Delivery notes, waybills and cargo manifests

Somebody sent something to somebody, and a clerk wrote it down. A delivery note is the paper trail a crate leaves behind, which makes it one of the best clues a game master can hand across the table: it names both ends of the journey and says what was in the box.

Every box on the form

The carrier and the number of the note, the date and the order it answers, the sender and the recipient with their addresses, and the place of delivery when that is somewhere else. Then the goods, a line each — how many, what, how heavy, and a remark — the handling marks stamped under them, the instructions for whoever carries it, and at the foot the signature of the person who took it in, the hour and the stamp. A box left empty prints empty, ready to be filled in by hand.

Five skins: a 1920s railway express waybill, an Eastern Bloc state haulage note on a pink carbon copy, a modern courier’s delivery note with its barcode, a fantasy caravan’s bill of carriage under a wax seal, and a freighter’s cargo manifest. A5, or A4 for a larger print, at 300 DPI. What the crate turned out to hold is usually worth an Official Form, and the train it came on is a Ticket.