drop-off location at Malpais could happen afterwards, but unfortunately the plan does not work out so well, and PORTABLE tries a last-minute re-routing of HQL-602 with a different courier who lives in Barcelona
No worries ：） It takes the time it needs. Thank you for your message. How are you?
I know a person yes. Are you still in Barcelona? You should also meet my friend M if you are still there. Otherwise there is this project space Malpais, J who is running it comes to Basel every now and then because his partner lives there. I can put you in contact with them.
just wanted to share with you that the book you ordered has arrived in the EU! in the end, it was me that brought it, hahah, arrived so close to you, in Zürich airport, but only a quick transfer so could only say grüezi and then onwards to Barcelona, where I am now... do you know anyone traveling in this direction soon that could help get it back to Switzerland?
hope this finds you well, looking forward to more conversation, and wishing for time to slow down...
2024-05-22，UTC+02：
西班牙政府總統佩德羅・桑切斯確認，部長會議已批准承認巴勒斯坦國： 「這是一項歷史性決定，其唯一目標是幫助以色列人和巴勒斯坦人實現和平。承認巴勒斯坦國不僅是對巴勒斯坦人民合法願望的歷史公正。如果我們要實現和平，承認巴勒斯坦國也是當務之急」
The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro SÁNCHEZ, confirms that the Council of Ministers have approved the recognition of the State of Palestine: This is a historic decision with a single objective: to help Israelis and Palestinians reach peace. Recognition of the State of Palestine is not only a matter of historical justice to the legitimate aspirations of the people of Palestine. It is also an urgent necessity if we are all to achieve peace.
2024-05-21，11:33 UTC+02：
慢遞員易拎小姐與緩件HQL-602， HQL-601，HQL-603，和行李裡的 HQL-604落地；HQL-606在她肩上的背包中的一個小紙盒裡；一些延誤後，她到了她將在接下來待三週的公寓，HQL-602等待轉運返回巴塞爾
Courier Ms. PORTABLE arrives with dispatches HQL-602, HQL-601, HQL-603, and HQL-604 in her luggage; HQL-606 is inside a small cardboard box which is inside a backpack which is on her shoulder; after a bit of delay, she arrives at the flat where she will stay for the next three weeks, HQL-602 awaiting relay back to Basel
2024-05-20，between 23:50 UTC+08 and 2024-05-21 08:50 UTC +02：
在空中，何易拎小姐寫了9封電郵，其3靠蘇黎世的歪富愛發送，剩下則在到達巴塞羅那後送出；她還觀影了「美國小說」，一個作家諷刺玩笑般，在當前後-黑命攸關時代給白人的需好來寫作某種”黑“故事；當然書成為暢銷，他不能拒絕，因為他需要錢來幫助照顧他受苦於阿滋海默症的媽媽；期間何小姐並不真的認為這電影很好看，但她感激裡面許多聰明有理的對話 ——「我很感激他們在嘗試做」；她經常思考「如何解決」的問題，特別鑒於近來在她生活中出現的大量誤解和交流的小事故；當電影主角用手機跟他的出版社談話，試圖在一個後種族世界解決當代美國黑人生活的問題時，一個白人搶到他前面，攔走了他的出租車；易拎小姐看片時，她點了份牛肉米飯並被乘務員告知需要等待；她沒收到她的塑料餐盤（和意麵一起）直到其它人都吃完飛機餐並被收走他們的餐盤；這電影在繼續
While in air, Ms. PORTABLE writes nine e-mails, three of which are sent with wi-fi in Zürich, and the rest to be sent after arrival in Barcelona; she also watches one film called American Fiction, which is about an author who, as a sarcastic joke, writes the kind of 'black' story that white people need to consume in the current post-Black Lives Matter era; of course, the book becomes a hit, and he cannot say no because he needs the money to help take care of his Alzheimer's-stricken mother; while Ms. PORTABLE does not actually think the film is excellent overall, she appreciates many of the clever and en pointe dialogues——"i appreciate what they were trying to do"; she thinks often about the question of 'how to address', especially in light of the great deal of misunderstandings and mishaps of communication that have been occurring in her life lately; as the protagonist of the film talks on his mobile phone to his publisher, trying to address contemporary Black American life in a post-racist world, a white man walks in front of him and takes his cab; as Ms. PORTABLE watches the film, she orders the meal of beef with rice and is told by the flight attendant to wait; she does not receive her plastic tray (with pasta) until after everyone else has already finished eating and their trays have been cleared; the movie continues
2024-05-20，23:50：
慢遞員何易拎小姐從香港出發飛往巴塞羅那，旅程15個小時的瑞士航空及55分鐘的蘇黎世逗留；值機時，她幾乎被迫發現這趟飛行不再有靠窗或走道的座位，她的漫長飛行必須被擠壓在其它乘客中間；然而，登機至那被分配的32排座，在過道的男人詢問是否可以和他或那坐臨窗的女人交換座位，因為他們是一起的；何小姐超級開心地選了窗邊，傾斜著她的頭以對抗冷颼颼的，強化塑料窗戶，飛機起飛
Courier Ms. PORTABLE departs from Hong Kong on 15-hour SwissAir journey to Barcelona with a 55-minute layover in Zürich; upon check-in, she was quite downtrodden to discover that there were no more window or aisle seats available, and she would have to be squeezed between other passengers for the long flight; however, upon arriving at her assigned row 32, the man in the aisle asks if it would be possible to change seats with either himself or the woman seated next to the window, because they are travelling together; Ms. PORTABLE is so happy and chooses the window seat, leaning her head against the chilly, reinforced plastic window as the plane takes off
布魯克林 Brooklyn
「一張照片麼麼」 Here’s a pic xx
巴塞一天遊 Touring Barcelona
HQL-602前的景觀 Sights before HQL-602 drop-off
HQL-602前的景觀 Sights before HQL-602 drop-off
HQL-602前的景觀 Sights before HQL-602 drop-off
HQL-602前的景觀 Sights before HQL-602 drop-off
HQL-602安全放到前台 Safely dropped off at the front desk
2024-07-29，19:37：
慢遞員波波爾午再次借助談戀愛的來往線路，水客般的順帶緩件HQL-624由土瓜灣轉運到廣州，轉給長洲島轉運站負責人大雨相；大雨相聯絡同在島上的收件人，收件人則在飯後散步時前來取件，慢遞派送交接在長洲島變得日常起來
COURIER Popol WUU visits Hong Kong again to shorten long-distance relationship distances, and after her 7-day limit in the SAR, agrees once more to parallel trade-like bring dispatch HQL-624 from Tokwawan to Guangzhou, where she hands over to Changzhou Island Relay Centre LOGISTICIAN lß; lß informs RECEIVER, who takes an after dinner stroll to the relay centre to pick up her book; slow delivery handover successfully blends in with Changzhou Island daily life!
2024-07-23，晚 evening：
收件人先來長洲島轉運站串門，並分享派送她和小組新做好的內地社區社群地圖目錄，裡面標注了眾多大小城市的各色活躍空間。稍後又在島上最美落腳點某村友的生日會上碰面；跟展銷場人下單一本朋友推薦的自出版物，碰巧也是一本目錄
RECEIVER first visits the Changzhou Island Relay Centre to share the new community map that she and her team has made, a printed directory that labels active indie spaces of various scales in many cities; later that same evening, RECEIVER runs into LIGHT LOGISTICIAN lß at the birthday party of a mutual friend in what is jokingly known as the most beautiful flat on the island; after a chat, RECEIVER places an order for another kind of directory, which just so happens to be a CATALOGUE as well!
長洲島 Changzhou Island
廣州塔 Guangzhou Tower
前往常州前波波爾午在廣州市內遊玩
Tourist detractions in Guangzhou before heading to Changzhou
「嗨！我是J和C的朋友。我通常在美國，但現在來香港度暑假。我將於8月7日飛回美國，8月8-10日在紐約市，然後從8月10日起在華盛頓特區。」 Hi! I’m friends with J and C. I’m usually based in the US but am here in Hong Kong for the summer. I’ll be flying back to the US on 7 August. I’ll be in NYC from 8-10 August, then Washington DC from 10 August onward.
空閒路線 AVAILABLE ROUTE
—
墨爾本
Melbourne
曼谷 Bangkok 和或者 AND/OR
清邁 Chiangmai
高達 up to
1 kg
小番茄
little tomato
發佈 POSTED：
2024-07-25，08:22
「8月17號飛之前都在Melb，在曼谷呆到20號去清邁，然後8月24號飛回Melb」 Will be in Melb until flying on 17 August, staying in Bangkok until the 20th, then Chiangmai, and back to Melb on 24 August
2024-07-25，01:33：
慢遞員paperbridgeee報告：「夾(配合)到夾(配合)不到~
繼嘗試在某演出場地碰面的計劃失敗後終於在親愛的顧客的工作室與其碰面並成功慢遞了她兩年前向展銷場提出想要購買但信息被塵埃淹沒了而暫時沒有成功但現在成功購買了的書書書書書; 親愛的顧客向慢遞員表達了他對展銷場的喜歡及愛戴並與其中一個工作室夥伴一起向在場其他人士推介推薦並推送關於慢遞的服務和展銷場的概念呢呢呢讓慢遞員有點受寵若驚並感到非常甜蜜.同場加映觀塘牛頭角地區喊叫k**ta食物外送服務很是便宜配搭啤酒是絕佳的」
COURIER paperbridgeee REPORT：garp dou garp ng dou~
moving on from a failed delivery attempt at a performance venue: finally met up with our dear customer to deliver the book to her studio. she had initially made an inquiry two years ago but the message got lost. Upon handover, dear customer expressed great admiration for Display Distribute as her and her studio mate explain to the rest of the room what DD is. it is ho sweet. *ee** food delivery is really cheap in the area (Kwun Tong/ Ngau Tau Kok), and it is nice to have good cheap food with beer.
