Delivery before Christmas?

December 20, 2023 3:03 PM

An older relative has suddenly found herself with no place to go on Christmas, due to the illness of the person who was going to host her. Unfortunately, we shipped her Christmas gift to the host's house several days ago.

She will be going to Christmas dinner at a friend's house, so she won't be totally alone for the holiday, but all her presents are at her son's home several states away, and that whole family is very ill with the flu so they likely won't be mailing them to her any time soon. I'd like to get a couple of things shipped to her house so she has something to open for Christmas (this sort of thing tends to be important to her.) However, I can't seem to find anything on Amazon that will deliver any sooner than December 28 to where she is: Evans GA (near Augusta, so not out in the boonies or anything.)

Any ideas of secret ways to find "delivers before Christmas" items on Amazon? (Putting that in the Amazon search bar did nothing, just brought up a bunch of stuff delivering Dec 28.) Or anyplace else you know of that can deliver in time?

I'm looking for older lady gifts such as a nice fragranced bath set, shawl/wrap, gift basket of chocolate, etc. Other suggestions welcome if it is for something you know that can be delivered in time.

posted by Serene Empress Dork to Shopping (9 answers total)

For food, call Zingermans. They are still delivering in time for Christmas. Also, their customer service is amazing (I know someone who worked for them and her stories were nothing short of shocking), and if you explain the situation they will do everything in their power to make it happen.
posted by FencingGal at 3:06 PM on December 20, 2023 [8 favorites]

I did a Google search for "Evans Georgia gift shops" and got this one (Cudos2u) that apparently does local delivery. Looks like they have the kind of candles, jewelry, and home decor items that might be right up her alley, and your chances of it getting to her before Xmas are probably better there than with a big national store.
posted by rpfields at 3:09 PM on December 20, 2023 [4 favorites]

Do an Etsy search limited to Evans, Georgia, then you can contact the individual sellers and see if one will deliver for a fee, or ship it extra fast. Here's a "knit" search limited to Evans, Georgia.
posted by amtho at 4:08 PM on December 20, 2023 [3 favorites]

I placed an order with nuts.com yesterday and it was processed in one day. They have gift baskets and chocolates.

Maybe try a florist local to where she will be, flower delivery?
posted by Glinn at 4:54 PM on December 20, 2023 [2 favorites]

This thread mentioned LLBean pajamas.
posted by jabes at 6:10 PM on December 20, 2023 [1 favorite]

LLBean will deliver anything that's instock by Christmas so long as you order before midnight Eastern tonight
posted by anastasiav at 7:21 PM on December 20, 2023 [1 favorite]

Maybe this isn't true on the US Amazon but delivers by tomorrow is definitely one of the filters available on the Australian site.
posted by jojobobo at 12:32 AM on December 21, 2023 [1 favorite]

Do you do instacart? You can send a gift order from any of the stores they offer - including target-- and a bunch of others, but target seems like the most useful. They wouldn't be wrapped, so there'd have to be some compromise there, but you might be able to order some gift bags and ask the shopper to put your purchases in them.
posted by lemniskate at 10:40 AM on December 21, 2023 [2 favorites]

I second Instacart. If that doesn't work for whatever reason, consider placing a Walmart or Target curbside pickup order she can grab herself?
posted by metasarah at 6:19 PM on December 22, 2023