Gift parcel
BLM 00
Handto heart.
- From
- you
- To
- someone who matters
Bellmere - Service
- By handDrop-off
- Code
- 4 8 2 1
FC 4821 0030 US
Got a gift for someone in Bellmere or within 15 miles? A vetted courier puts it in their hands, or a neighborhood shop holds it for pickup. And if you like, your name stays a secret until the box is open.
Choose your delivery.
Two tags, one receipt. Tie on the one that suits you, slide the distance and read the total. In the app, the final price always shows up before you pay.
Ficelle
Gifts brought to the door
Bellmere and 15 miles around
Estimate
Distance5 mi
- Service
- By hand
- Base
- $6.50
- 5 mi × $1.40
- $7.00
Estimated total$13.50
- Pickup included. A heavy package may cost a little more.
- Final price shown before you pay.
- Return to sender, if needed: $7.00.
- Visa, Mastercard, Amex or Apple Pay.
Thanks, and see you at the next knot.
The journey.
Every stop along the way gets its own stamp, live in the app. Changed your mind? Canceling is free until the courier has the package in hand.
Parcel tracking
By hand
No.FC 4821 0030 US
Wrapped
A photo of the gift, the address, the delivery type: three screens in the app, and the final price shows up before you pay.
Picked up
An independent courier, ID-checked by us, swings by to collect the package.
On the way
Their dot moves across the map in the app. Your recipient still has no idea who’s thinking of them.
Delivered
Your recipient reads out the 4-digit code we texted them; the courier enters it and the handoff is confirmed.
Sample text
Ficelle: someone tied up a gift for you. Code for your courier: 4821
Option
Drop-off
Not home during the day? A shop nearby holds the parcel.
At the drop-off shop
The courier leaves the parcel with a shop in your recipient’s neighborhood.
A link by text
Your recipient learns a parcel is waiting for them, and at which shop.
They say yes
One tap on the link is all it takes to accept the package.
Pickup
They stop by within 5 days and give their code; the shop hands over the parcel.
Not picked up within 5 days, or declined: it goes back to the sender ($7 return fee).
Inside the box.
Stuck for ideas? Bellmere’s shops have stocked their shelves in the app: things to have delivered, treatments to book, gift cards to send. Browse by shop or by occasion.
Browse the shops in the appTanners Quay, Bellmere
Opaline
Beauty bar, nails and massage
Maison Sauge
Beauty salon in Corbin Falls, by appointment in the app.
La Maison Ficelle
Our own gift boxes
By occasion
- Celebrate
- Well done
- Sorry
- Get well soon
- Just because
A party, a win, an apology, a nasty cold or no reason at all: every shelf can be sorted by why you’re giving.
Appointment card
- Service
- massage, manicure…
- Time
- their pick
Some shops open up their calendar: you give the treatment, they choose the time.
Gift card
An amount to spend at a local shop, sent in two minutes flat.
Join the network.
Behind every knot, there’s someone from Bellmere: independent couriers, drop-off shops, and stores that sell through the app.
Courier
$3 + $1.10/mi
per completed delivery
Independent contractor, ID checked. Pick the runs that suit you in Ficelle Driver.
Drop-off
$1.25
per parcel picked up
Your store holds parcels for the neighborhood. People come in with their code, and sometimes leave with a purchase.
Store
4%
per sale, no subscription
Your shelf in the app, our couriers to deliver, payouts with no chasing. Cancel in one click.
“A gift you send across town carries a little piece of you with it. I wanted that trip to run through the shops on our own streets, not some warehouse out by the highway.”
Your questions.
The essentials before you tie up your first delivery. For anything else, write to contact@ficelle.example.
See the full FAQBy hand: a vetted courier rings the doorbell and puts the parcel in your recipient’s hands. They read back the 4-digit code we texted them, and the delivery is confirmed.
Drop-off: the parcel waits at a drop-off shop in their neighborhood. They accept it from a link, then swing by whenever suits them within 5 days.