How could I order flowers for someone in Poland, as a Canadian?
How could I order flowers for someone in Poland, as a Canadian?
I have important people in Poland but I can't speak polish and I'm not in the EU.
In the past I've failed at calling local flower shops then bank transferring the money. Things are lost in translation and it's been awkward 2 out of 2 times now.
There must be some middleman I can use. I could ask the recipient in question but I want it to be a surprise obviously.
Any ideas?
Find a shop online in their area that delivers flowers and order them. Google translate is good enough to copy paste for reading descriptions and placing orders if there isn't an option to change the website to your language.
The most important thing is probably making sure they accept your credit/debt card processor. MasterCard, etc.
I wouldn't even bother trying to call anyone. Online is much easier these days.
Well my polish people live in a village where they quite literally are not using an email address, at least not wanting to communicate this way
It doesn't matter, flowers are delivered by a delivery driver even if it's to a remote village as long as you have the address.
Maybe try the largest city close by, one of the florists there might have a website where you can order online
Ok well, if none of the buisnesses in that area are online, I don't know. That's curious.
What's the village?
What I did was to find a online shop who does send flowers in that country (I had to send to Ukraine from Korea) and then pay with a credit card.
Many of those websites have a english version like:
Fleurop delivers in all of Europe afaik
Interflora never lets me down for this kind of things. Not the cheapest though.
fleurop.com is a aervice that does that international
For completeness, the 'other' company, euroflorist.com offers the same service.
I'm surprised I haven't seen any one recommend interflora yet.
I remember seeing ads for this service in Poland: https://www.pocztakwiatowa.pl/en. I never used it though
It's also Interflora, but the Polish branch.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=warsaw+poland+flower+shop finds some good urls. Leaving out "poland" found Warsaw, Indiana, US ;/.
I'm not familiar with Poland, but are you able to use uber-eats or a grocery delivery website to send it?
Some financial institutions such as a credit card company, bank or hotel offer concierge services that may be able to coordinate this delivery for you for at a price. Occasionally, these services are called "white glove service" when you're speaking with customer service.
I'm not familiar with Poland, but are you able to use uber-eats or a grocery delivery website to send it?
Yes they can - through Glovo
Glovo is like Uber eats and is very popular all over Poland.
Man, seeing the title, I thought this was going to turn into an old timey racist joke. You know the kind:
So a Canadian and a Polish walk into a florist shop.....
I don't know what the punchline was going to be, but I figured it was either going to be the kind of funny where you feel bad for laughing, or a disasterous hateful post. Either way, I thought it was going to be like a car crash. You can't NOT look, ya know?
The title is normal, you are a weirdo and you could've just kept that to yourself.