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#26 La Misa

Phenomenology of a delivery


Dispo Stories from La Misa #26

Y., a very nice but somewhat confused customer, wants to send a package from Munich to Stuttgart. She therefore rightly contacts a bicycle courier service operating in Berlin. No problem, from the office we contact R., another municipal courier service, which in turn works with S., a Europe-wide express service, who confirms the transport. A few minutes later the phone rings, it is Y. - she forgot to indicate that the package cannot be picked up until 5 p.m. No problem, I call R., who calls S. back and everything is fine again.


It's 2pm and this time it's an email from Y. that upsets the cosmic balance. The package is in a bar in Munich, but no one will be there until 5.30pm. It's difficult to organize the pickup at such short notice, but I'll try, I tell Y. Then R. calls S. R. calls back, no luck. I write to Y. - no answer. I call Y. who, a new element of surprise, is just boarding a flight and will therefore soon be off the radar. She tells me to contact B. "Who is B.?" "The bar manager in Munich." "Ah!" "I'll email you the number."


I call B., who can't possibly be in the bar at 5 p.m. No, no one else has the keys. "Give the courier my number." "But that doesn't change the fact that he could be there at 5:10 p.m.," I reply. "You just give him my number." Then I call R. so that he can give B.'s number to S. Now we just have to wait and cross our fingers.


And here I think about how strange it is how much attention a handful of people can give to a single package that most of them will never see, never touch and, above all, whose contents they will ignore forever. The thought is short-lived. It is 6 p.m. and the end of the day. B.'s calls at around 7 p.m. go unanswered and will only worry those of us who are the first to check the news in the morning. But shortly after the day has begun and the initial headache has passed, the notification arrives: the package was delivered at 9:25 a.m.


The Berlin bike courier "La Misa #26" is part of the worker-led bicycle collective Crow, which has set itself the goal of replacing cars with bicycles. Through cargo bike transport and bicycle repairs, for a better quality of life for everyone and without bosses.




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