2024-05-31，10:15：
慢遞員paperbridgeee更新：「未交收，上次最尾話再約過，我哋話好之後等緊六月但未約實」
COURIER paperbridgeee UPDATE：Haven't handed over yet, the last time we spoke we said we'd make another appointment for June but still hasn't been confirmed
2024-05-10，18:49：
慢遞員paperbridgeee披露她曾在一個活動時遇見過收件人，所以她可以帶這條線路；慢遞員易拎要在paperbridfeee工作的城中心附近參加別的工作，於是提出將緩件HQL-599傳給她，但paperbridegeee那天不在，就由她的同事Lamma Ho做慢遞員慷慨交接，收留出版物緩件直到paperbridgeee回來
COURIER paperbridgeee reveals that she has met the RECEIVER before at an event, so she can pick up the route; courier PORTABLE, attending to other work matters in the vicinity, offers then to bring dispatch HQL-599 to paperbridgeee's workplace in Central, but paperbridgeee is not there on the day PORTABLE arrives, so COURIER Lamma HO, a colleague of paperbridgeee, serves as a generous bridge, holding onto the books until paperbridgeee comes back to work
2024-04-21，15:49：
收件人失誤地給後勤慢遞的社交媒體發送了一條鏈接，物流師從而看到之前購買兩本出版物的詢問消息；當問到運送的細節時，收件人提到這購物詢問事實上是三年一個月十八天十七個小時五十四分鐘前的，不過因為價格並未上漲，ta們還是願意收到二手山寨系列的兩本書；訂單終於落下，忙碌的香港人開始慢慢交流共同會面的時間地點
RECEIVER mistakenly sends a link to LIGHT LOGISTICS via a social media direct message, and the LOGISTICIANS see a previous message inquiring about purchasing two publications; when asking about delivery details, RECEIVER reveals that the inquiry was actually made 3 years, 1 month, 18 days, 17 hours and 54 minutes earlier, but since the price has not gone up, they would still like to receive two copies of the SECOND MOUNTAIN series; order finally placed, and a slow exchange for common meeting space and times among busy Hong Kong people commences
觀塘 Kwun Tong
中環 Central
慢遞員南亞何 Courier Lamma HO picture-in-picture
維多利亞港 Victoria Harbour
網上 Internet
漫長的訂單 A very slow order
空閒路線 AVAILABLE ROUTE
—
香港
Hong Kong
首爾 Seoul 和或者 AND/OR
台北 Taipei
高達 up to
1 kg
paperbridgeee
發佈 POSTED：
2024-07-25，00:35
「我9月中旬會在首爾&台北！(9月8-18日）需要我慢遞什麼告訴我」 I will be in seoul & taipei mid-sep! (sep 8-18) Let me know if you want me to slow deliver anything~
2024-07-24，13:38 UTC+0：
慢遞員carwyn更新：「是的，我在倫敦，星期五會派送。我收到慢遞後應該在公園裡拍照的，和另外兩個藝術家在一起，他們對我的包裹很感興趣」
COURIER carwyn UPDATE：Yes, am in London, will deliver on Friday. Should have taken pics in the park after i got the package, i was with two other artists who were intrigued by my package
2024-07-17，18:38 UTC+01：
慢遞員carwyn從阿姆南站乘地鐵到中央車站，發件人「THEETAT複印店」細心記錄他自己打包的HQL-618；交接成功，等待21號轉倫敦
COURIER carwyn takes the metro from Amsterdam Zuid to Centraal, with careful documentation of HQL-618 packaging by SENDER Copyshop THEETAT; handover successful, awaiting relay to London on 21 July
2024-07-16，12:30 UTC+01：
慢遞員carwyn、發件人「THEETAT複印店」和收件人在IG群組中聚一聚，很快就發現carwyn和收件人原來已認識彼此，carwyn 說：「反正我們注定要喝咖啡的😂」； 慢遞員通知THEETAT複印店，他會在7月16-19 日到阿姆斯特丹自由大學參加一個會議，可是那裡離複印店工作室有點遠，所以改約第二天晚上6點半左右到中央車站；carwyn有興趣在學術講座或論文中討論他的慢遞經驗🤔，「也希望編輯一本關於亞文化和圈子與中國的書。期待成為一名慢遞人員☺️」
COURIER carwyn, SENDER Copyshop THEETAT and RECEIVER gather in a chat group, and it is soon revealed that carwyn and RECEIVER already know one another, as carwyn says, "We were meant to have coffee anyway 😂"; COURIER informs Copyshop THEETAT that they'll be in Amsterdam from 16-19 July at a conference at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, which is a bit far from the Copyshop studio, so an appointment is made instead for the next day at Centraal Station around 18:30; carwyn is interested to discuss the courier "experience in an academic talk or an essay 🤔, also hoping to edit a book on subcultures, scenes, and china. Looking forward to being a courier ☺️."
Berita Gunung Berapi: Planetary Politics in a Volcano Age
日惹
Yogyakarta
香港
Hong Kong
3 本《Anonymous》
4 本《Berita》
TIMMY +
ZIMU
慢遞招募發布
ROUTE REQUESTED：
2023-12-08
2024-07-16，21:45：
慢遞員ZIMU邀請收件人領取緩件號HQL-617，不如同時也去參加她明天晚上組織的小型電影製作人聚會
COURIER ZIMU invites RECEIVER to collect dispatch HQL-617 and why not also attend a small gathering of filmmakers that she is organising the next evening
2024-07-15，20:52：
慢遞員ZIMU更新：「我這裡有三本火山的，Timmy幫我拿四本Anonymous Writers回港，我會找他要書的，然後一起遞送；另外我想謝謝KUNCI的Fiky，那麼有耐心等我們，他跟另外一個小組成員Ap一起很棒地向我們介紹KUNCI」
COURIER ZIMU UPDATE：I've got now three copies of the Volcano book on me, and TIMMY brought four copies of Anonymous Writers back to Hong Kong; I'll get them from him and deliver them together; also want to thank Fiky from KUNCI who waited for us so patiently and gave us a wonderful introduction of their collective together with other KUNCI member Ap
2024-07-12，更晚點 later at night UTC+7：
慢遞員ZIMU更新：「不過晚上稍後我和朋友們去當地餐館吃東西，實在太累了，把書忘記在那裡...但我已經在第二天大早飛走。所以不得不請求朋友TIMMY和Jiahui幫我聯繫那餐館取書。經過相當地努力想出一個最容易的取回方式（另一些朋友也提供了幫助，太謝謝你們了-Alice，Connie，Ma Ran，David！），謝謝你Tiyan Jaya Jogja保護《匿名作者俱樂部》的安妥!」
COURIER ZIMU UPDATE：But later at night I went to eat at a local eatery with friends, got too tired, and forgot some of the books there… but I’m already flying next early morning. So have to ask another friend TIMMY and Jiahui to help me contact the eatery and pick up. After quite some effort to figure out the easiest pick up (quite a few other friends helped out also, thank you so much—Alice, Connie, Ma Ran, David!) thank you Tiyan Jaya Jogja for keeping the Anonymous Writers Club safe!
2024-07-12，22:22 UTC+7：
出版社：「我剛把3本《火山》書和4本《匿名作者俱樂部》給了ZIMU」
慢遞員ZIMU：「七月十二號晚拜訪KUNCI Study Forum & Collective，從Fiky那裡拿到書。我有些遲到因為我們在一個直到黃昏的緊張的觀光導覽。我們在會議碰到的所有其它朋友都先去到KUNCI，並等著我們開始一個恰逢的介紹。最後面對面的和他們分享學習到替代學校的去/方法！」
PUBLISHER：i just gave ZIMU 3 Volcano books and 4 Anonymous Writers Club
COURIER ZIMU：July 12 evening visited KUNCI Study Forum & Collective, got the books from Fiky. I was a bit late coz we went to do an intense sightseeing tour until sunset. All other friends we met here at the conference went to KUNCI first and waited for us to start a proper introduction. Finally learned about the alternative school (de)methods from their sharing face to face!
Mantrijeron
慢遞員ZIMU和出版社小組的Fiky在KUNCI紀錄 COURIER ZIMU and PUBLISHER group member Fiky document their handover at KUNCI
《火山》書 The Volcano book
四本《匿名作者俱樂部》 Four copies of Anonymous Writers Club
KUNCI在日惹款待賓客 KUNCI hospitality to guests in Jogjakarta
小店老闆轉送給慢遞員 TIMMY Shop owner hands over to COURIER TIMMY
慢遞員們的朋友馬然幫忙紀錄 COURIER TIMMY and ZIMU’s friend Ma Ran captures the event
2024-07-12，15:06 UTC-04：
慢遞員CHARIS終於抵達她的送貨目的地，位於下東區的Bungee Space，但不幸的是收件人S今天不在；取而代之的是，她與S的同事T會面，並享受「一場愉快的長談，他們還特別為我調製了番石榴咖啡飲料，這正是夏日午後應該喝的甜咸清爽飲料」；緩件號HQL-613派送成功， 另外HQL-610、HQL-611和HQL-612等待轉運
COURIER CHARIS finally makes it to her delivery destination at Bungee Space on the Lower East Side, but unfortunately RECEIVER S is not there; instead, she meets with T, the colleague of S, and enjoys "a lovely long chat and they made me a special guava coffee drink, which is exactly the kind of sweet and salty refreshing thing to have on a summer afternoon"; delivery of dispatch HQL-613 now complete, and HQL-610, HQL-611, and HQL-612 in relay
Hi dear S,
Thanks for asking about coming today but I won’t be able to make it as a friend unexpectedly popped into Brooklyn. I’m thinking about Wednesday or Friday next week. Would you mind telling me when you won’t be in (or will be) whichever is easier to convey?
