親愛的大家,

我拿到了，謝謝你@Amy給的HumDrumPress的書，它們真精彩！！我會隨時告訴你們Urban Kitsch的小夥伴在曼谷的地點。我在週二起飛，這樣我們可以做些安排。

很開心加入這網絡，並期待著在今年書展展銷場和Theetat的同謀！

最好的祝願,
Belle

Dear All,

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!

Best,
Belle

大家好,

快速更新。出版物已經成功交給研究中心圖書管理/接待處桌子 裡面。他們已經知道你會在下午某時來取走這些書，Belle。

我也放了三本HumDrumPress的書給你，Belle :-)

謝謝大家！
溫暖祝福，
Amy

HumDrumPress
出版作為實踐

Hello everyone,

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 :-)

Thanks everyone!
Warm wishes,
Amy

HumDrumPress
publishing as practice

這週末我不在所以現在會去辦公室待一整天。非常感謝把這轉運工作/緩件線路促到一起，所有的。我非常高興可以幫忙送Reliable Copy的書去到目的地點

Belle，我一整天都會在辦公室辦公，但現在在將書放在WdKA接待處的路上（接待處靠近研究中心）。書上有一個給你的便簽條，郵件附件裡有付照片，

請告訴我如果你在收取時有任何麻煩。我會在下午5點結束工作，如果需要我可以在回家途中經過WdKA 。

暖心祝願，
Amy

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

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

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

慢遞員你好，

很高興通知這份包裹已經跟多加的「乘客」Travelling Bagsby環遊世界環保袋項目安全派送給收件人啦。附件已加相關的照片。

多謝！

-RH

Hello LIGHT LOGISTICS,

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.

Thank you!

-RH

你好RH，

我好久沒有跟這個訂單但OMG，真的好刺激！

好高興網上認識你，也非常感謝你能夠帶我的書過來。希望你路上一切溫馨在舊金山待的愉快。

很樂意在舊金山任何地方會合（我住在市政中心附近，如果這條信息有幫助）。你會待多久？我週六在外地，可是週日之後都有空。可以一起喝一杯咖啡/吃/散散步！

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

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

冰咖啡
出租車上：
空跑的
頂端放著輕微的
蓋過底部的一類
感受，
在邊緣 但是，
這般興高采烈
是的，睡眠困乏，確信
&太多奇蹟&
愚笨的相信；更多
愛神一樣
再一次！交付
在不可能的一邊
我的前世
（過去兩週）
洋蔥外皮
（成泥的大蒜）
從邊框上脫落
露出些深池
杯子的灰，像
蘇菲塔羅牌：給瑪莉安的禮物
和著這明了
與淚滿的感激
真實黑暗的影 同在

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.

你好LY，

很遺憾聽到你的工作情況，LY。希望你現在的情況有所好轉。我這週末要去劍橋參加一個會議，可以把你的訂單轉給你。請隨時通過 Whatsapp 聯繫我： +1 929 XXX XXXX。

謝謝也祝好，
นนท์

Hi LY,

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.

Thanks and hope you are well,
NON

你好！
不好意思花了那麼長時間才回覆。在七月底被解雇了，現在還在找工作。這段時間壓力很大，試著找到解決辦法......同時也想重新振作起來！

我現在就在波士頓，還要在這裡待九天。

9月6-11日要離開 ，9月12-30日又在波士頓。

你這兩段時間有沒有可能到波士頓來？明天給你WhatsApp！

祝好，L

Hi!

