Send Flowers Across Jones County, MS

The Three Towns and the Ground Between Them

Jones County covers 695 square miles of south Mississippi, and the 65,837 people who live here sit in a few tight clusters rather than spread evenly over the map. Orders run north to Laurel, MS, down the highway to the seat at Ellisville, MS, and out to Sharon, MS on the quieter side of that same stretch of pine country.

Five postal codes carry the whole of it. Laurel holds 39440 and 39441, with 39443 and 39442 running beside them, while 39437 belongs to the seat at the southern end. A code written on the order form does more good here than a town name, because the place somebody gives as a mailing town and the place they actually sleep are not always the same thing in the country.

An address a short way past the line is a different page rather than a different service. Forrest County, MS sits to the south west, Perry County, MS lies to the south east, Smith County, MS is north west of here and Wayne County, MS east. Jones sits in the middle of that group, and the full list is on the Mississippi county pages.

The 1 PM Cutoff Read From Another State

Orders placed before 1 PM Central time reach the recipient the same business day, and the figure to watch is the clock in Ellisville rather than the one on the sender desk. Somebody ordering from the west coast is two hours behind that deadline, so the practical limit is late morning where she is sitting. Nothing about the 695 square miles moves the hour either way.

Delivery in Jones County runs Monday through Saturday, and Sunday delivery is not available, so a service or a party landing on a Sunday has to be covered by a Saturday arrival instead. Deliveries land between 9 AM and 7 PM, and a particular hour inside that stretch can be asked for, though it cannot be promised to anyone.

Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Christmas and Easter each pull the same day deadline in front of 1 PM, and in those four weeks a Laurel order placed the day before is worth more than a fast one placed on the morning itself. A weekday order also has more room in it than a Saturday one, because Saturday is the last chance before the schedule stops for a day.

A Substituted Stem, the Same Size Ordered

Flower types may be substituted for what the florist has on hand, with no change to the size, shape or value of the arrangement. A design ordered with lisianthus can turn up carrying another white bloom of similar weight, because the person building it works from the buckets standing in front of them. The container, the scale and the amount paid all stay exactly where they were put.

Once the piece is finished a photo of the arrangement is sent at no extra charge, which is the part senders 800 miles away tend not to expect. It is also the quickest way to catch a problem while there is still time to act, since flowers are perishable and anything wrong has to be raised inside three days. Raise it from a Laurel or a Sharon address in that window and the answer is a replacement, a refund, or a credit against part of what was paid.

Sympathy Flowers and the Named Places in Laurel

A standing spray has to arrive where the service actually is, and here that can be a church in one town and a graveside twenty minutes further out, so the hour and the place both come from the family rather than from a guess. Put the name of the person who died on the card, not only the surname, since a household taking in six deliveries has no other way to keep them apart.

Long term care addresses are steadier. Care Center of Laurel, Comfort Care Nursing Center and Laurelwood Community Living Center all stand in Laurel, and each of them wants a full name and a room or a wing written on the card, because a front desk cannot find somebody on a first name. Jones Co Rest Home works the same way at the Ellisville end of the county.

Addresses That Need a Room Number

A workplace order in Laurel is easier to land in the earlier half of the window, because a reception desk that shuts at five will not take anything at six. A home address in the thin country between Ellisville and Sharon is the opposite case, and somebody is more likely to be standing there in the evening than at midday on a Tuesday.

A cell number for the recipient on the order form does more good than any other note, and a gate code or a unit letter does the rest. Where nobody answers in Jones County the arrangement does not vanish, but a second attempt costs a day, and a day matters when the stems were bought for a Saturday that has already gone.

Birthdays, Thank Yous and New Arrivals

A birthday is the easiest date to work with, because it is fixed months ahead and a Saturday arrival covers a Sunday birthday without any argument at all. New baby orders are less predictable and usually better sent to the home once mother and child are back there, rather than to a floor that may discharge them before the flowers get through the door.

Thank you flowers after a favor done or a long visit are usually sent inside the week, and a modest arrangement reads better than a large one in a small kitchen. Sizes are the thing to get right from several states away, and the arrangement and plant catalog shows what each design looks like before it is ordered for a table in Ellisville.

Anniversaries mostly go to a home in the evening, and that is the one case where the late end of the delivery window helps rather than hurts. Jones County flower delivery runs on the same six day schedule as the rest of Mississippi, so a sender who has learned the rule once has learned it for every town on this page.