Gift Hampers Delivered to Warwick

Southern Downs addresses, right down to the state border

Warwick uses 4370 and is where the Southern Downs Regional Council is run from, a council assembled in 2008 out of the Shires of Warwick and Stanthorpe. It reaches a long way south: Allora is 4362, Killarney 4373 about 34 km to the south-east, Stanthorpe 4380, and Wallangarra 4383 sits on the Queensland side of the border about 98 km from Warwick, with Jennings in New South Wales on the other side of the line. Two towns, two states, so the state on the label decides where a parcel goes. Leyburn and Yangan belong to the same council again.

There is also a Warwick in Perth's northern suburbs, postcode 6024, about 16 km from that city centre inside the City of Joondalup, which is the other reason to write QLD.

Farms, border towns and the people who keep them going

Warwick is a service centre for the surrounding Darling Downs agricultural industry, so a good number of gifts go to a property rather than a street. Give the road name in full and the number as the resident gives it, and name the locality, because Allora, Yangan and Killarney each sort separately from Warwick itself. Warwick Hospital is at 56 Locke Street under the Darling Downs Hospital and Health Service, and a hospital address needs the department on it as well as a person.

Birthdays, sympathy, a new arrival and staff thank-yous fill most of the orders from here. The birthday hampers are the easiest starting point, and for a household that is out working through the day, the savoury hampers ask less of whoever finally brings the box inside.