Everything is well in New York, my days have been mostly catching up with friends and walking lazily around. Letting the summer heat slow my routine and mind down. Here’s a photo of the shop cat at Quimby’s in Williamsburg where I bought an armful of zines.
I'm writing you from the Hong Kong International Airport now. Excited to be in New York and excited to see the drop-off location Bungee Space and to meet you, S! Thanks for your welcome. I'm thinking right now of coming by on Friday, July 5, if that works for you.
It's funny, when I offered to courier some books from Hong Kong to New York, I didn't know or have any assumptions as to what the books would be. I actually own a copy of Acts of Departure but haven't read it yet and left it in my office at school by the time I picked up the books.
So on Saturday afternoon I wound up deciding to go to Art and Culture Outreach to acquire another copy to bring with me on the plane to read. I was planning on swinging by to buy some books for other friends. I've been feeling anxiety about this long flight (not having done such a long flight since 2020 at the start of the pandemic) and thought perhaps the book's company and the synchronicity with the dispatch would bring me comfort.
Below are images and captions of the journey so far.
Take care,
Charis
2024-06-30，22:10 UTC-04：
與收件人建立聯繫，她說：「感謝這次遞送。我很期待與妳見面並進行交談！Bungee Space 週一休息。其它時間的營業時間為上午11:00至下午7:30。我們也很樂意充當臨時轉運站，也請通知其他接收方我們的開放時間，謝謝！」
Contact established with RECEIVER, who writes: "Thank you for making this delivery. I am looking forward to meeting you in person and having a chat! Bungee Space is closed on Mondays. We are open from 11AM to 7:30PM on all other days. We are also happy to serve as a temporary relay centre. Please also notify the receivers about our opening hours, thanks!"
2024-06-27，17:42：
經過快速的攬件安排，慢遞員CHARIS夠取走大量慢遞件： HQL-610、HQL-611、HQL-612 和 613，全部前往紐約地區；她這次是臨時決定的行程，會停留兩周；『展銷場』先安排在曼哈頓下城的一個收件地點，希望不給CHARIS太大方便
After very quick meeting arrangements, courier CHARIS is able to pick up and great number of dispatches: HQL-610, HQL-611, HQL-612, and 613, all headed for the New York City metropolitan area; it was a last-minute arranged trip, and she will stay for two weeks, but arrangements for a single drop-off point in Lower Manhattan hope to keep it easy enough
2024-06-25，14:47：
一個朋友的朋友跟展銷場聯絡：「你好！我7月1號飛往紐約，JC跟我講你們有可能需要幫忙慢遞一些東西過去？跟我說一下！我可以帶大概10-12公斤的東西，行李額夠多」
A friend of a friend gets in touch with Display Distribute： Hi! I’m flying to NY on 1 July and JC mentioned to me that perhaps you would find it helpful if I couriered some things over? Let me know! I could carry about a duffel bag worth of things up to 10-12 kg, as I have quite a lot of baggage allowance
下東區 Lower East Side
牽動的手，我們慢步Soho-百老匯，在春天右轉，在包厘街北，於史坦頓右 Holding hands, we walk slowly through Soho—up Broadway, turn right on Spring, north on Bowery, and a right on Stanton.
T和我津津有味地聊「離開的舉措」和後勤慢遞，Bungee空間以及出版。我細覽所有書籍，T推薦我留意一些特別選集。當我們聊，T問我喝不喝特調，我說接受一切。T做了番石榴果義式濃縮和棕櫚糖特調。我真是幸運。 T and I enthusiastically chat about Acts of Departure and LIGHT LOGISTICS and Bungee Space and publishing. I peruse all the books and T recommends I pay particular attention to some specific sections. As we chat, T asks if they can make me a drink and I say I’ll have anything you’d like to make. T makes this guava juice, espresso, and palm sugar concoction. I feel lucky.
布鲁克林 Brooklyn
威廉斯堡：在遠離讀書人和小誌買家的世界中酣睡 Williamsburg：Soundly asleep in a world away from the book-readers and zine-buyers
波恩兰姆小丘：一些倒時差，每個早上醒來，閱讀，然後可能又睡去。在朋友的公寓裡讀關於女性間的友誼，這綑綁的加固依靠於我們選擇所言說的和如何說。「離開的舉措」，我讀完了。 Boerum Hill：A bit jetlagged, I wake up each morning and read and then perhaps fall asleep again. In my friend’s flat I read about friendship between women and the way these ties can be strengthened depending on what we choose to say and how we say it. I finish Acts of Departure.
緩件伴旅。我們同乘D火車，我指出在我們左邊的布魯克林大橋和曼哈頓下城的天際線。 I carry my dispatches with me like travelling with a companion. We take the D train together and I point out the Brooklyn Bridge to our left and the skyline of lower Manhattan.
路途中 En route
在香港國際機場26號登機口對面回復慢遞郵件，等待14:45飛往東京的航班，之後將轉機飛往肯尼迪機場 Responding to LIGHT LOGISTICS e-mail at the Hong Kong International Airport, waiting across from gate 26 for my flight at 14:45 to Tokyo, after which I will transfer to fly to JFK
我在從香港到東京的飛機上讀「離開的舉措」。對我來說有同時性的是歸因於邊界和交叉處的第一封給
D的信，我也有同樣的舉措。真的，讀這書的整體感受都像對我自己生活的注腳：自2020年當我打算移居首次去到美國，一個於疫情中期和香港的改變時定下的計畫。 I read Acts of Departure on the flight from Hong Kong to Tokyo. The first letter to D refers to borders and crossing and this feels like synchronicity to me, in accord with my own actions. Actually, the book as a whole feels to me like I’m adding footnotes to my own life: visiting the States for the first time since I went in 2020 when I was planning to relocate, a plan I put aside in the midst of the pandemic and changes in Hong Kong.
我在肯尼迪機場的海關警戒處排隊等待了2小時，當那裡反覆出現禁用手機標示開始一直在閱讀。第二頁段落的圖示說“信件可以通過海底電纜和電磁波跨越地球，以極其不滿可還實際的方式聯結我們。”是的，我飛向紐約的理由是，只是傳訊和打電話給我的朋友們已經不再充分，我們需要同在一個房間裡。 I wait for 2 hours in the queue at Customs and Border Protection at the John F. Kennedy Airport, reading most of the time since there are repeated signs to not use phones. The paragraph on the second page pictured here says, “a letter can cross the planet via ocean cables and electromagnetic waves that connect us in the most unsatisfying yet practical ways.” This is really the reason I flew to New York, it wasn’t sufficient to message and call my friend anymore, we needed to be in a room together.
灣仔 Wanchai
「上灣仔富德樓的電梯到14樓的艺鵠書店」 Going up the lift to Art and Culture Outreach on the 14th floor of Foo Tak Building in Wan Chai
找到《離開的舉動》在艺鵠書店的書架上
Finding Acts of Departure on the shelf at ACO
《離開的舉動》在我買到的其它書之間：送給 J 的《大山與人》、給 Z 的《光榮結業》和給自己的《Something Close to Music》 Acts of Departure sandwiched with the other books I bought: Driving Lantau for J, 光榮結業 for Z, and Something Close to Music for myself
HQL-610、611、612和613跟我的衣服還有好多從Don Don Donki給朋友買的零食放到行李箱 Packing HQL-610, 611, 612, and 613 along with my clothes and many snacks from Don Don Donki for friends
Sorry for such a delayed reply! I got back from the northern hemisphere and it's taken me a while to find my feet and get over the jet lag 🙃
I did receive the shipment! Really enjoying reading through everything and spending some time with the publications, the publishing and distribution work that you are doing is truly refreshing.
Big hello from Melourne and hoping you are very well.
Just posted! Changed the box but the price stayed the same, unfortunately :(...
Attached are the receipt/tracking info, you can link here for viewing the tracking with item number: EA363229760HK.
If you happen to have a Wise account for transferring the cost directly in HKD would be great, but if not, PayPal is also fine. Please do not send it marked as goods/services, as PayPal will take a fee if so.
I've included one extra HomeShop publication for you, called 《我的負能量是你的正能量， or 或者， The Grin Without the Cat》, which includes mini stories based upon a sort of mock-anthropology museum presentation of HomeShop after it closed, acting as a guide for viewing a lot of objects and ephemera from that time...
Hope you enjoy the reading, and thanks again for your support of our minor, 'semi-autonomous' publishing endeavours!
Nice to meet you and very happy to finally unite you and your books!
I'll be in Brisbane from 12-15 July, travelling between Wishart (12-13th) & Taringa (14-15th). If you can possibly arrange for someone to pick them up from either of those places that would be great! Otherwise Monday 15 July is my most free day, so I could travel somewhere mutually convenient.
Thanks,
TIAN
2024-07-09，13:00 UTC+10：
收件人回信：「早上好，我叫J。我收到一條短信關於一本書的訂單，發到041XXXXXXX。可以問一下，是哪一本書？」
RECEIVER REPLY：Good morning, my name is J. I was texted regarding a book order at 041XXXXXXX. Can I ask what book this is?