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

我的老天！真是天意作美！哇嗚，哇嗚，真是驚奇。太感謝你帶著我的書去如此這般的冒險旅行！我借我的書感同身受了，我如此想念香港......好久都沒有現在這樣感到是在家裡！

我還在劍橋，遺憾的是眼下我不會去到紐黑文。

不過我有個朋友在紐黑文，他可能會好心存放好我的書並在什麼時候遞給我。你看，我將一些天後在冰島旅遊，直到8/9才返回。

我會問我朋友是否可以幫我取書。他在紐黑文DAE工作，是一個非營利的藝術教育空間。空間在770教堂街。在你投放慢遞去那裡前讓我確認他是不是願意幫忙。慢遞員朋友會在紐黑文待多久？我注意到一個PhD八月十六的註腳。那是在紐黑文嗎？即便這慢遞員朋友可以投放我的書給我（即將成為慢遞員的）朋友（哈），我真想什麼時候見見這位國際慢遞員朋友，然後請大家吃個飯。

大家帶著我的書有這樣的漫旅，我真的好感動！非常謝謝你們持續的試圖聯絡我。

千萬份的感激你們，希望某天我們相見

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

再次謝謝大家！

PILOU，這週六晚上我會在我工作室放Agnès Varda的《天涯淪落女》（慶祝婦女節），歡迎你過來Bourbonnais街XX號，晚上8點前都可以，你行的話跟我說一聲，不然我們再約另一個時間/地點。謝謝你，很快見面！

JM

Thank you again to everyone!

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!

JM

大家好，

書本給了LÜ，之後轉了PILOU；PILOU下個星期會去里昂。
PILOU和收件人JM，你們可以聯繫一下在里昂回合。
如果你們想分享任何慢遞過程中的信息，請發給展銷場的物流員，他們會收集所有資料，感謝！

LÜ，祝你英國過得開心！

拙雅

Hello everyone,

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

第一次參與人肉慢遞，但其實關於書本的跨國界流通已經思考了好一段時間。COVID期間，因為想在柏林開書店，就發現書店這回事除了是透過書本作為知識文化傳播的場域，更大程度上是關於物流，關於書本作為知識文化的載體，如何在物理空間流通，跨越各種邊界，到達何種場域，以何種方式，接觸到何樣受眾。寫這一段時，我剛通過了香港機場的重重關卡，來到登機閘口前，等待登上前往台北的航班。而我的人肉慢遞貨物現時應該在我的行李箱內，被機場地勤人員以我看不見的另一些通道，運上客機。我想起那些早已習以為常的程序、關卡、通道、轉換站、等候處、檢查站⋯⋯人的移動是物流，文化的移動也是物流。

這問題完全佔據了大腦空間，毎次遇到以書本為媒介的同行我總是劈頭便問關於物流的問題：你們是怎麼把書運來？ 去年跟Common Imprint的Sam談起，他說他毎次出門總是自己扛100公斤的行李回來，並提及展銷場，後來這個名字屢次在不同的場合出現，到後來我自己也成為了其中一名慢遞員。

這次來台北參與台北書展，我仍然是逢人便問關於書的物流的問題。我發現即使在資訊發達的今天，獨立出版界仍未有很系統的發行方法，都是靠持份者有機自發組織一些物流操作，分享資源，互相協助。這連結網絡包括了部份香港、台灣及海外香港人書店群體。概念與操作上跟人肉慢遞未必完全符合，但都是關於人與人之間的連結：「一人做啲，托起大家」。

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."

初二。最近我都痴迷在找出最便宜的交通方式，主要作為簡化決策的規則，並嘗試用不同的方式在香港移動。我來自一個難有機會思考這些東西的地方，因為能夠逃避（以前更容易），或者說因為它無論走去哪裡、出於什麼必須，都是一樣的價格。在香港通常巴士（不算上夜巴）比較便宜，但我附近有$2「嘟嘟」地鐵節省機，所以乘地鐵更划算。

我想看看我的周圍在農曆新年期間是什麼樣子的。在取包裹前，我真希望能在靠近接頭點的巴基斯坦小食店買到茶和小吃，唉，他們也關門了。然而德斯市場開著，我打算拿一大包紅扁豆（這完美的適用在抑鬱、偷懶、節儉時做飯，因為它和煮熟大米的時間一樣，便可以在電飯煲裡一起煮了）。之前，這市場有個給巴勒斯坦的捐款箱，今天也不在收銀台那裡了。反常的是，周圍有大型旅遊巴士和大陸遊客。我不太理解他們為什麼來這裡旅遊。據我所知，這裡不是一個旅遊打卡點。在發件人員的幫助下，我取到了包裹。乘上九龍到港島的渡船。成功跟接力慢遞員在約好的時間碰面。然後我走了15分鐘赴第二個約，退掉我在Carousell上得到的電熱毯，它壞了。

從整個慢遞經驗讓我懷念起在另一個城市遞送大麻的事。計畫路線讓人真切的感到滿足，哪裡是對自己和對將碰面的人的最佳地點，特別是何時需要到達。除外，給自己留下旅行的機會，並對對方也好。體驗到意外之物，就像在渡輪碼頭旁，好巧有個漁市場那樣。

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.

