diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery/cmd/mesh-delivery/fakes_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery/cmd/mesh-delivery/fakes_test.go
index c110d819..b140619a 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery/cmd/mesh-delivery/fakes_test.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery/cmd/mesh-delivery/fakes_test.go
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ type memStore struct {
 	deliveries map[string][]byte
 	groups     map[string][]byte
 	failing    bool
+	// puts counts the deliveries written, failed or not.
+	puts int
 }
 
 func newMemStore() *memStore {
@@ -28,6 +30,7 @@ func newMemStore() *memStore {
 func (s *memStore) PutDelivery(d *Delivery) error {
 	s.mu.Lock()
 	defer s.mu.Unlock()
+	s.puts++
 	if s.failing {
 		return errors.New("the bus is away")
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery/cmd/mesh-delivery/holder.go b/modules/mesh-delivery/cmd/mesh-delivery/holder.go
index ce098104..efd79a18 100644
--- a/modules/mesh-delivery/cmd/mesh-delivery/holder.go
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery/cmd/mesh-delivery/holder.go
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"slices"
@@ -30,6 +32,9 @@ type Holder struct {
 	deliveries map[string]*Delivery
 	groups     map[string]*Group
 	dirty      map[string]bool
+	// written is each delivery as it was last written, encoded: a delivery that encodes the same is not
+	// written again (novox/hq issue 326).
+	written    map[string][]byte
 	dirtyGroup map[string]bool
 	unmatched  map[string]unmatched
 	backlog    []Walk
@@ -88,6 +93,7 @@ func (h *Holder) init() {
 	h.deliveries = map[string]*Delivery{}
 	h.groups = map[string]*Group{}
 	h.dirty = map[string]bool{}
+	h.written = map[string][]byte{}
 	h.dirtyGroup = map[string]bool{}
 	h.unmatched = map[string]unmatched{}
 	h.askTried = map[string]time.Time{}
@@ -114,6 +120,9 @@ func (h *Holder) Load() error {
 	defer h.mu.Unlock()
 	for _, d := range ds {
 		h.deliveries[d.ID] = d
+		if b, err := json.Marshal(d); err == nil {
+			h.written[d.ID] = b
+		}
 	}
 	for _, g := range gs {
 		h.groups[g.ID] = g
@@ -187,15 +196,27 @@ func orNothing(s State) string {
 }
 
 // keep writes a delivery; one that could not be written is written again by Flush before anything about it
-// is said.
+// is said. A delivery that encodes exactly as it was last written is not written again: a revision of its key
+// means the delivery changed (novox/hq issue 326). Any change to anything it holds — its state, steps, walk,
+// owed effects and their tries — changes its encoding, so it is written.
 func (h *Holder) keep(d *Delivery) {
 	h.deliveries[d.ID] = d
+	b, encoded := json.Marshal(d)
+	if encoded == nil && !h.dirty[d.ID] && h.written[d.ID] != nil && bytes.Equal(b, h.written[d.ID]) {
+		return
+	}
 	if err := h.Store.PutDelivery(d); err != nil {
 		h.dirty[d.ID] = true
+		delete(h.written, d.ID)
 		h.Logf("[mesh-delivery] %s could not be kept yet (%v); kept again before it is said", d.ID, err)
 		return
 	}
 	delete(h.dirty, d.ID)
+	if encoded == nil {
+		h.written[d.ID] = b
+	} else {
+		delete(h.written, d.ID)
+	}
 }
 
 func (h *Holder) keepGroup(g *Group) {
@@ -971,6 +992,7 @@ func (h *Holder) plan() []func() {
 		if d.State.Final() && len(d.Owed) == 0 && now.Sub(d.Since) > keptFinal {
 			if err := h.Store.DeleteDelivery(id); err == nil {
 				delete(h.deliveries, id)
+				delete(h.written, id)
 			}
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/modules/mesh-delivery/cmd/mesh-delivery/issue326_test.go b/modules/mesh-delivery/cmd/mesh-delivery/issue326_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2588dd6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/modules/mesh-delivery/cmd/mesh-delivery/issue326_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// novox/hq issue 326: a delivery whose state did not change is not written again — a reconcile pass over
+// walks that did not move writes nothing — and one that changed is written, and said.
+func TestADeliveryIsWrittenOnlyWhenItChanged(t *testing.T) {
+	w := newWorld(t)
+	id := IDOf("novox/app", head)
+	w.h.PullUpdated(pr("novox/app", 7, head, "feat/x", "src/a.go"))
+	w.h.Checked(verdict("novox/app", 7, head, "pass"))
+	w.ctl.put(aWalk("plan-1", "novox/app", merge, true))
+	w.h.PullMerged(merged("novox/app", 7, head, merge))
+	w.settleAll()
+	if err := w.h.Reconcile(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	w.settleAll()
+	// The word given moves the walk's record once more: read back, it is a change, and written.
+	if err := w.h.Reconcile(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	w.settleAll()
+	if w.state(id) != Delivering {
+		t.Fatalf("let go, it is %s", w.state(id))
+	}
+
+	// Passes over the same walks, as main.go's tickers run them: nothing changed, nothing written.
+	before, said := w.store.puts, len(w.said)
+	for range 5 {
+		w.later(30 * time.Second)
+		if err := w.h.Reconcile(); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		w.settleAll()
+	}
+	if w.store.puts != before {
+		t.Fatalf("five passes over walks that did not move wrote %d delivery(ies)", w.store.puts-before)
+	}
+	if len(w.said) != said {
+		t.Fatalf("five passes over walks that did not move said %d event(s)", len(w.said)-said)
+	}
+
+	// The walk moves: the delivery changes, is written, and is said.
+	walk := w.ctl.walk("plan-1")
+	walk.State = walkDone
+	w.ctl.put(walk)
+	if err := w.h.Reconcile(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	w.settleAll()
+	if w.state(id) != Delivered {
+		t.Fatalf("a walk done left it %s", w.state(id))
+	}
+	if w.store.puts == before {
+		t.Fatal("a delivery that changed was not written")
+	}
+	back, err := w.store.Deliveries()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, d := range back {
+		if d.ID == id && d.State != Delivered {
+			t.Fatalf("the store holds it %s, the holder %s", d.State, Delivered)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(w.said) == said {
+		t.Fatal("a delivery that changed was not said")
+	}
+}
+
+// A delivery that could not be written is written again, even though it did not change since.
+func TestADeliveryNotWrittenIsWrittenAgainUnchanged(t *testing.T) {
+	w := newWorld(t)
+	id := IDOf("novox/app", head)
+	w.store.failing = true
+	w.h.PullUpdated(pr("novox/app", 7, head, "feat/x", "src/a.go"))
+	if _, there := w.store.deliveries[id]; there {
+		t.Fatal("a failing store kept it")
+	}
+	w.store.failing = false
+	w.h.Flush()
+	if _, there := w.store.deliveries[id]; !there {
+		t.Fatal("a delivery that could not be written was not written again")
+	}
+}