2024-07-05，13:55：
第二次短信通知：「親愛的 J，我們一直想就你 2020 年訂購的一本書與你聯繫，但找不到你，請給我們發一個郵件！ logistics[愛特]displaydistribute[點]com」
SECOND SMS ATTEMPT：dear j, we have been trying to contact you a long time about a book you ordered in 2020 but can't track you down. please e-mail us! logistics[愛特]displaydistribute[點]com
2024-03-13，23:47：
嘗試發郵件聯繫失敗後，通過短信聯繫收件人：「親愛的 JY，抱歉給您發這麼奇怪的信息，您幾年前向我們訂購了兩期《闖》，但我們一直無法與您取得聯繫。能否給我們發email到 logistics@displaydistribute.com？您的書目前在雪梨！非常感謝，展銷場」
RECEIVER contacted by SMS after failed e-mail attempts: Dear JY, apologies for the strange message, but you ordered two issues of Chuăng from us some years ago, and we haven't been able to get in touch with you. Would it be possible to email us at logistics@displaydistribute.com? Your books are currently in Sydney! Thank you so much, Display Distribute
2024-03-04，16:26 UTC+11：
慢遞員TIAN更新：「到雪梨啦，完全忘記更新，抱歉！😅 書經由了廣州、惠州、韶關和開平終於到了雪梨——真是一次大旅行！4月份再往昆士蘭州 👍👍」
COURIER TIAN UPDATE：I've arrived in Sydney! Totally forgot to update, sorry! 😅 The books have arrived in Sydney after going through Guangzhou, Huizhou, Shaoguan and Huiping. They've been on quite the tour! I'll be going up to QLD in April 👍👍
2024-02-20，08:57：
李先生早上8:57準時出現在北角華美達盛景酒店的大堂，與前來探望106 歲爺爺為其慶生的TIAN小姐交接成功
Mr. SANDERSON shows up very promptly at 08:57 to the lobby of the Ramada Grand View Hotel in North Point to hand over to TIAN, who is in town for a few days to visit her grandfather for his 106th birthday
2024-02-14，09:36：
快遞員李先生在展銷場土瓜灣轉運中心隔壁工作，他同時在準備將另一份快件緩送去往菲律賓（HQL-579），還非常熱心地取回另一份件；難道不是情人節嘛？
Courier Mr. SANDERSON, who works next door to the Display Distribute Tokwawan Relay Centre, is very kind to pick up another dispatch simultaneously to preparing another dispatch to the Philippines (HQL-579); it must be Valentine's Day!
2024-02-11，11:08 UTC+11：
TIAN 是「後勤」慢遞網絡的新成員，她將於2月17-20日在香港，然後在內地逗留幾個星期；3月3日從香港飛回雪梨；她還慷慨地表示，4月初去墨爾本也可以派送什麼的：「樂意為你們提供力所能及的幫助。新年快樂！🧧🐲🌸✨ 」
New to the LIGHT LOGISTICS network, TIAN joins with an upcoming travel from 17-20 February in Hong Kong, followed by some weeks in the mainland before flying back out of Hong Kong on the 3rd of March; she generously also offers to bring a dispatch to Melbourne later in early April, saying: Happy to help in any way I can. Happy new year! 🧧🐲🌸✨
達拉格國 Dharug Country
「哈哈哈哈，我最擅长打包，最不擅长拆包 🤣」 Hahaha I’m great at packing, the worst at unpacking🤣
廣州 Guangzhou
「書到了廣州停留了一小段時間才往澳大利亞的大旅行」 The books spent some time in Guangzhou before their big journey to Australia
韶關 Shaoguan
「之後，HQL-580前往韶關，這裡是諸暨古巷，有許多從北方到南方的家族的祖屋」 HQL-580 then travelled to Shaoguan. This is Zhuji ancient alley where there are ancestral houses of many family lines who travelled from the north to the south of China
惠州 Huizhou
「隨後，書被送往惠州，這是那邊的一個湖的照片，千百年來一直是文人墨客的勝地」 The books then went to Huizhou. This a pic of the lake, a scenic spot for writers for hundreds of years
北角 North Point
慢遞員李先生同時交給TIAN和拍紀錄 Courier Mr. SANDERSON simultaneously makes handover to TIAN and takes photo
「再繞去看看皇都戲院大樓的施工情況」 Plus quick detour to see the work on the State Theatre Building
慢遞員TIAN：「我爺爺，在香港的生日蛋糕」 Courier TIAN：My grandfather’s birthday cakes in hk
2024-07-06，22:13 UTC+09：
慢遞員小船一家報告：「今天傍晚，小船一家和她的女兒小海在二子玉川車站與收件人會面，交件成功！我們剛上巴士就下起了大雨，真是太幸運了！收件人是個害羞的小姑娘。她很驚訝自己的書能以這種方式送達，並提到她也有興趣當慢遞員。她送了我一本由她和她的同學做的小誌《のぼり》。我們邊喝著融化的冰淇淋汽水邊愉快地交談；希望您喜歡這份報告。」
COURIER Small BOAT FAMILY REPORT：This evening, Small BOAT and her daughter Small OCEAN met RECEIVER at Futako-tamagawa station, and the delivery was successful! It started to rain heavily just as we got on the bus. We were so lucky! RECEIVER is a shy young lady. She was surprised to learn that her book was delivered this way and mentioned that she is also interested in being a courier one day. She gave me a zine called のぼり made by her and her classmates. We had a pleasant talk over melting ice cream soda; hope you enjoy the report.
2024-07-04，09:14 UTC+09：
COURIER Small BOAT FAMILY UPDATE：
Dear H
yes! OK! Do you use any SNS? maybe more convenient for contact on that day.
my messenger: bXXXXXXX
my phone number: 0804XXXXXXX
if you have time to have a coffee how about meet in this cafe near the station?
or if you don’t have time it’s ok we can meet in front of the station. let me know!
Dear H
こんにちは！
where do you live? i live near 多摩川駅（東横線）、大田区。
as I have to take care of a 6 months old baby, so if you can meet me somewhere near 東横線 like 自由が丘or 渋谷駅 that would be helpful!
actually the best place for me to meet is 二子玉川駅 as i can go there by bus.
but yes tokyo is very big and let me know where you are and let’s find a good place to meet!
Best,
Boat
2024-06-30，13:52：
土瓜灣轉運站慢遞員回信：「你第一次慢遞是2017年，帶的是HQL-154！」
TOKWAWAN LIGHT LOGISTICIAN REPLY："Your first recorded dispatch was HQL-154 in 2017!"
2024-06-28，02:13 UTC+09：
慢遞員小船家更新：「哈哈我們到家啦！！到東京多摩川，我想回憶起第一次做慢遞員是什麼時候。」
COURIER Small BOAT FAMILY UPDATE："hahah we arrived home!! To Tamagawa, Tokyo. I'm trying to remember when I first worked as a LIGHT LOGISTICS courier"
2024-06-27，13:25：
小船不止一次人肉快遞，但她已經很久沒有去香港了；現在她有了一個年輕的家庭，可以和他們一起團隊慢遞；從日本在上海落地後，他們一家先去了小船的浙江老家，向親戚們介紹了這個新生BB家庭，然後三人回日本前因為工作上的事繞過來香港待了三天，在飛回東京的飛機前，小船一家攬上了HQL-609
Small BOAT has couriered for LIGHT LOGISTICS on more than one occasion, but it has been a while since she has traveled to Hong Kong, and now she has a young family to courier with together as a team; after first landing in Shanghai, the family went to Small BOAT's hometown in Zhejiang to introduce the new baby family to relatives, then the threesome passed through Hong Kong for work matters, picking up HQL-609 just before their flight back to Tokyo
2024-07-03，17:30 UTC-04：
經過幾條短信和幾封郵件的確認，慢遞員閃爍的塵埃~終於與收件人約好見面時間，最後在蘇豪區伍斯特街和布魯姆街的拐角處完成最後交收
After a few SMS and e-mail confirmations, COURIER twinkling dust~ is finally able to make an appointment to meet RECEIVER, and final handover is made at the corner of Wooster and Broome Streets in Soho
2024-06-20，11:27 UTC-04：
從慢遞員易拎離開紐約之後，慢遞員閃爍的塵埃~一直在保管緩件HQL-577，可是時間過得很快，突然到六月底了；閃爍的塵埃~問：「慢遞包裹的收件人什麼時候聯絡我？我7月初也要離開」
COURIER twinkling dust~ has been holding on to dispatch HQL-577 since courier PORTABLE's departure from New York; time passes quickly, and suddenly it's June; twinkling dust~ asks: "When will the LIGHT LOGISTICS package RECEIVER contact me for the small package? I’m gonna leave early July
2024-03-01，15:32 UTC-05：
發了兩封郵件沒有回覆後，慢遞員易拎用WhatsApp試著聯絡收件人，但依然沒有反饋；緩件HQL-577在等待一個路標
After sending two emails and receiving no reply, courier PORTABLE tries with WhatsApp to contact the RECEIVER, but unfortunately still no response; dispatch HQL-577 waiting for a sign
2024-01-26：
快遞員易拎小姐是農歷新春佳節期間，數以百萬計的流動人口中的一員，儘管疫情時的機票抵消券意味著她要提前旅行，而且要在加拿大各地低效率地轉兩次機，十分勞累；她將和家人在家休息幾周，然後再北上紐約參加一個與出版有關的活動；HQL-577等待轉運
Courier Ms. PORTABLE is part of the millions moving during the Lunar New Year festival, though a COVID era ticket cancellation voucher means that she's traveling early and with a tiring two layovers inefficiently rounding across Canada; she will stay with family for a few weeks before heading back north to New York for a publication-related event; HQL-577 awaiting relay