嗨，親愛的S，
感謝詢問我今天要不要來，但我有個朋友突然來到布魯克林，所以我沒辦法去。我在考慮下週三或週五。妳介意告訴我什麼時候不在（或會在）嗎？

在紐約一切都很好，我的日子大多數都是和朋友聚聚，懶洋洋地走來走去。讓炎炎夏日放慢我的作息和思緒。這是威廉斯堡Quimby's店裡貓的照片，我在那裡買了一大堆小誌。
在遠離讀書人和雜誌買家的世界中酣睡

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.

我現在在香港國際機場給你寫郵件。很興奮去到紐約也很興奮拜訪交接的地方Bungee Space和見到你，S！謝謝你的接待。我在考慮週五，七月五號過去，如果對你也方便。

有趣的是，當我從香港慢遞一些書去紐約，我不知道也沒有任何假想都會是什麼書。其實在我取書時也有一本還未讀的「離開的舉措」，在學校我的辦公室裡。

所以決定週六下午我去藝鵠書店取得其它本後在飛機上讀這書。我打算隨意給朋友賣些書。我已經對這漫長的飛行感到焦慮（自從2020年新冠大流行就沒在飛行過這麽長程），也許有這書的陪伴和與緩件包裹的同步會帶給我安慰。

下邊是圖片和到目前的旅行說明。

保重，
Charis

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

親愛的收件人，

儘管只有一個同城的、隔著小海港的距離，我們的緩送還是拖延了很久，希望你不會為此太憂心。將包裹遞給你時，我注意到你微弱的好奇心，我猜你可能已經忘記在9月所下的訂單。但願你能對突如其來也有所鍾意。我們香港的線路可能相較其它少一些遲緩因素，但老實說這單的內容讓我憂慮，比之前更憂慮。但是在國安法建立後的現在，在如此多有罪的判決後，更多在兩個制度下對自由的感受之後，所以我一直在退縮，踮著腳尖。對獨立出版和書商來說真是糟糕的一年，進入國安局“敏感”知識共享的獸穴所製造的戲劇場景在我腦中如探照燈般旋轉。但這次交付一直沒被忘記，我決心「fulfill」。所以是今天，在去灣仔和上灣做別的差事和拜訪前，我打包了一份騎馬釘裝的小誌，用DVD保持其硬度，包裝紙是幾週前在深圳灣大巴站推銷阿姨給我的Sogo百貨廣告單（典型推銷行為在一個不典型的地方，但這正好洞察到因為邊境放寬，大陸客訪港率上升了17%）。如果從各個方向越來越容易進入到這個城市，循環內部如何能夠被篩入差異的混合物，來使得歷史和上腳鐐的過去稍稍更多流動，至少，延緩水泥的硬化？儘管我們試圖保持運動，前景卻嚴峻。這又算什麼呢？

但我害怕了。不同以往我會先建立聯繫，這次我決定先確認你在鲗鱼涌工業大廈的收件地址，作為無論它對個人去遞送足夠安全的測試——或能找到一個信箱，或逃跑時的掩體。好在今天的天氣公正剛好，並且意料之外的，在搭乘渡船去見你前我在我的八達通卡里收到137港刀的紅利。這一定是HQL-648里的自由-點。渡輪後，對比鮮魚價格，再四站叮叮車，我到了並在漫長和掛慮中等待電梯，它的玻璃牆透過另一座建築的亮潔失真供出海港的反射光。首要的，玻璃表面，一個好兆頭。窗戶裡貼著一張現代舞海報，堆滿紙箱沒有接待員的土色調前台。至少比之前HQL-629收件地址的空殼公司強。在我坐在過道給你的緩件寫標籤時，一位年輕的女性經過進去你的地方，消失在轉角後，我想像也許是你。當我終於鼓起勇氣按下門鈴，換了一個高高的男人來應鈴，我向他詢問你，那微弱的好奇心，你來了。

Dear RECEIVER,

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.

