829 Will They Accept It?

Reiko assigned her team of secretaries and assistants to making thousands of contacts, including a mass message to every phone in the city's important persons' directory. That would inevitably anger a number of people who weren't on the list, but it was better than just not sending it at all, and it went more smoothly than the messages to the courier companies.

Unlike the Families, they needed details. How large, how heavy, were they sure that the numbers that the Council was giving them were correct, could that be made an exclusive contract? The basics of dealing with any massive movement of goods.

But once they began to realize the scale of the operation, that every person in the entire city, young or old, needed at least one card, while businesses would need extra, the couriers realized just how insane and impossible the task was.