蘇豪 Soho
在Wooster和Broome十字路口很害羞地收貨
Shyly received at Wooster and Broome Streets
曼哈頓 Manhattan
慢遞員易拎在紐約看到的各種景觀 Courier PORTABLE sightings in New York
慢遞員易拎在紐約看到的各種景觀 Courier PORTABLE sightings in New York
不成功的交流 WhatsApp non-communiqué
慢遞員易拎在紐約看到的各種景觀 Courier PORTABLE sightings in New York
達拉斯北 North Dallas
牛仔到達DFW機場 Cowboy arrival to DFW Airport
心形的樹 Heart-shaped trees in Texas
緩件號HQL-577在路上 Dispatch HQL-577 on the road
Poblano mac’n’cheese
亞洲超市 Asian supermarket
混合辣 Fusion spice
加拿大路途中 Canada in-transit
穿大笨象褲的遊客無處不在 The ubiquity of tourists with elephant pants
2024-07-03，19:28：
慢遞員李先生雖然「沒腦下棋」，但他起碼住在離有腦下棋的收件人很近；下樓五分鐘路程後，派送成功
COURIER Mr. SANDERSON does not "have the mind for chess", but at least he lives a 5-minute walk away from the chess night participant and RECEIVER's meeting spot; handover successful
2024-07-01，白天 daytime：
常任慢遞員李先生的優勢是可以不移動就從他自己的工作桌攬件，準備後天去在油麻地每月舉辦的九龍棋夜活動派送，緩件從土瓜灣拿好了帶回家
Frequent courier Mr. SANDERSON is able to pick up dispatch HQL-616 at his Tokwawan workspace desk in preparation for the upcoming delivery to Yaumatei at the monthly Kowloon Chess Night event
2024-07-03，07:40 UTC+01：
當香港慢遞轉運中心報告緩件HQL-614可能是展銷場經手的最快慢遞之一時，慢遞員南丫何回覆到：「Person-to-person delivery is actually the fastest！我確實完成了曾經從上海去到布達佩斯給一個公司【快過快遞】的服務，LOL；這像是稱之為【艙上遞送專差】」
When the LIGHT LOGISTICS relay centre in Hong Kong reports that dispatch HQL-614 may be one of the fastest Display Distribute has ever completed, courier Lamma HO replies：「人肉速遞其實係最快架 I actually have done this “faster than courier” service once from Shanghai to Budapest for a company LOL; there is a name for this, like “on board courier”」
2024-07-02，14:48 UTC+01：
慢遞員南丫島何十分高效的管理著他的時間，宣布他將在他到達倫敦後一天的週二拜訪收件人在Mosaic Rooms的辦公室；他在下午到了伯爵宮226克倫威爾，但「似乎沒有應門」，他沒能進入；好運的是，IG一些消息後，一切順利，收件人的同事能夠為這將辦的小型出版節及時接手緩件HQL-614
Courier Lamma HO is very efficient with his time, announcing that he'll visit the RECEIVER's office at Mosaic Rooms on Tuesday already, the day after his arrival to London; he arrives to 226 Cromwell in Earl's Court in the afternoon, but "seems like people aren’t answering the doors", and he is unable to enter; fortunately, a few IG messages later, all goes well and RECEIVER's colleague is able to take on dispatch HQL-614 well in time for the upcoming small press fest
2024-06-28，13:49：
一個對慢遞非常突發的時間扭動，展銷場這訂單下達前轉送就開啟了；因由黑書眾通訊邀請的巧合機會與The Mosaic Rooms的小型出版節團結一致，正好慢遞員南丫島何將從一個熱的島去一個冷的島度假，甚至沒有時間恰當的包裹緩件HQL-614；從香港離開去倫敦諷刺地安排在了七月一日，香港主權從大不列顛交回中國政府週年日的一天
A very sudden time-twist for LIGHT LOGISTICS, this relay begins before the Display Distribute order is even placed; because of the chance coincidence of an invitation for Black Book Assembly newsletters to stand in solidarity with The Mosaic Rooms' small press fest and courier Lamma HO's upcoming holiday from a hot island to a cold one, there is not even time to properly wrap and package dispatch HQL-614; departure from Hong Kong to London ironically scheduled for 1 July, the anniversary of Hong Kong's handover from Great Britain back to China
伯爵宮 Earl's Court
「是這個地方對嗎？」 This is the right place, right?
安全到達Mosaic Rooms的辦公室 Safely arrived to the office of Mosaic Rooms
KE +
SISSI +
YY +
廣州轉運站姑婆
Guangzhou Relay Centre GUPO +
Z
到達
COMPLETED：
2024-06-25，13:56
慢遞招募發布
ROUTE REQUESTED：
2021-12-23，20:47
2024-07-01，19:22：
收件人更新：「收到，謝謝！！我在齊齊哈爾呢…過些日子去杭州…8月去伊朗然後回俄羅斯。您最近會往北面走嗎？」
RECEIVER UPDATE：I'm now in Qiqihar, received! I'll go to Hangzhou in a few days... In August I go to Iran and then back to Russia; will you all come north soon?
2023-11-19，21:15：
收件人的朋友KE已經從SISSI家人取好HQL-498，到他回到齊齊哈爾會保管好緩件；收件人很期待過年放假從聖彼得堡回家看書
The receiver's friend KE has already picked up dispatch HQL-498 from SISSI's parents and will hold onto it until they return to Qiqihar; the receiver looks forward to seeing them when he returns from St. Petersburg for the Spring Festival holiday
2023-10-06，16:12：
慢遞員SISSI在回老家忙碌的短途旅行後，向收件人報告她已經離開了大連並返回上海，但已將緩件安全地存放在大連開發區的父母家中；等待收件人的朋友方便時轉接
After a busy, short trip back in her home town of Dalian, courier SISSI reports to the receiver that she's already left and returned to Shanghai, but has stored the dispatch safely at her parents' home in the development zone of Dalian; awaiting receiver's friend to relay at their convenience
2023-08-28，09:14：
慢遞員SISSI是個大連人，起碼能稍微接近齊齊哈爾一點點；她計畫秋天回大連，估計9月末-10月初的樣子，到時候會提前告知收件人；由於其中一本出版物的敏感性，收件人還被告知該書將被轉送到俄羅斯，因為收件人剛剛搬到那裡讀書
Courier SISSI is a Dalian native, a bit closer to the final destination of Qiqihar; she plans to go back to Dalian in autumn, probably the end of September or beginning of October, and she informs the receiver that she will contact him again then; because of the sensitivity of one of the publications, the receiver is also informed that the book in question will be delivered to Russia instead, where the receiver has just moved for continuing studies
2023-06-21，16:01：
在廣州轉運失敗後，HQL-498被送回香港，重新裝上獨立出版社副本製作之前缺乏的那一本，然後再遞給從上海來香港觀看龍舟賽的慢遞員SISSI
After the period of unsuccessful relay from Guangzhou, dispatch HQL-498 is returned to Hong Kong and restocked with the formerly missing volume from independent publisher Fuben, then redressed for relay to courier SISSI, who is visiting Hong Kong from Shanghai to watch the holiday period dragon boat races
2023-06-18，晚上 evening：
慢遞員YY小姐與HQL-498順利到達香港，準備在旺角待兩晚，然後從20號到港島天后住另外一家酒店；交接計畫於6月20日星期二下午三點
Courier Ms. YY successfully arrives in Hong Kong with dispatch HQL-498, to stay in Mongkok for two nights before moving to another hotel in Tinhau on the 20th; handover scheduled for Tuesday, 20 June at 3pm
2023-06-15，19:14：
有一個住在江南地區的東北慢遞員，即將要來到香港；為了準備一次合適的慢遞給她，緩件號HQL-498跟YY從廣州派回來香港，先補之前缺的一本《婦女的力量與社會翻轉》，再準備返大陸
An old Display Distribute friend and courier from the northeast who lives in the Jiangnan region is coming to Hong Kong soon; in order to prepare a suitable delivery for her, dispatch HQL-498 is sent back to Hong Kong from Guangzhou with courier YY, first to add the previously missing title The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community and secondly to wait for another trip back into the mainland
2023-02-09，15:17：
到達廣州海珠區中轉站啦
Arrival at the Guangzhou Relay Centre in Haizhu District
2023-01-20，20:23：
慢遞員Z和她老公從香港過關回北方的老家過年，從西九龍過關查老公的身份查了太久，誤車了，只能買四個小時後的不同車站，候車廳什麼都沒有，吃的都在香港那邊🥲；計畫春節後再經由廣州與廣州轉運站姑婆回合交接緩件HQL-498
Courier Mrs. Z and her husband depart from Hong Kong to spend the Lunar New Year Festival with family in the north; they depart from the West Kowloon high-speed rail station, but unfortunately face delays due to stringent checks of her husband's identity by border officials, resulting in a missed train; their only recourse is to take a different train to a different station four hours later without having any food available on site 🥲; dispatch HQL-498 handover planned for after the holiday when courier Z passes through Guangzhou on her way back to Hong Kong
齊齊哈爾 Qiqihar
收件人：「收到！謝謝！！」 RECEIVER：Received, thank you!!
