What do you do in lieu of delivery services (flowers, etc.)

[baby-makes-3]

Any suggestions for sending flowers, (or edible arrangements, etc) for a friend in hospital in another town? Or sick, etc.? Flower delivery services are ridiculously expensive, but when you want something sent within a day or so, what do you do?

[Chloe&Coop'sMom]

You can call the hospital gift shop and they can put something together and have it taken to the room. Still pricey though.

I've only sent flowers once, but when I did, I was able to find an online code for proflowers.com and the price ended up being really reasonable... like 20-25$

[angelcollector1]

I agree, you can call the hospital's gift shop and ask them what they have and the prices - they can charge your credit/debit card and deliver it up to the patient. I would have never thought of this until my grandson was in the hospital 1500 miles away and I wanted to send him some toys to play with while he was there since his mom couldn't leave to go get him anything and he was there for about 3 days. Worked out well.

[zebra15]

I can ususally find flowers for about $30.00 online. I rarely need to send them (was looking on line this weekend w. a friend who needed to send funeral flowers)