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Hello There,

I have started selling bouquets online but when it comes to sending them in the post it is working out to expensive. I sent a £20.00 hand tied aqua pack with only a little water in the bottom it was £8.00 first class with royal mail.

Does anyone know what I can place on the stem ends to keep the weight down but the flowers can still drink?

Also any ideas where I can find delivery boxes for hand tieds?

Any help & advice would be great, thank you so much!!!

have u got your own shop?
or doing it from home?

I work from home x

Beats me why anyone would want a posted bouquet

I am with you have you ever see the youtube 1800 proflower video >>?? you have to watch it!!

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I think most of the companies that send out flowers in boxes us couriers. Flowers Direct use City Link.

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Rainbow

Quote of the day : To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott

We use couriers too although mostly for deliveries within our region outside of our delivery area...any further afield and probably not a great method...you can't guarantee condition of flowers when they arrive...take a look at the 'campaign for real floristry' site and you will see what I mean and why many of us dislike the idea...

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FAUN TO BE WILD...!!!

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KK

Furlan, you will have to be very careful if you are sending bouquets out by post. Like Apple said most people don't want their flowers delivered that way. You need to make it clear to your customers that they will be posted out the recipient otherwise you could lose a customer. It happened to me when my relay company sent out a bouquet whilst I was on holiday, by courier for one of my customers. Just about everything went wrong. Although the relay company sent out a replacement bouquet to the recipient (with a florist this time) I still lost a customer.

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Rainbow

Quote of the day : To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Amos Bronson Alcott