Apolyton Institute Saturday May 12, 3:55pm
Interesting. A number of people told me that they were finding delays but hadn't sorted out a specific pattern, and then I received a message from Chris and Jen Cook that made it all fit together. Someone, for some reason, is delaying parcels that are associated with the Apolyton Institute. And also parcels that look like the kind Apolyton use: large, heavyish parcels sent express or priority and with a signature or delivery confirmation required. Someone's clearly very keen on reading Apolyton's mail. I wonder why.
The Apolyton Institute is one of the more mysterious organisations in the city. There are always rumours flying around about the things they do: when the Cube went missing quite a few people thought it was an Apolyton stunt. There's quite a bit of cross-pollination in staff between Apolyton and the Academy, but the Apolyton ex-staffers are always so firmly NDAed that they'd get sued if they even muttered 'Apolyton' in their sleep. Looks like someone's interested in penetrating that impregnable fortress.
I called up the switchboard at the Apolyton, but they're stonewalling. "No," they said, "we have had no postal problems, no we have not heard of any, no we are not interested in your findings." So, for now, I'm stumped. Stumped but intensely curious.