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| feral trade sweets |
| fresh sweets from Yazd (baghlava, qottab, pistachio, coconut and/or pussy-willow flavour) freighted in direct via hand baggage from the Islamic Republic of Iran, keep refrigerated.
http://www.feraltrade.org/sweets.
ferally traded since: 04/06/05.
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| | FER-1510 | | Haj Khalifeh Ali Rahbar Yazd, Iran to New Cross London, UK | | dispatched 17/10/09 delivered 04/11/09 |
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| sweets shipment FER-1510
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| REMARKS: | yazdi sweets, baghlava, qottab and other, for direct distribution to sweets subscribers UK. please refrigerate. |
| QTY: | 22 units at aluminium box each |
| FROM: |
Haj Khalifeh Ali Rahbar in Yazd, Iran
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| TO: |
New Cross in London, UK
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| SENDER: | kate rich |
| RECEIVER: | kate rich |
| REQUESTED: | to ship between 15/10/09 and 15/11/09 |
| STATUS: | delivered New Cross 04/11/09 |
| MAP | route map |
| www.feraltrade.org |
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COURIER:
 kate rich
rasha shaheen
Azar
Olga Goriunova
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| TOTAL ROUTE:
Haj Khalifeh Ali Rahbar-Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport-London Heathrow Airport--New Cross |
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| sweets Haj Khalifeh Ali Rahbar to New Cross
1. haj kahlifeh shop exterior 2. sample 3. box pistachio situation 4. sweets order progress 5. sweets transport yazd 6. sleeper train sweets strorage 7. tehran kitchen boxes |
| Shipping Facts |
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| FER-1510 import purchase & freight
| | 22 x sweets aluminium box | gross | per aluminium box |
| sweets purchase from haj khalifeh shop | £45 |
£2.05 |
| taxi haj khalifeh to yazd station | £1 |
£0.05 |
| sleeper train yazd-tehran | £4 |
£0.18 |
| tehran city bus | £0.1 |
£0.00 |
| transport tehran-london courtesy azar | £0 |
£0.00 |
| excess baggage fee leveraged at tehran airport | £40 |
£1.82 |
| total | £90.1 | £4.10 |
| | Courier Report FER-1510 DISPATCHED: 17/10/09 DELIVERED: 04/11/09 kate rich It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than to export fresh sweets from YAZD, IRAN to BRISTOL and LONDON UK, in Autumn 2009. ABOUT. These SWEETS have been manufactured for 94 years in the factory shop of HAJ KHALIFEH ALI RAHBAR in the desert city of YAZD. Unlike other common commodities, where prices have hiked drastically in the past few years (vegetables double, fruit tripled, electricity and
other Government provided services up to 5x up while wages remain static) the sweets have held their relatively low price at source of 2.4-3.5 thousand Toman (1.20- 2.00GBP) per 500g box. It is possible this is a strategic decision by the Haj Kahlifeh company to retain consumer
attraction in a competitive market. INGREDIENTS are all Iranian, the sugar is from GHAND a solid form of sugar normally served as jagged cubes with tea. Despite their constitution as a
major PRESERVATIVE, the sweets produced fresh in the factory shop 17/10/09 demonstrate FRAGILITY of lifespan, specifically PISTACHIO flavour, subsequently swapped out from Feral Trade's box selection due to its liability to collapse in transport. SHIPPING. Departing Yazd in trader baggage, sweets travelled by SLEEPER train to Tehran and lugged to traders accommodation by public bus with the help of co-traveller RASHA SHAHEEN. As UK currently prohibits food products from Iran and other 3rd world countries arrival via mail (UK will refuse and return) ditto unaccompanied baggage (normally the cheapest shipping method), a courier had to be located.
I met AZAR (who prefers her surname to remain anonymous) at a party in the house of a mutual friend in Tehran. |
Azar PART ONE- Tehran
When I accept to carry 10 kilos of sweets to London, for a 'stranger'
girl I met only once in a friend's party, almost everyone considers me as a
total fool! How could you trust her?! they say. and even if there is no
problem with sweets, 'why' should you carry that much extra luggage for
someone you don't even know? I answer: well... the fact is... yes I am crazy!
and crazy people trust their first impressions! i just 'liked' the way Kate
made this strange networked business of sweet smuggling! and then
I 'liked' to help them!! that simple. this is my reason! ( Though later in
the airport, when I was exhausted by pulling those heavy bags, for moments I
wondered by myself: what the hell I am doing?!).
PART TWO-London:
After arrival in New cross, i make an appointment with Olga,one of Kate's
friends, for collecting the sweets from my house. She lives nearby and says
she will come with her little son and a friend of her who has bicycle to
carry the boxes. When they arrive in the dark cold evening, i invite them to
come in and have a cup of tea before leaving. I live with my student friend
and soon we all start to talk: about sweets and weather, to post-election
Iran and student life in London...and then comes a moment that we absolutely
astonish by the incredibility of something called 'co-incident':
On the same day's morning, my friend has come to me with an amazing book he
recently found in the Uni in relation to his MA program. Since morning we
have just talked about the book, discussed some passages for hours, and
appreciated the brilliant mind of its author...well, now guess what? Olga's
friend is the author of the book!! in our house, just in the same
afternoon!!
when they are gone, my friend and I stare at each other for a moment, and
then burst with laugh:
WHAT A SMAAAL WORLD!
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| freight and handling sweets to New Cross sponsored by |
| | FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org |
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