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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rabber@lemmy.ca to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

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?

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[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 45 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] rabber@lemmy.ca 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 35 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 4 months ago

Maybe try the largest city close by, one of the florists there might have a website where you can order online

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ok well, if none of the buisnesses in that area are online, I don't know. That's curious.

What's the village?

[-] jeena@piefed.jeena.net 23 points 4 months ago

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:

[-] Nomad@infosec.pub 8 points 4 months ago

Fleurop delivers in all of Europe afaik

[-] cmeio@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

fleurop.com is a aervice that does that international

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For completeness, the 'other' company, euroflorist.com offers the same service.

[-] Kelly@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I'm surprised I haven't seen any one recommend interflora yet.

https://www.interflora.co.uk/category/international

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

AfaIk, Fleurop and Interflora are the same company, so depending on your country it's either Fleurop (e.g. Germany, NL) or Interflora (UK, France, Nordics ...).

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 months ago

Interflora never lets me down for this kind of things. Not the cheapest though.

[-] nawordar@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago

I remember seeing ads for this service in Poland: https://www.pocztakwiatowa.pl/en. I never used it though

[-] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 2 points 4 months ago

It's also Interflora, but the Polish branch.

[-] solrize@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=warsaw+poland+flower+shop finds some good urls. Leaving out "poland" found Warsaw, Indiana, US ;/.

[-] Toes@ani.social 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] thefactremains@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

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