剛收到書和多倫多的慢遞！（<--有空的時候也請給我發一下那個的信息：）)今天早上我們到了唐人街見面，在KAT最愛的地方吃了呀咪腸粉和粥。紐約非常潮濕的一天！也聽到KAT講這本書，好期待看！可我要再欣賞一下包裝後再打開，哈哈。KAT，再次謝謝你帶過來給我，也謝謝那麼美好的早餐，真的很喜歡跟你聊天！

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和我在唐人街見面，一起吃了個晚早餐——聊了一些行動組織&藝術&創作方面的。我把包裹傳遞給她，很興奮她可以讀到我在東京往紐約的飛機上開始讀的《離開的舉動》

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.

今天早些時候，我去和合石公墓找我婆婆的墓。整個夏天我都在為此焦慮，主要以我糟糕的粵語來發明花樣藉口（我要怎麼告訴出租車去哪裡？怎樣能得到幫助找到那塊墓？），加上我姨媽能從她母親那裡證實的有限少量的信息：婆婆去逝的年份和她的名字。我姨媽上次看到那墓地是在1969年，在她離開香港去美國前。成長中我唯一知道的事是：我婆婆因為子宮癌去逝時我媽媽才四歲。我姨媽告訴我，每一次她和我媽媽和她們的兄弟去掃墓，我媽媽都會生病。當他們爬墓地的那些巨大丘陵，她就“擺脫了她身體裡的一切“，姨媽這麼講，意思是我媽媽吐了。這是我聽到的關於我母親童年的少數事情之一；在我青春期的時候她死了。這故事一直困惑著我，直到我發現自己走在和合石靈灰安置所那裡，汗水直流並感到恐慌，試圖找人來救命。那裡有的根本不是丘陵；他們得登頂的是確鑿的大山。這比喻，我也懂了。

一個叫Ricky的工作人員幫助了我；這一段解釋太長，所以略過，直到汗水落到他幫我打印出來我婆婆墓地（可能）位置的紙上，我按照他的指示叫了另一輛出租車帶我上去墓地蜿蜒的山，到那些最久遠的區域。

一個鐘後，在山側一排排墓碑裡繞來繞去，我找到了我婆婆。

（後來我打電話給姨媽告訴她這件事——我用有限的粵語和她有限的英語交談——感覺這個夏天本該如此。對「寫得不夠」或「粵語學得不夠」或「看太多慾望都市」（？？？什麼？？？我也不知道）的任何內疚都蒸發了）

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.)

我唯一哥哥的婚禮結束是在上午11點，與同事朋友一起的路上也同樣充滿情感。我們一起總共十年了。但起初，來自小食攤鋪符號那樣的紐約培蛋芝士，沒有引起我任何感受。

我先碰面了我在大學時第一個認識的朋友，Trevor。他一直是個學者和寫作者，現在也是一位教授，和他的丈夫住在西弗吉尼亞。我們討論似乎相同的方式和比我們更年輕自我的方式的不同感受。

緩件HQL-600在Printed Matter的最終目的地（絕大因素）使得我們重聚。我的雙眼起霧。我想起那些不按線性移走的時光，但按著三維的螺旋，在一個主題上帶著細微差異循環往復。

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.

你好，
我只想感謝您——今晚早些時候，我和快遞員碰面並領取了這本書！

我很感謝你們花了這麼多時間和人力物力把這本書送到我手上——考慮到這本書的運送路線跨越了多年和多個大洲，這是一個了不起的成就。我真的衷心感謝您，以及所有參與其中的人！

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!

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.

