Thought this might have been a social call but straight to business it is.

Erie is still under occupation. I've deployed volunteers to make contact with the militia and provide material support where possible.

Besides this, the business is chugging along slowly, almost torturously. Competition between the old network and ours is frequent and always violent. But our network is no longer dwarfed by contrast to what Rochester can offer. The shortages have levelled the playing field which helps make our lower costs for product more persuasive since the Rochester network has to account for an entire extra middleman.

Things are uncertain.