Market blocks — Belvedere Square, the Avenue, Cross Street, Broadway, Lexington
Belvedere Square on the north side, Hampden's Avenue on 36th Street, Cross Street Market in Federal Hill, Broadway Market in Fells Point, Lexington Market trading since 1782, Hollins and Avenue Markets, the Saturday 32nd Street Farmers Market in Waverly and the Sunday market under the JFX viaduct
Rowhouse stoop routes — Canton to Pigtown
Canton Square, Patterson Park, Brewers Hill, Highlandtown, Greektown, Fells Point, Federal Hill, Riverside, Locust Point, Pigtown, Union Square and Hollins Roundhouse — marble steps straight onto the sidewalk, so a mobile number or a named neighbor is what completes the hand-off
North-side porches — Roland Park to Lauraville
Roland Park, Homeland, Guilford around Sherwood Gardens, Tuscany-Canterbury, Original Northwood, Mount Washington, Cheswolde, and the Harford Road and Belair Road porch blocks through Hamilton, Lauraville and Beverly Hills — detached houses where an afternoon hand-off usually works first time
School front offices and campus departments
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore City College, Western High School, Mervo and Dunbar, plus Gilman, Roland Park Country School, Bryn Mawr, Friends School, Boys' Latin, the Park School, Loyola Blakefield and Calvert Hall, Mount St. Joseph, Notre Dame Prep, McDonogh, Garrison Forest and Beth Tfiloh — main-office drops, mid-morning beats dismissal
County everyday ring
Towson, Ruxton and Timonium off Falls Road; Parkville, Carney and Loch Raven; Essex, Middle River, Rosedale and Dundalk; Pikesville, Randallstown, Lochearn, Owings Mills and Reisterstown; Catonsville, Arbutus, Halethorpe and Lansdowne; Ellicott City's Main Street and Baltimore National Pike; Millersville, Pasadena, Severna Park and Glen Burnie
Seasonal local material
April tulips while Sherwood Gardens in Guilford is in bloom before the bulb dig, black-eyed Susan from late May — Maryland's state flower and the bloom the Preakness blanket at Pimlico imitates — then zinnia, celosia, dahlia, sunflower and hydrangea from Baltimore County and Howard County growers through September; winter narrows to tulip, ranunculus, alstroemeria, spray rose and carnation
Guest-room and welcome drops
Harbor hotels and Fells Point inns for out-of-town family arriving for a weekend — Four Seasons at Harbor East, Sagamore Pendry, Hotel Revival and The Ivy in Mount Vernon, Kimpton Hotel Monaco, the Admiral Fell Inn, the Inn at Henderson's Wharf, Turf Valley Resort in Ellicott City — front-desk hold with the reservation name