Boston Baskets · the United Kingdom → Massachusetts
Send Gift Baskets to Massachusetts from the United Kingdom
Sending a gift from the United Kingdom to Massachusetts does not have to mean a parcel and a wait. The basket is made here and delivered here, on a day you choose while you order, so the only distance involved is the one between our doors and theirs.
Ordering from the UK, delivering in Massachusetts
Checkout asks for two different things and it helps to keep them apart: where the gift is going, which is always a Massachusetts address, and where your card is registered, which is your own address in the United Kingdom.
Your side of the order
- Your billing address Enter it as your bank in the United Kingdom holds it — street address, town and postcode. The checkout form accepts the postcode in its usual shape.
- Your telephone number Give the number you actually answer, with your country code. It is used if something about the order needs a quick word, not for marketing.
- Your email Order confirmation and any delivery update go here, so it can be an address you read at your own hours rather than one you check occasionally.
The recipient's side
- The delivery address A street address in Massachusetts, with its ZIP code. This is the address the route and the available dates are worked out from.
- The delivery date Chosen on the product page before the basket goes into the cart. The dates offered are the ones open to that address; the window is confirmed at checkout.
- Their phone number A local number helps if the driver cannot get an answer at the door. It is used for the delivery, nothing else.
Check the address before you order
Enter the ZIP code of the address the basket is going to. The answer covers the area only — the dates themselves are shown on the product page.
This checks the area, not the day. Dates are offered on the product page, deliveries are planned rather than same-day: no basket leaves on the day it is ordered, and delivery is free from $100.
The delivery, in seven lines
Paying from the UK, in US dollars
Your message, and how it is printed
There is a message box at checkout and whatever you put in it is printed and attached to the basket. Printing is in Latin characters, as used in English.
A few lines work best — the card is a card, not a page.
The baskets that travel best from overseas
The order is senders outside the United States' own, taken from every overseas order since January 2023. Nothing here is promoted; the rank is the rank. Orders from the United Kingdom since January 2023 sit at a median of $116 before delivery — a midpoint rather than an average. The one seasonal spike on this route since January 2023 is December, at roughly 4.2 times a normal month. Book the date sooner rather than later.
The Massachusetts towns the UK sends to
Shares of every order sent from the United Kingdom since January 2023, by the town it was delivered to. Each has a page of its own with that town's delivery detail.
If none of those is right
Tracking, questions and changes
Delivery pages by town
Each of these has its own page, with the delivery detail for that town and the gifts sent there most.
- Boston
- Cambridge
- Wakefield
- Newton
- Natick
- Somerville
- Brookline
- Medford
- Massachusetts
Questions that come up on this route
How soon can a basket arrive if I order from the United Kingdom?
As soon as the earliest date offered on the product page, which is the same date offered to anyone ordering for that address. Where you are has no effect on it — the dates depend on the delivery address, not the billing one. Choose the date before you add the basket to the cart.
Am I charged extra for ordering from abroad?
Not by us. Delivery is free on orders of $100 and over and priced at checkout below that, the same for every order. Your own bank may add a foreign-transaction fee, which is its charge, not ours.
Will a card registered in the United Kingdom work?
The billing fields take an address in the British format — street address, town and postcode — so your card can be entered as your bank holds it. The delivery address stays the Massachusetts one; the two are separate and neither has to match the other.
Can it be held up at customs?
It cannot — there is no customs step. The gift is made and delivered on the same side, so the only thing between the order and the door is the delivery itself.
Is the message translated?
No. It is printed exactly as you enter it — nothing is corrected, re-worded or translated. The card prints in Latin characters, as used in English.
Can I send a basket with wine or spirits in it?
Yes, and it is handed only to someone 21+ who can show photo ID. If nobody at the address can, the basket cannot be left — so it is worth telling the recipient it is coming.