新收件地點 NEW RECEIVER ADDRESS
「地址就聖彼得堡國立大學校門口，但是莫斯科、圣彼得堡、赫尔辛基都行～」 The address can just be the front gate of St. Petersburg University, but really if you can get to Moscow, St. Petersburg anywhere, or even Helsinki would be fine~
大連 Dalian
緩件HQL-498和慢遞員KE轉運中 Dispatch HQL-498 in relay with courier KE
徐匯區 Xuhui District
慢遞員SISSI在上海的「文化神龕」，包括一些香港明星
Courier SISSI’s shrine in Shanghai, featuring a few Hong Kong idols
香港裕記燒鵝（有米芝蓮星星喔！）在慢遞員SISSI家最C位的角落 Souvenir tissues from Hong Kong’s Yue Kee Roast Goose (Michelin starred!) placed at prime display positiion in courier SISSI’s home in Shanghai
慢遞員SISSI的日常環境 Courier SISSI’s everyday scene
慢遞員SISSI到上海做質量檢查 Dispatch inspection by courier SISSI after arrival in Shanghai
慢遞員SISSI到上海做質量檢查 Dispatch inspection by courier SISSI after arrival in Shanghai
又換了衣服 Another change of dress
又換了衣服 Another change of dress
退回香港 Returned to Hong Kong
緩件號HQL-498退回香港的地點 Dispatch HQL-498 returned to Hong Kong here
基础设施展示 Display of infrastructure
慢遞員YY在清風街16號 Courier YY at 16 Tsing Fung Street
HQL-498加了一本書也換了衣服，轉運給下一位慢遞員 A change of packaging with an insert of a new book, and a new courier
HQL-498在大奧過端午節在大奧 Dispatch HQL-498 spends the Dragon Boat Festival holiday in Tai O
大奧的龍舟賽 Dragon Boat races in Tai O
香港腳 😅 Hong Kong feet
到了機場準備轉上海 At Hong Kong airport awaiting relay to Shanghai
到了機場準備轉上海 At Hong Kong airport awaiting relay to Shanghai
慢遞員們SISSI和新野小姐一起回上海 Couriers SISSI and Ms. Xinye return to Shanghai together
廣州 Guangzhou
HQL-498到廣州可以再休息一下 HQL-498 resting in Guangzhou
HQL-498和廣州轉運站的貓咪鹿鹿 Dispatch HQL-498 with the Guangzhou Relay Centre cat Lulu
香港-東莞 Hong Kong - Dongguan
西九龍高速鐵路站 At the West Kowloon high-speed rail station in Hong Kong
2024-06-30，10:12 UTC+01：
收件人通知：「感謝您的留言！完全沒問題，不客氣！我認識塔羅牌收件人Z，期待新的一趟慢遞。我會從7月6日在倫敦，隨時都可以見面，也很樂意保管Christina帶來的塔羅牌。聽起來很不錯！我會關注更新的，謝謝你們的支持！」
RECEIVER NOTIFICATION：Thank you for the message! No problem at all, you're welcome! I know the tarot card receiver Z and look forward to the new slow delivery. I'll be in London starting from July 6th, and I'm available to meet anytime. Also, I'd be happy to hold on to the tarot cards that Christina will bring. It sounds amazing! I'll watch the updates, and thank you for your support!
2024-06-22，13:00 UTC+02：
慢遞員易拎慶幸她住在距新的慢遞員Christina SCHULTZ的工作室只有七分鐘的腳程的Grácia；她帶著她母親在去桂爾公園的遊客行程前去見面Christina，Christina給易拎的媽媽分享了她的作品；媽媽對Christina在紡織品上的縫紉畫難以置信的著迷，她們在易拎打包轉運去倫敦的三本出版物時交談了一會兒
Courier PORTABLE is fortunate that she is staying in Grácia just 7 minutes' walk away from new courier recruit Christina SCHULTZ's studio; she brings her mother to meet Christina before a touristic journey to Park Guell, and Christina shares her artwork with PORTABLE's mother; mother is incredibly fascinated by Christina's sewn drawings on textile, and they talk for a while while PORTABLE packages the three publications for relay to London
2024-06-16，17:00 UTC+02：
慢遞員易拎依然帶著需要轉運去歐洲別處的書，同時思考著如何做，她發現居住在巴塞羅那的藝術家Christina SCHULTZ將因一個戲劇商演項目和女性同居者在七月前往倫敦；這般幸運，SCHULTZ也會帶著她的迷你自出版塔羅牌遞送給一位8月份會去倫敦的收件人，就很樂意地多帶幾本了；預約了轉交時間，在慢遞員易拎離開巴塞羅那前
Courier PORTABLE is still carrying books that need to be relayed to other locales in Europe, and while thinking about what to do, she finds out that Barcelona-based artist Christina SCHULTZ will be traveling to London in July for a project with a theatre company working with female inmates; what luck, SCHULTZ will also bring her own mini publication of artist-made tarot cards to a RECEIVER in London and is more than happy to bring a few books as well; an appointment is made for a handover before PORTABLE's departure from Barcelona
2024-05-22，UTC+02：
西班牙總統，佩德羅·桑切斯，簽署了部長協議來推進承認巴勒斯坦國：「這是一個歷史性的唯一客觀公正的決定：為幫助促使以色列和巴勒斯坦間的和平。承認巴勒斯坦國不僅是一個符合巴勒斯坦人民合法訴求的歷史正義問題，也是一種緊迫的必須，如果我們所有人都想取得和平。」
The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro SÁNCHEZ, confirms that the Council of Ministers have approved the recognition of the State of Palestine: This is a historic decision with a single objective: to help Israelis and Palestinians reach peace. Recognition of the State of Palestine is not only a matter of historical justice to the legitimate aspirations of the people of Palestine. It is also an urgent necessity if we are all to achieve peace.
2024-05-21，11:33 UTC+02：
慢遞員易拎小姐與緩件HQL-608， HQL-602，HQL-603，和行李裡的 HQL-604落地；HQL-606在她肩上的背包中的一個小紙盒裡；一些延誤後，她到了她將在接下來待三週的公寓，HQL-608等待轉運至倫敦
Courier Ms. PORTABLE arrives with dispatches HQL-601, HQL-602, HQL-603 and HQL-606 in her luggage; HQL-605 is inside a small cardboard box which is inside a backpack which is on her shoulder; after a bit of delay, she arrives at the flat where she will stay for the next three weeks, HQL-608 awaiting relay to London
2024-05-20，between 23:50 UTC+08 and 2024-05-21 08:50 UTC +02：
在空中，何易拎小姐寫了9封電郵，其3靠蘇黎世的歪富愛發送，剩下則在到達巴塞羅那後送出；她還觀影了《美國小說》，一個作家諷刺玩笑般，在當前後-黑命攸關時代給白人的需好來寫作某種”黑“故事；當然書成為暢銷，他不能拒絕，因為他需要錢來幫助照顧他受苦於阿滋海默症的媽媽；期間何小姐並不真的認為這電影很好看，但她感激裡面許多聰明有理的對話 ——「我很感激他們在嘗試做」；她經常思考「如何解決」的問題，特別鑒於近來在她生活中出現的大量誤解和交流的小事故；當電影主角用手機跟他的出版社談話，試圖在一個後種族世界解決當代美國黑人生活的問題時，一個白人搶到他前面，攔走了他的出租車；易拎小姐看片時，她點了份牛肉米飯並被乘務員告知需要等待；她沒收到她的塑料餐盤（和意麵一起）直到其它人都吃完飛機餐並被收走他們的餐盤；這電影在繼續
While in air, Ms. PORTABLE writes nine e-mails, three of which are sent with wi-fi in Zürich, and the rest to be sent after arrival in Barcelona; she also watches one film called American Fiction, which is about an author who, as a sarcastic joke, writes the kind of 'black' story that white people need to consume in the current post-Black Lives Matter era; of course, the book becomes a hit, and he cannot say no because he needs the money to help take care of his Alzheimer's-stricken mother; while Ms. PORTABLE does not actually think the film is excellent overall, she appreciates many of the clever and en pointe dialogues——"i appreciate what they were trying to do"; she thinks often about the question of 'how to address', especially in light of the great deal of misunderstandings and mishaps of communication that have been occurring in her life lately; as the protagonist of the film talks on his mobile phone to his publisher, trying to address contemporary Black American life in a post-racist world, a white man walks in front of him and takes his cab; as Ms. PORTABLE watches the film, she orders the meal of beef with rice and is told by the flight attendant to wait; she does not receive her plastic tray (with pasta) until after everyone else has already finished eating and their trays have been cleared; the movie continues
2024-05-20，23:50：
慢遞員何易拎小姐從香港出發飛往巴塞羅那，旅程15個小時的瑞士航空及55分鐘的蘇黎世逗留；值機時，她幾乎被迫發現這趟飛行不再有靠窗或走道的座位，她的漫長飛行必須被擠壓在其它乘客中間；然而，登機至那被分配的32排座，在過道的男人詢問是否可以和他或那坐臨窗的女人交換座位，因為他們是一起的；何小姐超級開心地選了窗邊，傾斜著她的頭以對抗冷颼颼的強化塑料窗戶，此時飛機起飛
Courier Ms. PORTABLE departs from Hong Kong on 15-hour SwissAir journey to Barcelona with a 55-minute layover in Zürich; upon check-in, she was quite downtrodden to discover that there were no more window or aisle seats available, and she would have to be squeezed between other passengers for the long flight; however, upon arriving at her assigned row 32, the man in the aisle asks if it would be possible to change seats with either himself or the woman seated next to the window, because they are travelling together; Ms. PORTABLE is so happy and chooses the window seat, leaning her head against the chilly, reinforced plastic window as the plane takes off
恩典區 Gràcia
在巴塞羅那觀鳥
Birdwatching in Barcelona
HQL-608在慢遞員SCHULTZ的工作室廚房交接 HQL-608 handover to courier Christina SCHULTZ in the kitchen of her artist’s studio in Gràcia
慢遞員易拎同事遞給慢遞員 SCHULTZ的小禮物——她從香港到巴塞羅那穿的鞋子里留的幾粒沙子和一塊鵝卵石 A small token of appreciation from courier PORTABLE to courier SCHULTZ: a few grains of sand and a pebble that were brought in her shoe from Hong Kong to Barcelona
2024-06-28，12:28 UTC+01：
慢遞員MAY和收件人在國王十字地鐵站附近的Medway Court藥店碰面，MAY無意被一個叫子杰的狗仔拍攝——他是收件人的搭檔也是緩件號HQL-605中一些書籍的合作者，同是這到倫敦緩件的收件人；派送成功
Courier MAY and RECEIVER meet in front of a pharmacy at Medway Court in King's Cross, and MAY is unknowingly observed by a paparazzo known as June LEE, the partner of the RECEIVER and collaborator of some of the books from dispatch HQL-605, also part of the same order to London RECEIVER; dispatch HQL-606 successfully received
2024-06-23，19:28 UTC+01：
慢遞員MAY和收件人暫定6月28日下午3點後在國王十字路口的 UCL校園附近進行最後交收
Courier MAY and RECEIVER schedule a tentative appointment for a final appointment around the UCL campus at King's Cross on the 28th of June, some time after 3pm
2024-06-21，11:07 UTC+01：
慢遞員MAY更新：「安全到達倫敦！」
COURIER MAY UPDATE：Safe and sound in London!
