Send Flowers to Navajo County, AZ

The question a sender in another state actually has is what time the order has to be in, and the answer is 1 PM Arizona time, measured where the flowers are going. Navajo County runs roughly two hundred miles from top to bottom, so the second question matters almost as much: which of the thirty-two towns the address belongs to. A code and a house number without a town name leaves out the part that decides who takes the order.

Thirty-Two Towns, North and South

The seat is Holbrook, AZ in 86032, roughly in the middle. South of it the pine country holds Show Low in 85901, Pinetop-Lakeside in 85929, Snowflake and Taylor in 85937, with Linden, Pinedale, Lake of the Woods and White Mountain Lake between them. North of the seat the ground opens out: Winslow uses 86047, Kayenta 86033, and First Mesa, Second Mesa and Kykotsmovi Village take 86039, 86043 and 86030.

109,516 people live across 9,949 square miles of that, which is a thin spread by any measure. Each of the thirty-two towns carries its own page under this one, listing the codes that belong to it, and once the address is settled that page is the shorter route. This page is for the step before it, when all you have is a street and a rough idea of where it sits.

Before 1 PM, Arizona Time

Arizona does not move its clocks with the seasons, so the gap between a distant sender and a recipient in Navajo County changes twice a year instead of holding still. In winter the state runs two hours behind Eastern time and in summer three. If you are unsure which clock the recipient actually keeps, ask them; it is the one detail on this page a sender cannot look up. Deliveries run Monday through Saturday and Sunday delivery is not available.

Arrivals fall between 9 AM and 7 PM. A specific hour can be requested and cannot be promised, because a route that covers both ends of a county this long is planned by the day. Ahead of Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas and Easter the same-day point can be earlier than usual, and on those four dates two days of notice is worth more than any other precaution.

Choose for a Long Road

Low and dense beats tall and dramatic when the last leg is an hour of highway. A vase arrangement holds its own shape and needs nothing doing to it at the other end; a wrapped bunch of long stems assumes somebody with a vase and ten spare minutes. The arrangements are grouped by occasion if you would rather work back from the reason than from the shape, which is usually the faster route through a long list.

Altitude is the other thing to weigh. The southern towns sit high enough to have real winters, and an arrangement that suits a July afternoon in the north is not the same one that suits a January morning at 7,000 feet. A florist working in Navajo County knows which is which, and a note saying where it is going helps more than a note about the flowers.

Hospital Rooms and Rural Addresses

Summit Healthcare Regional Medical Center in Show Low and Little Colorado Medical Center in Winslow are the two hospital addresses that come up most, and both want a ward and a room rather than a street alone. Haven of Show Low and Winslow Campus of Care take arrangements for residents, where something low and steady is easier on a small room. Kayenta Alternative Rural Hospital is the third, and an order going there is worth placing early in the day rather than late.

For a private address, copy what the recipient writes without correcting it. Plenty of streets out here have no number in the usual sense, and a landmark in the delivery notes does more good than a tidied street line. A phone contact for the recipient is the simplest way to avoid a second attempt, and a second attempt in Navajo County means another day.

Sympathy Flowers and the Saturday Limit

A standing piece is addressed to wherever the service is being held and has to be in place before the family arrives. Since there is no Sunday run, a Sunday service has to be covered on the Saturday, and that single fact is behind most late sympathy orders. Something for the family's own house can go on any working day and is often better once the visitors have gone. Anything wrong should be raised inside three days of the delivery, and the outcomes are a replacement, a refund or a partial credit.

Card messages are worth a moment's thought. Write the sender's full name rather than a first name, because a recipient who has not seen you in a year should not have to work it out, and keep anything private in a sealed note instead of on the card. In a small town the arrangement is likely to be seen by more people than the one it was sent to.

Substitutions at Altitude

Flower types may be substituted for what a florist has available, with no change to the size, the shape or the value of the arrangement. The point of writing it down is that a substitution costs you nothing and is not a downgrade. A photo of the finished arrangement is sent once it is built, at no extra charge. For an address outside the county, flower delivery across Arizona covers the state, with Apache County, AZ and Coconino County, AZ on either side.

Very little of this is shipped. A florist working in or near the recipient's town builds the arrangement by hand and somebody carries it to the door, which is the whole reason a same-day order into Navajo County is possible and the reason the address has to be a place a person can be reached. It is also why the photo exists at all.