Cell Phones in Great Britain - Send flowers via SMS contact

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Send flowers via SMS contact

Allan Gould

2008-02-20, 4:33 am

A long shot, I know.
I want to send flowers to someone (in the UK) who travels a lot, and
whose only reliable source of being contacted/pinned down is a mobile
number. I want to be able to find a flower delivery service (e.g.
Interflora) who will then send an SMS to the lucky recipient saying
"you've been sent flowers, text/contact us and let us know when and
where you want the flowers delivered".
Does anyone know of a service that does this?
TIA

ChrisM

2008-02-20, 7:33 am

In message 622agnF220s8cU1@mid.individual.net,
Allan Gould <invalid@invalid.invalid> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

> A long shot, I know.
> I want to send flowers to someone (in the UK) who travels a lot, and
> whose only reliable source of being contacted/pinned down is a mobile
> number. I want to be able to find a flower delivery service (e.g.
> Interflora) who will then send an SMS to the lucky recipient saying
> "you've been sent flowers, text/contact us and let us know when and
> where you want the flowers delivered".
> Does anyone know of a service that does this?
> TIA

Do they travel from one one of the country to the other, or within a
specific area?
Problem is that due to the delicate and relatively short-lived nature of
flowers, most nation companies have them prepared by he nearest shop to the
recipient, then dispatch from there. I'm not aware of any companies that can
ship nationally from a central 'depot' (though that's not to say they don't
exist!). Can you not do some subtle enquiries or a bit of 'detective' work
and try to establish where they are going to be over the next few days. (to
the nearest town would probably be good enough, at least then, the flower
company would then know which shop to send the order to, whether they would
accept an order without a specific delivery address, I don't know, but I
guess as long as they get paid...)

Good Luck!

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Regards,
Chris.
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Mark Hewitt

2008-02-22, 4:33 am

"ChrisM" < chris_mayersblue@sue
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> Do they travel from one one of the country to the other, or within a
> specific area?
> Problem is that due to the delicate and relatively short-lived nature of
> flowers, most nation companies have them prepared by he nearest shop to
> the recipient, then dispatch from there. I'm not aware of any companies
> that can ship nationally from a central 'depot' (though that's not to say
> they don't exist!). Can you not do some subtle enquiries or a bit of
> 'detective' work and try to establish where they are going to be over the
> next few days. (to the nearest town would probably be good enough, at
> least then, the flower company would then know which shop to send the
> order to, whether they would accept an order without a specific delivery
> address, I don't know, but I guess as long as they get paid...)
>

I don't think that's what the OP was asking. I think it's more like the
buyer gets a code from interflora and then sends that code to the recipient
who can then call into a flower shop or ring up the flower shop with the
code in order to take delivery.

A gift certificate or similar may do the trick.

ChrisM

2008-02-22, 4:33 am

In message 1203671056.722824@nntpgw.ncl.ac.uk,
Mark Hewitt <nomail@here.com> Proclaimed from the tallest tower:

> "ChrisM" < chris_mayersblue@sue
deyahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:iuadnQdtqLxguyH
anZ2dnUVZ8rOdnZ2d@bt
.com...
>
> I don't think that's what the OP was asking. I think it's more like
> the buyer gets a code from interflora and then sends that code to the
> recipient who can then call into a flower shop or ring up the flower
> shop with the code in order to take delivery.
>
> A gift certificate or similar may do the trick.

In my experience, flower delivery companies tend to use 'push technology',
and need an address to send the flowers to, rather than someone calling(or
texting) a shop with a code to say someone's bought me some flowers, can you
make them up for me...
As I said previously though, someone else might know better.

Gift Certificate might do the job, but sending someone one of those with a
note to 'go and buy yourself some flowers' is somewhat lacking in romance I
feel...

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Regards,
Chris.
(Remove Elvis's shoes to email me)

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