feral trade sweets
from Haj Khalifeh Ali Rahbar Yazd, Iran
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.
FER-1519
New Cross London, UK to General Public Agency London, UK
dispatched 12/12/09 delivered 12/12/09
sweets shipment FER-1519
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QTY: 2 units at aluminium box each
FROM: New Cross in London, UK
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TO: General Public Agency in London, UK
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SENDER:kate rich
RECEIVER: Clare Cumberlidge
REQUESTED: to ship between 10/12/09 and 24/12/09
STATUS: delivered General Public Agency 12/12/09
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COURIER: kate rich  rasha shaheen  Azar  Olga Goriunova  kate rich 
TOTAL ROUTE:  Haj Khalifeh Ali Rahbar-Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport-London Heathrow Airport-New Cross--General Public Agency

 
sweets New Cross to General Public Agency 1. sweets to general public agency
Shipping Facts
FER-1510 import purchase & freight
22 x sweets aluminium boxgrossper 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-1519 DISPATCHED: 12/12/09 DELIVERED: 12/12/09 kate rich saul was going to deliver but got too busy & left for copenhagen, the bastard. luckily i was passing thru the area before too late. bus 21 from brockley gardens to borough market gorged with crowd greed of gourmet saturday market shoppers. slunk through to general public agency and dropped bagged sweets through the letterbox, labelled for clare so the architects wouldnt grab them first as per her instructions. queue jumped monmouth coffee monster queue for a coffee to take the edge off natural sense of aggression.
onward transit of FER-1510 from Haj Khalifeh Ali Rahbar arrived New Cross 2009-11-04
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!
sweets transit: Haj Khalifeh Ali Rahbar to New Cross
           
freight and handling sweets to General Public Agency 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