diff --git a/src/Hash2Pub/PostService.hs b/src/Hash2Pub/PostService.hs
index 8811080..9be7d1b 100644
--- a/src/Hash2Pub/PostService.hs
+++ b/src/Hash2Pub/PostService.hs
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ data PostService d = PostService
     -- queues, other data structures
     , baseDHT          ::   (DHT d) => d
     , serviceThread    :: TVar ThreadId
-    , subscribers      :: TVar (RingMap NodeID TagSubscribers)
+    , subscribers      :: TVar RelayTags
     -- ^ for each tag store the subscribers + their queue
     , ownSubscriptions :: TVar (HMap.HashMap NodeID POSIXTime)
     -- ^ tags subscribed by the own node have an assigned lease time
@@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ type PostID = Txt.Text
 type PostContent = Txt.Text
 -- | For each handled tag, store its subscribers and provide a
 -- broadcast 'TChan' for enqueuing posts
-type RelayTags = RingMap NodeID (TagSubscribers, TChan PostContent)
+type RelayTags = RingMap NodeID (TagSubscribers, TChan PostID, Hashtag)
 -- | each subscriber is identified by its contact data "hostname" "port"
 -- and holds a TChan duplicated from the broadcast TChan of the tag
-type TagSubscribers = HMap.HashMap (String, Int) (TChan PostContent)
+type TagSubscribers = TVar (HMap.HashMap (String, Int) (TChan PostID))
 
 
 instance DHT d => Service PostService d where
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ exposedPostServiceAPI = Proxy
 
 type PostServiceAPI = "relay" :> "inbox" :> ReqBody '[PlainText] Txt.Text :> PutCreated '[PlainText] NoContent
                  -- ^ delivery endpoint of newly published posts of the relay's instance
-                 :<|> "relay" :> "subscribers" :> ReqBody '[PlainText] Txt.Text :> Post '[PlainText] Txt.Text
+                 :<|> "relay" :> "subscribers" :> ReqBody '[PlainText] Txt.Text :> PostNoContent '[PlainText] NoContent
                  -- ^ endpoint for delivering the subscriptions and outstanding queue
                  :<|> "post" :> Capture "postid" Txt.Text :> Get '[PlainText] Txt.Text
                  -- ^ fetch endpoint for posts, full post ID is http://$domain/post/$postid
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ relayInbox :: PostService d -> Txt.Text -> Handler NoContent
 relayInbox serv post = do
     -- extract contained hashtags
     let
-        containedTags = fmap (Txt.fromStrict . normalize NFC . Txt.toStrict . Txt.tail) . filter ((==) '#' . Txt.head) . Txt.words $ post
+        containedTags = fmap (normaliseTag . Txt.tail) . filter ((==) '#' . Txt.head) . Txt.words $ post
     -- generate post ID
     postId <- liftIO $ Txt.pack . show <$> (randomRIO (0, 2^128-1) :: IO Integer)
     -- add ID to own posts
@@ -158,8 +158,25 @@ relayInbox serv post = do
 
 
 
-subscriptionDelivery :: PostService d -> Txt.Text -> Handler Txt.Text
-subscriptionDelivery serv subList = pure $ "Here be Subscription List dragons: " <> subList
+subscriptionDelivery :: PostService d -> Txt.Text -> Handler NoContent
+subscriptionDelivery serv subList = do
+    let
+        tagSubs = Txt.lines subList
+    liftIO $ forM_ tagSubs $ processTag (subscribers serv)
+    pure NoContent
+    -- TODO: check and only accept tags in own (future?) responsibility
+  where
+      processTag :: TVar RelayTags -> Txt.Text -> IO ()
+      processTag subscriberSTM tagData = do
+          let
+            tag:subText:posts:_ = Txt.splitOn "," tagData
+            sub = read . Txt.unpack $ subText :: (String, Int)
+            postList = Txt.words posts
+          enqueueSubscriptions subscriberSTM (normaliseTag tag) sub postList
+
+
+
+
 
 postFetch :: PostService d -> Txt.Text -> Handler Txt.Text
 postFetch serv postID = pure $ "Here be a post with dragon ID " <> postID
@@ -178,6 +195,49 @@ tagUnsubscribe :: PostService d -> Txt.Text -> Maybe Txt.Text -> Handler Txt.Tex
 tagUnsubscribe serv hashtag origin = pure $ "Here be a dragon unsubscription from " <> fromMaybe "Nothing" origin <> " to " <> hashtag
 
 
+-- ======= data structure manipulations =========
+
+-- | Write all pending posts of a subscriber-tag-combination to its queue.
+-- Sets up all necessary data structures if they are still missing.
+enqueueSubscriptions :: TVar RelayTags    -- tag-subscriber map
+                     -> Hashtag         -- hashtag of pending posts
+                     -> (String, Int)   -- subscriber's connection information
+                     -> [PostID]        -- pending posts
+                     -> IO ()
+enqueueSubscriptions tagMapSTM tag subscriber posts = do
+    -- get the tag output queue and, if necessary, create it
+    subChan <- atomically setupSubscriberChannel
+    forM_ posts (atomically . writeTChan subChan)
+  where
+      setupSubscriberChannel :: STM (TChan PostID)
+      setupSubscriberChannel = do
+          tagMap <- readTVar tagMapSTM
+          case rMapLookup (genKeyID . Txt.unpack $ tag) tagMap of
+            Nothing -> do
+              -- if no collision/ tag doesn't exist yet, just initialize a
+              -- new subscriber map
+              broadcastChan <- newBroadcastTChan
+              tagOutChan <- dupTChan broadcastChan
+              newSubMapSTM <- newTVar $ HMap.singleton subscriber tagOutChan
+              writeTVar tagMapSTM $ addRMapEntry (genKeyID . Txt.unpack $ tag) (newSubMapSTM, broadcastChan, tag) tagMap
+              pure tagOutChan
+            Just (foundSubMapSTM, broadcastChan, _) -> do
+              -- otherwise use the existing subscriber map
+              foundSubMap <- readTVar foundSubMapSTM
+              case HMap.lookup subscriber foundSubMap of
+                Nothing -> do
+                  -- for new subscribers, create new output channel
+                  tagOutChan <- dupTChan broadcastChan
+                  writeTVar foundSubMapSTM $ HMap.insert subscriber tagOutChan foundSubMap
+                  pure tagOutChan
+                -- existing subscriber's channels are just returned
+                Just tagOutChan -> pure tagOutChan
+
+
+-- normalise the unicode representation of a string to NFC
+normaliseTag :: Txt.Text -> Txt.Text
+normaliseTag = Txt.fromStrict . normalize NFC . Txt.toStrict
+
 -- | define how to convert all showable types to PlainText
 -- No idea what I'm doing with these overlappable instances though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 -- TODO: figure out how this overlapping stuff actually works https://downloads.haskell.org/~ghc/latest/docs/html/users_guide/glasgow_exts.html#instance-overlap