慢遞員到聖達菲藝術學院停車處遞送東西。慢遞員並不精通關於物流的用語，所以他向著在加利福利亞目的地的慢遞途中，他一直在考慮什麼是適合在他稍後到達旅館並有時間可以記下的。他曾告訴他那時開啟慢遞項目的人物之一的朋友，比起

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.

嗨，親愛的S，
感謝詢問我今天要不要來，但我有個朋友突然來到布魯克林，所以我沒辦法去。我在考慮下週三或週五。妳介意告訴我什麼時候不在（或會在）嗎？

在紐約一切都很好，我的日子大多數都是和朋友聚聚，懶洋洋地走來走去。讓炎炎夏日放慢我的作息和思緒。這是威廉斯堡Quimby's店裡貓的照片，我在那裡買了一大堆小誌。
在遠離讀書人和雜誌買家的世界中酣睡

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.

我現在在香港國際機場給你寫郵件。很興奮去到紐約也很興奮拜訪交接的地方Bungee Space和見到你，S！謝謝你的接待。我在考慮週五，七月五號過去，如果對你也方便。

有趣的是，當我從香港慢遞一些書去紐約，我不知道也沒有任何假想都會是什麼書。其實在我取書時也有一本還未讀的「離開的舉措」，在學校我的辦公室裡。

所以決定週六下午我去藝鵠書店取得其它本後在飛機上讀這書。我打算隨意給朋友賣些書。我已經對這漫長的飛行感到焦慮（自從2020年新冠大流行就沒在飛行過這麽長程），也許有這書的陪伴和與緩件包裹的同步會帶給我安慰。

下邊是圖片和到目前的旅行說明。

保重，
Charis

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

嗨，親愛的S，
感謝詢問我今天要不要來，但我有個朋友突然來到布魯克林，所以我沒辦法去。我在考慮下週三或週五。妳介意告訴我什麼時候不在（或會在）嗎？

在紐約一切都很好，我的日子大多數都是和朋友聚聚，懶洋洋地走來走去。讓炎炎夏日放慢我的作息和思緒。這是威廉斯堡Quimby's店裡貓的照片，我在那裡買了一大堆小誌。
在遠離讀書人和雜誌買家的世界中酣睡

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.

我現在在香港國際機場給你寫郵件。很興奮去到紐約也很興奮拜訪交接的地方Bungee Space和見到你，S！謝謝你的接待。我在考慮週五，七月五號過去，如果對你也方便。

有趣的是，當我從香港慢遞一些書去紐約，我不知道也沒有任何假想都會是什麼書。其實在我取書時也有一本還未讀的「離開的舉措」，在學校我的辦公室裡。

所以決定週六下午我去藝鵠書店取得其它本後在飛機上讀這書。我打算隨意給朋友賣些書。我已經對這漫長的飛行感到焦慮（自從2020年新冠大流行就沒在飛行過這麽長程），也許有這書的陪伴和與緩件包裹的同步會帶給我安慰。

下邊是圖片和到目前的旅行說明。

保重，
Charis

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

剛收到書和多倫多的慢遞！（<--有空的時候也請給我發一下那個的信息：）)今天早上我們到了唐人街見面，在KAT最愛的地方吃了呀咪腸粉和粥。紐約非常潮濕的一天！也聽到KAT講這本書，好期待看！可是，我還是先多欣包裝一天再打開吧，哈哈。KAT，再次謝謝你帶過來給我，也謝謝那麼美好的早餐，真的很喜歡跟你聊！

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和我在唐人街碰面，一起吃遲到的早餐——我們聊了組織+藝術+做事。我遞交了包裹，十分興奮她會讀到《最後的街市》，是我從東京到紐約市的飛機上開始讀的那本。

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.

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

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

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

你好，

沒事的：）需要多長時間就多長時間，謝謝你來信。你好嗎？
我認識一位，對的。你還在巴塞羅那嗎？你還在的話要認識一下我的朋友M，另外還有一個項目空間叫Malpais，營運空間的J偶爾來巴塞爾因為他的搭檔住那裡，我可以幫你聯絡一下。

擁抱，J

HALLO,

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.