2024-06-18，15:00 UTC+02：
正如預料的那樣，慢遞員MAY和易拎很容易就找到對方，並一同坐在在書店後面的樹蔭下，易拎一邊打包緩件號HQL-606，一邊就彼此的工作、巴塞羅那、愛情和看牙醫時的許多問題進行瞎聊；MAY喝著氣泡水，易拎喝義式濃縮；在對工作環境中由上至下的壓力表示同情時，MAY分享兩句易拎不會很快忘記的知識點：「你沒做的計劃不是我的迫切」和「我們不是在拯救生命」；她想到自己的呼吸變慢；HQL-606接力成功，新慢遞員MAY離開書店去看牙醫
As predicted, couriers MAY and PORTABLE spot one another easily and sit down together in the shade at the back of the bookshop; PORTABLE packages dispatch HQL-606 while the two engage in a blind conversation about one another's work, Barcelona, love, and asking many questions at the dentist; MAY drinks sparkling water, and PORTABLE takes a café solo; when commiserating the hand-me-down stress of the working environment, MAY shares two bits of crucial knowledge which PORTABLE will not soon forget: "Your lack of planning is not my urgency" and "We are not saving lives"; she thinks about her breath slowing down, and dispatch HQL-606 is successfully relayed; new courier MAY then heads from the bookshop to her dentist appointment
2024-06-18，10:24 UTC+02：
在她們預定約會的那天早上，新報名的慢遞員MAY選擇Libreria Finestres書店的露台咖啡廳作為她們的會面地點；她還提出可以戴一頂白帽子，以便更容易辨認，儘管她在IG上的肖像已經很容易辨認了；易拎報告說她是亞洲人，可能不難認出來
On the morning of their scheduled date, newly joined courier MAY selects the patio cafe of Libreria Finestres as their meeting point; she also offers to wear a white hat to make it easier to recognise, though her portraits on IG make it easy enough; PORTABLE reports that she is Asian and probably not difficult to spot
2024-06-11，21:03 UTC+02：
慢遞員MAY更新：「嗨，我會參加Sonar音樂節，可能下個星期會更好一些，要麼星期一（17號）或者星期二（18號）晚上？」
COURIER MAY UPDATE：Hey, I’ll be in Sonar, so i think the best will be the following week: Monday (17th) or Tuesday (18th) evening?
2024-05-24，09:25 UTC+02：
一個名叫MAY的人關注展銷場的IG，她的bio上寫道：「• whatever 研究 ••• 設計即藝術 •••• 觸摸植物 •••••• 關掉手機跳舞 📍 倫敦 - 巴塞羅那」；慢遞員易拎仍在尋找前往倫敦接力，跳水抓住機會跟一個陌生人聯繫，驚奇地發現MAY真的在倫敦和巴塞羅那之間穿行，她計劃下一次6月12日從英國到加泰羅尼亞，逗留約一周後返回倫敦——一場欣喜若狂的見面之約開始
A person by the name of MAY follows Display Distribute's Instagram, and her bio reads: "• Whatever research ••• Design as art •••• Touch the plants •••••• Turn off the phone & dance 📍London • Bcn"; as courier PORTABLE is still looking for relay couriers to London, she takes a chance to message a stranger and is amazed to find out that MAY is truly criss-crossing London and Barcelona, with her next trip from the UK to Cataluña planned for the 12th of June, to stay for approximately one week before returning to London; an ecstatic engagement to meet is set in motion
2024-05-22，UTC+02：
西班牙總統，佩德羅·桑切斯，簽署了部長協議來推進承認巴勒斯坦國：「這是一個歷史性的唯一客觀公正的決定：為幫助促使以色列和巴勒斯坦間的和平。承認巴勒斯坦國不僅是一個符合巴勒斯坦人民合法訴求的歷史正義問題，也是一種緊迫的必須，如果我們所有人都想取得和平。」
The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro SÁNCHEZ, confirms that the Council of Ministers have approved the recognition of the State of Palestine: This is a historic decision with a single objective: to help Israelis and Palestinians reach peace. Recognition of the State of Palestine is not only a matter of historical justice to the legitimate aspirations of the people of Palestine. It is also an urgent necessity if we are all to achieve peace.
2024-05-21，11:33 UTC+02：
慢遞員易拎小姐與緩件HQL-601， HQL-602，HQL-603，和行李裡的 HQL-604落地；HQL-606在她肩上的背包中的一個小紙盒裡；一些延誤後，她到了她將在接下來待三週的公寓，HQL-606等待轉運至倫敦
Courier Ms. PORTABLE arrives with dispatches HQL-601, HQL-602, HQL-603 and HQL-606 in her luggage; HQL-605 is inside a small cardboard box which is inside a backpack which is on her shoulder; after a bit of delay, she arrives at the flat where she will stay for the next three weeks, HQL-606 awaiting relay to London
2024-05-20，between 23:50 UTC+08 and 2024-05-21 08:50 UTC +02：
在空中，何易拎小姐寫了9封電郵，其3靠蘇黎世的歪富愛發送，剩下則在到達巴塞羅那後送出；她還觀影了《美國小說》，一個作家諷刺玩笑般，在當前後-黑命攸關時代給白人的需好來寫作某種”黑“故事；當然書成為暢銷，他不能拒絕，因為他需要錢來幫助照顧他受苦於阿滋海默症的媽媽；期間何小姐並不真的認為這電影很好看，但她感激裡面許多聰明有理的對話 ——「我很感激他們在嘗試做」；她經常思考「如何解決」的問題，特別鑒於近來在她生活中出現的大量誤解和交流的小事故；當電影主角用手機跟他的出版社談話，試圖在一個後種族世界解決當代美國黑人生活的問題時，一個白人搶到他前面，攔走了他的出租車；易拎小姐看片時，她點了份牛肉米飯並被乘務員告知需要等待；她沒收到她的塑料餐盤（和意麵一起）直到其它人都吃完飛機餐並被收走他們的餐盤；這電影在繼續
While in air, Ms. PORTABLE writes nine e-mails, three of which are sent with wi-fi in Zürich, and the rest to be sent after arrival in Barcelona; she also watches one film called American Fiction, which is about an author who, as a sarcastic joke, writes the kind of 'black' story that white people need to consume in the current post-Black Lives Matter era; of course, the book becomes a hit, and he cannot say no because he needs the money to help take care of his Alzheimer's-stricken mother; while Ms. PORTABLE does not actually think the film is excellent overall, she appreciates many of the clever and en pointe dialogues——"i appreciate what they were trying to do"; she thinks often about the question of 'how to address', especially in light of the great deal of misunderstandings and mishaps of communication that have been occurring in her life lately; as the protagonist of the film talks on his mobile phone to his publisher, trying to address contemporary Black American life in a post-racist world, a white man walks in front of him and takes his cab; as Ms. PORTABLE watches the film, she orders the meal of beef with rice and is told by the flight attendant to wait; she does not receive her plastic tray (with pasta) until after everyone else has already finished eating and their trays have been cleared; the movie continues
2024-05-20，23:50：
慢遞員何易拎小姐從香港出發飛往巴塞羅那，旅程15個小時的瑞士航空及55分鐘的蘇黎世逗留；值機時，她幾乎被迫發現這趟飛行不再有靠窗或走道的座位，她的漫長飛行必須被擠壓在其它乘客中間；然而，登機至那被分配的32排座，在過道的男人詢問是否可以和他或那坐臨窗的女人交換座位，因為他們是一起的；何小姐超級開心地選了窗邊，傾斜著她的頭以對抗冷颼颼的強化塑料窗戶，此時飛機起飛
Courier Ms. PORTABLE departs from Hong Kong on 15-hour SwissAir journey to Barcelona with a 55-minute layover in Zürich; upon check-in, she was quite downtrodden to discover that there were no more window or aisle seats available, and she would have to be squeezed between other passengers for the long flight; however, upon arriving at her assigned row 32, the man in the aisle asks if it would be possible to change seats with either himself or the woman seated next to the window, because they are travelling together; Ms. PORTABLE is so happy and chooses the window seat, leaning her head against the chilly, reinforced plastic window as the plane takes off
「剛剛在你們網頁下單了《撒尿詩》，後面發現你們的更新時間好像不是近期，想確定看看是否還能正常下單呢！」 I just purchased _Pee Poems_ from your website, but discovered it doesn't seem to update immediately, would like to confirm if my order was well received or not!
