We've been doing same-day since before anyone else in this country would. Pop in a postcode and we'll tell you exactly when it can land - not a rough guess, the actual time you've got left today.
A postcode or a suburb name - either works.
Green means same day. Blue means next day. Tasmania gets everything except the flowers, and the Northern Territory is the one place we haven't cracked yet.
The checker above is the definitive answer for any specific address.
All times are local to wherever it's landing. Our drivers are out from 11am to 9pm, every single day of the year.
Home addresses only - no schools or businesses in these three.
Yes, they're different. Regional runs leave earlier because the drive is longer, and we'd rather tell you 2pm and mean it than tell you 4pm and let you down. A handful of outer suburbs in each city run to an earlier cut-off again - pop the postcode in above and the checker will tell you which.
Cut-off is 11:00 AM everywhere - receptions close, staff rooms empty out, and this way it lands well before the doors do. A posy sitting overnight at a locked front desk makes nobody's day.
Every state, every weekday.
One exception, and we're sorry about it: we can't deliver to schools or businesses in Gold Coast, Geelong or Mornington Peninsula at all. A home address in those areas is no problem.
Order by 2:00 PM and it goes out the same day. 98% arrive the next working day; a small number take up to four, usually the genuinely remote ones.
We couldn't buy a box that did the job, so we engineered our own and then spent a while trying to break it. A posy in one of these has survived a fall from a second-floor window and come out arrangement-intact. Couriers do worse than that, and we'd rather the box took it than the flowers.
Tassie's biosecurity rules are strict about plant material crossing Bass Strait, and we'd rather not have your gift stopped at the border. So no fresh flowers or plants - but hampers, dessert boxes, champagne and personalised gifts all go across happily. Order by 2pm for next-day dispatch.
Shop gifts we can send to Tasmania →In December 2014, Hannah and Verity started LVLY with one non-negotiable idea: if you think of someone today, they should hear from you today.
There was one problem. Nobody in Australia would do it. Same-day flower delivery wasn't a service you could buy from a logistics partner - it barely existed as a concept. So they did it themselves. Two former ad strategists, driving posies around Melbourne, then hiring their own drivers when the car boot ran out of room.
is roughly how long it took the logistics industry to catch up and offer what LVLY had already been promising customers the whole time.
That's why the cut-off times on this page are so specific. We're not quoting someone else's service window back at you - we worked out what was actually possible by doing it ourselves, and the numbers above are what we know we can hit.
Metro orders don't go anywhere near a general courier. They're carried by drivers who handle flowers and nothing else - no parcels stacked on top, no six-hour van route, no depot overnight. It's the same reason Han and Vez were driving posies around Melbourne themselves in 2015: we've never found a way to send flowers with everyone else's freight and have them arrive looking like the photo.
That costs more. It's most of what you're paying for, and it's the difference between a bouquet that turns up and a bouquet that turns up right.
Our metro drivers carry nothing else. Your posy isn't sharing space with someone's tyres.
Metro orders get a tracking link the moment the driver sets off, so you're not refreshing your email at 4pm.
Birthdays, funerals, apologies, good news. These aren't parcels that can turn up Tuesday-ish.
The worst part of sending a gift is the silence afterwards. Did it get there? Did they like it? Was the address right? You sent something for your mum's birthday and now you're refreshing your email at 4pm hoping for a sign.
So on metro orders, the moment your posy is on its way we send you a tracking link. Open it and you'll see the delivery move - out for delivery, close, handed over - no ringing us, no wondering, no awkward “did you get my flowers?” text that spoils the surprise.
Made up this morning, in the studio closest to the address.
Sent as the driver sets off, with flowers and nothing else on board.
You hear about it before they do - or at least at the same time.
Tracking links are sent on metro same-day orders. National next-day travels with our carrier's own tracking.
We're licensed to sell alcohol (Liquor Licence 36148709), which comes with rules we can't bend. Someone over 18 has to be there to accept it, they may be asked for ID, and it can't be left at the door. Worth a heads-up to whoever's receiving it - an unattended champagne delivery is one we have to take home again.
Every day of the year. Cut-offs shift a bit on Saturdays and Sundays - check the cards above, or use the postcode checker for your exact time.
Not a specific hour, no. Our drivers run from 11am to 9pm and route by area, which is how we keep same-day affordable. You choose the date; we handle the rest.
For most deliveries we'll leave it in a safe spot and let you know. Alcohol is the exception - that needs an adult to sign for it.
Yes. Pick any date at checkout and we'll hold it.
Biosecurity rules on plant material crossing Bass Strait. Gifts, hampers and dessert boxes are all fine.
Not yet. Email hello@lvly.com.au and we'll see what we can do.
Because metro orders travel with drivers who carry flowers and nothing else, and because you get a tracking link the moment it's on the way. It's more than a parcel courier would charge, and it's the reason your flowers look like the photo when they land. The longer answer →