Abrazos, J

想跟你分享你訂購的書已經到達歐盟！最後，還是我帶來的，哈哈哈，這樣的靠近你，在蘇黎世機場，但只是一個快速的轉機，說聲問安，然後繼續前往巴塞羅那，我現在在了······你知道有誰在這個方向旅行就可以幫忙帶書返回瑞士了？

希望你很好，期待多聊聊，如果時間能慢下來些······

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...

嗨，親愛的S，
感謝詢問我今天要不要來，但我有個朋友突然來到布魯克林，所以我沒辦法去。我在考慮下週三或週五。妳介意告訴我什麼時候不在（或會在）嗎？

在紐約一切都很好，我的日子大多數都是和朋友聚聚，懶洋洋地走來走去。讓炎炎夏日放慢我的作息和思緒。這是威廉斯堡Quimby's店裡貓的照片，我在那裡買了一大堆小誌。
在遠離讀書人和雜誌買家的世界中酣睡

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.

我現在在香港國際機場給你寫郵件。很興奮去到紐約也很興奮拜訪交接的地方Bungee Space和見到你，S！謝謝你的接待。我在考慮週五，七月五號過去，如果對你也方便。

有趣的是，當我從香港慢遞一些書去紐約，我不知道也沒有任何假想都會是什麼書。其實在我取書時也有一本還未讀的「離開的舉措」，在學校我的辦公室裡。

所以決定週六下午我去藝鵠書店取得其它本後在飛機上讀這書。我打算隨意給朋友賣些書。我已經對這漫長的飛行感到焦慮（自從2020年新冠大流行就沒在飛行過這麽長程），也許有這書的陪伴和與緩件包裹的同步會帶給我安慰。

下邊是圖片和到目前的旅行說明。

保重，
Charis

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

抱歉這延遲的回覆！我從北半球回來，這讓我花了些時間找到我的腳和克服時差🙃

我收到了這運輸包裹！非常享受地讀完全部內容並與之共度時光，這出版物和你們弄的分發工作真是新奇提神。

來自梅洛恩的大號問候，希望你都很好。

暖暖的，
L

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.

Warmest,
L

哈囉 L,

剛剛郵寄了！換了包裹箱子但價格不變，不幸運:(...

好處是有收據/追件信息，你可以點擊查看線路，編碼：EA363229760HK

如果你正好有Wise帳戶來直接以港幣轉帳費用就太好了，如果沒有，PayPal也行。請不要用商品/服務來標記轉帳，PayPal會因此收費。

我有為你額外列入一出版物HomeShop，稱作《我的負能量是你的正能量， or 或者， The Grin Without the Cat》，其中的迷你故事集基於家作坊暫停後一些模擬人類學博物館的呈現，作為一份對當時許多事物和簡史的導覽指南...

希望你悅讀，再次感激你支持我們微妙的，半自主的出版嘗試！

Hallo L,

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!

你好J，
高興認識你，也好高興終於能把妳和妳的書連起來拉！

我將於7月12日至15日在布里斯班，往返於Wishart（12-13日）和 Taringa（14-15日）之間。如果妳能安排人從這兩個地方來取，那就太好了！否則，7月15日星期一是我最空閒的一天，所以我可以去相互都方便的地方。

谢谢，
TIAN

Hi J,

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

親愛的H
是的！OK！妳還用什麼SNS嗎？也許更方便那天聯繫。
我的消息人：bXXXXXXX
我的電話：0804XXXXXXX
妳有時間見面是一起在車站附近的this cafe 喝個咖啡嗎？

來不及也沒關係，我們就在站前碰面就好。 消息我！

x Boat

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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!

x Boat

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親愛的H
こんにちは！
您住哪裡？我住在多摩川駅（東横線）、大田区附近。因為我要照顧一個6個月大的嬰兒，如果您可以跟我在東横線附近，比如自由が丘或者渋谷駅付近會最好！
其實我最方便的地點是二子玉川駅，因為我可以做巴士到那邊。
說真的，東京很大，請您告訴我您在哪裡，我們找一個好地方碰面！
祝好， 小船

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