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– Where are you sending?

– To Hong Kong.

– Why is there no index?

– No index.

– How so?

Her colleague from the next window on the left, a woman of about forty, probably having heard our dialogue, asked her:

– International?

– Yes.

– Then it is possible without an index.

– And how to send it, by air or by ground?

– As he wishes.

The girl clicked on the keyboard:

– No Hong Kong!

– How not?!

– Wait a minute, I’ll find out.

The girl went to the window on the right behind which a girl of about twenty was also sitting:

– Take a look at Hong Kong.

– Wait a minute…

– You don’t have it either!

The girls asked me in bewilderment:

– And what is Hong Kong?

– Hong Kong is a former British colony, in 1996 it went to China.

– Wait a minute… No, not in China either… I’ll ask the boss.

The boss, a woman of about fifty, casting a glance at my parcel, pointed her finger at the monitor:

– This is Hong Kong.

Then she took a pen and wrote “Hong Kong” on the parcel post, crossing out the words “Kong Kong” I had written in a hurry.