Sending flowers to another country
Flowers are the only present that crosses a border and arrives on the exact day you meant. No parcel, no customs form, no tracking number that stops moving in a warehouse for nine days — just an address and a date.
AT A GLANCE
- Delivers to
- The USA, the UK, Germany, Switzerland and Italy
- Pay from
- Anywhere — the payer does not have to be in the delivery country
- Price
- $100 / £100 / €100 / CHF 100 — the delivery country's own currency
- Holidays
- The recipient's calendar decides the date, not yours
- Not possible
- PO boxes, Postfächer, Packstationen, caselle postali
Five countries, one bouquet each
Preznt delivers to any street address in the USA, the United Kingdom, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. There is one signature bouquet per country, at a flat price in that country's own currency: $100, £100, €100 and CHF 100. No conversion, no delivery surcharge, no "international" premium.
The bouquet and the address have to belong to the same country — the German bouquet goes to a German address. You, on the other hand, can be anywhere: the person paying does not have to be in the delivery country, or in any of the five. Boston to Bologna, Sydney to Zurich, Cape Town to Glasgow all work the same way.
Getting the address right
Each country validates the bit of the address that is most often wrong:
- USA — a two-letter state and a zip code that really is in that state. A New York zip on a New Jersey address is rejected, and the error says which state the zip belongs to. The 50 states and DC are served; Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands and military APO/FPO addresses are not.
- UK — the full postcode (
SW1A 1AA); spacing and case are tidied up for you. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all served. Jersey, Guernsey, the Isle of Man and BFPO addresses are not — they are not in the UK. - Germany — the five-digit Postleitzahl. The Bundesland is optional.
- Switzerland — the four-digit PLZ/NPA. Liechtenstein, Campione d'Italia and Büsingen am Hochrhein use Swiss postcodes but are not in Switzerland, and are not served.
- Italy — the five-digit CAP. San Marino and Vatican City use Italian CAPs and are separate countries, so they are not served either.
And everywhere: no PO boxes. A Postfach, a Packstation and a casella postale are the same answer — flowers need a door and a person behind it. Include the flat number, floor or buzzer name; a courier in a city you have never been to cannot guess.
The date is theirs, not yours
Delivery dates are checked against the recipient's calendar, because it is their florist who has to be open. Practically:
- A US federal holiday does not block a UK delivery, and a UK bank holiday does not block a German one.
- The three-business-day minimum is counted in the delivery country too, so a long weekend there pushes the earliest date out — even if it is an ordinary working week where you are.
- Weekdays only, everywhere. No Saturday or Sunday delivery in any of the five countries.
- Up to three months ahead, which covers most birthdays you remember in advance.
One more thing worth thinking about at a distance: the flowers arrive during their working day. If you want to call, work out what that is where they are before you pick the date.
The card, in their language
The message is printed on the florist's card, up to 255 characters, and it goes through as you write it — accents and all. Writing it in the recipient's language is worth the two minutes even if yours is bad; a slightly wrong sentence in Italian is warmer than a perfect one in English.
"Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, Papa. Ich denke oft an dich. — Jan"
"Ti penso ogni giorno. Ci vediamo a Natale, promesso. — Elena"
Why this is the case an agent handles well
Sending across a border is where the fiddly details pile up: which country's holiday calendar applies, whether a zip belongs to the state you typed, whether the postcode is Swiss or Liechtenstein's, what three business days means over Ferragosto. An AI agent connected to Preznt checks all of that against the live rules before anything is charged, and comes back with a date that works.
What it cannot do is spend your money. The payment link goes by email to the human on the order — and never to the agent — so a delivery on the other side of the world still ends with you clicking once.
SEND THEM FROM YOUR AGENT
Preznt is a flower-delivery service your AI agent can use directly, over MCP. Connect it once — no account, no API key:
CLAUDE CODE
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http preznt https://api.preznt.net/mcp Then ask for this one:
I am in Australia and want to send flowers to my father in Germany:
Klaus Berger, Rosenweg 3, 80331 München, Germany.
Pick the German bouquet and deliver on a weekday two weeks from now.
Card: "Alles Gute, Papa. Ich denke an dich. — Jan"
My email is you@example.com. The agent places the order; the payment link comes to you, by email, and nothing is charged and nothing is sent until you open it. Your agent never gets that link — which is the point.
MORE REASONS TO SEND FLOWERS
Preznt sells one thing: a signature bouquet, $100 / £100 / €100 / CHF 100, delivered to any street address in the USA, the UK, Germany, Switzerland or Italy on a weekday at least three business days out. The service is in alpha and best-effort; if an order cannot be fulfilled it is refunded in full. Questions go to hello@preznt.net and reach a person. Terms.