2024-06-14，17:00 UTC+01：
慢遞員廖先生定下出席參加放映活動作為最後的慢遞目的地，在Asymmetry基金會的總部； 活動後他去空間辦公室放緩件HQL-605，卻發現這辦公室正在裝修，所以他交給辦公室員工代之
COURIER Mr. LIAO decides to attend one of the screenings at the final delivery destination, headquarters of the Asymmetry Foundation; after the event he goes to space's office to leave dispatch HQL-605 but discovers that the office is under renovation, so he hands over to office staff instead
2024-06-07，18:30 UTC+01：
達到倫敦後，廖先生為最後的慢遞派送開始及時地與收件人行程預約；遺憾地是，她剛好不在，但消息了廖先生可以投遞書本的兩個活動地點
After arrival in London, Mr. LIAO promptly begins scheduling an appointment with RECEIVER in order to arrange final delivery; unfortunately, she is now away, but informs Mr. LIAO of two events where he may drop off the books instead
2024-06-07，早上 morning UTC+02：
慢遞員廖先生在巴塞羅那機場忍受了次六小時耐力挑戰，成功的讓他的飛機回到倫敦
Courier Mr. LIAO has endured a 6-hour endurance challenge at the airport in Barcelona, successfully making his flight back to London
2024-06-06，21:15 UTC+02：
在返回巴塞羅那的一個晚上，慢遞員廖先生有空接受來自慢遞員易拎小姐在西班牙廣場附近的ONCE禮堂裡的韓流舞蹈演出時交接的邀約；他們都沒有票，但靠著他們的魅力免費進場；交接成功l
Back in Barcelona for one evening, courier Mr. LIAO is free in the evening and accepts the invitation from courier Ms. PORTABLE to make a handover at a k-pop dance performance in Auditorio ONCE near Plaza de España; neither of them have a ticket, but manage with their charm to get in for free; handover successful
2024-06-02，17:39 UTC+02：
慢遞員易拎小姐和廖先生在易拎小姐居留的格拉西亞周圍的萊斯普斯站外碰面，這樣廖先生可以查看出版物並決定在僅有的隨身行李中能攜帶多少到倫敦；他們的會面中，廖先生講他將在返回前拜訪瓦倫西亞，固為了避免過量的攜帶，他們決定推遲交接直到廖先生再回到巴塞羅那乘飛機；替代交接緩件的是兩人享用了他們首份西班牙海鮮什錦飯
Couriers Ms. PORTABLE and Mr. LIAO meet outside of Lesseps station in the Gràcia neighbourhood where Ms. PORTABLE is staying so that Mr. LIAO can view the publications and decide what he would be able to bring to London when flying with only carry-on luggage capacity; during their meeting, Mr. LIAO shares that he will be visiting Valencia before returning, so in order to avoid excess carrying, they decide to postpone the handover until Mr. LIAO returns to Barcelona for his flight; the two enjoy their first seafood paella instead
2024-05-24，15:10 UTC+01：
收件人給似乎很需要分別派送的HQL-605找到首位慢遞員；目前，收件人介紹的新慢遞員廖先生，他是倫敦皮博迪圖書館的快遞作業者；廖先生將在31號週五到巴塞羅那；計畫在週末交接慢遞
RECEIVER finds a first courier for dispatch HQL-605, which is big enough that it will most likely need to be branch dispatched later; for now, RECEIVER introduces new courier Mr. LIAO, who is a courier and operator of Pidigin Library in London; Mr. LIAO will arrive to Barcelona on the Friday the 31st; plans are made for a courier handover to happen over the weekend
2024-05-22，UTC+02：
西班牙總統，佩德羅·桑切斯，簽署了部長協議來推進承認巴勒斯坦國：「這是一個歷史性的唯一客觀公正的決定：為幫助促使以色列和巴勒斯坦間的和平。承認巴勒斯坦國不僅是一個符合巴勒斯坦人民合法訴求的歷史正義問題，也是一種緊迫的必須，如果我們所有人都想取得和平。」
The President of the Government of Spain, Pedro SÁNCHEZ, confirms that the Council of Ministers have approved the recognition of the State of Palestine: This is a historic decision with a single objective: to help Israelis and Palestinians reach peace. Recognition of the State of Palestine is not only a matter of historical justice to the legitimate aspirations of the people of Palestine. It is also an urgent necessity if we are all to achieve peace.
2024-05-21，11:33 UTC+02：
慢遞員易拎小姐與緩件HQL-601， HQL-602，HQL-603，和行李裡的 HQL-604落地；HQL-606在她肩上的背包中的一個小紙盒裡；一些延誤後，她到了她將在接下來待三週的公寓，HQL-601 等待轉運至倫敦
Courier Ms. PORTABLE arrives with dispatches HQL-601, HQL-602, HQL-603 and HQL-606 in her luggage; HQL-605 is inside a small cardboard box which is inside a backpack which is on her shoulder; after a bit of delay, she arrives at the flat where she will stay for the next three weeks, HQL-601 awaiting relay to London
2024-05-20，between 23:50 UTC+08 and 2024-05-21 08:50 UTC +02：
在空中，何易拎小姐寫了9封電郵，其3靠蘇黎世的歪富愛發送，剩下則在到達巴塞羅那後送出；她還觀影了《美國小說》，一個作家諷刺玩笑般，在當前後-黑命攸關時代給白人的需好來寫作某種”黑“故事；當然書成為暢銷，他不能拒絕，因為他需要錢來幫助照顧他受苦於阿滋海默症的媽媽；期間何小姐並不真的認為這電影很好看，但她感激裡面許多聰明有理的對話 ——「我很感激他們在嘗試做」；她經常思考「如何解決」的問題，特別鑒於近來在她生活中出現的大量誤解和交流的小事故；當電影主角用手機跟他的出版社談話，試圖在一個後種族世界解決當代美國黑人生活的問題時，一個白人搶到他前面，攔走了他的出租車；易拎小姐看片時，她點了份牛肉米飯並被乘務員告知需要等待；她沒收到她的塑料餐盤（和意麵一起）直到其它人都吃完飛機餐並被收走他們的餐盤；這電影在繼續
While in air, Ms. PORTABLE writes nine e-mails, three of which are sent with wi-fi in Zürich, and the rest to be sent after arrival in Barcelona; she also watches one film called American Fiction, which is about an author who, as a sarcastic joke, writes the kind of 'black' story that white people need to consume in the current post-Black Lives Matter era; of course, the book becomes a hit, and he cannot say no because he needs the money to help take care of his Alzheimer's-stricken mother; while Ms. PORTABLE does not actually think the film is excellent overall, she appreciates many of the clever and en pointe dialogues——"i appreciate what they were trying to do"; she thinks often about the question of 'how to address', especially in light of the great deal of misunderstandings and mishaps of communication that have been occurring in her life lately; as the protagonist of the film talks on his mobile phone to his publisher, trying to address contemporary Black American life in a post-racist world, a white man walks in front of him and takes his cab; as Ms. PORTABLE watches the film, she orders the meal of beef with rice and is told by the flight attendant to wait; she does not receive her plastic tray (with pasta) until after everyone else has already finished eating and their trays have been cleared; the movie continues
2024-05-20，23:50：
慢遞員何易拎小姐從香港出發飛往巴塞羅那，旅程15個小時的瑞士航空及55分鐘的蘇黎世逗留；值機時，她幾乎被迫發現這趟飛行不再有靠窗或走道的座位，她的漫長飛行必須被擠壓在其它乘客中間；然而，登機至那被分配的32排座，在過道的男人詢問是否可以和他或那坐臨窗的女人交換座位，因為他們是一起的；何小姐超級開心地選了窗邊，傾斜著她的頭以對抗冷颼颼的強化塑料窗戶，此時飛機起飛
Courier Ms. PORTABLE departs from Hong Kong on 15-hour SwissAir journey to Barcelona with a 55-minute layover in Zürich; upon check-in, she was quite downtrodden to discover that there were no more window or aisle seats available, and she would have to be squeezed between other passengers for the long flight; however, upon arriving at her assigned row 32, the man in the aisle asks if it would be possible to change seats with either himself or the woman seated next to the window, because they are travelling together; Ms. PORTABLE is so happy and chooses the window seat, leaning her head against the chilly, reinforced plastic window as the plane takes off
倫敦田 London Fields
堡門貝利 Bromley-by-Bow
慢遞員廖先生的家，也是Pidgin Library目前的落腳點 Courier Mr. LIAO’s home and the current nest of the Pidgin Library
路途中 En route
「6個鐘頭機場挑戰」 Here we go!! 6-hour airport challenge
HQL-605準備上飛機
HQL-605 Ready for boarding
聖安托尼 Sant Antoni
慢遞員廖先生發現了一家可愛的巴塞羅那書店分享給慢遞員易拎 Courier LIAO Wenxi shares a Barcelona book store discovery with courier PORTABLE
易拎向廖文熙發送一張交接位置的非常模糊定位
PORTABLE sends WENXI a very loose interpretation of the handover location
長洲島 Changzhou Island
土瓜灣 Tokwawan
長洲島轉運站 Changzhou Island Relay Centre
火車上 On the train
長洲島 Changzhou Island
九龍 Kowloon
地鐵 MTR
成都 Chengdu
越秀 Yuexiu District
長洲島 Changzhou Island
韓國城 K-Town
洛杉磯 Los Angeles
維多利亞港 Victoria Harbour
大田區 Ōta
香港國際機場 Hong Kong International Airport
灣仔 Wanchai
徐匯區 Xuhui District
加泰隆尼亞廣場 Plaça de Catalunya
路途中 En route
