The second big category here is the thank-you that has no card category of its own. Central New York runs on small reciprocal favours through winter: the neighbor with the snowblower who does your apron while he is out, the person who fetched your bins after a storm, the one who drove somebody to a five a.m. procedure on University Hill. A bouquet to a house two streets over is the accepted local answer to all of it. Then there are the standing recipients nobody thinks of as occasions: teachers across the Liverpool district — Morgan Road, Long Branch, Elmcrest, Nate Perry, the Soule Road and Chestnut Hill buildings, and Liverpool High on Wetzel Road — who take deliveries at a main office rather than a classroom; the desk staff at Hospice of Central New York on 7th North Street; the volunteers who keep the Salt Museum and the Ska-Nonh Great Law of Peace Center running down in Onondaga Lake Park. A delivery to a school needs the teacher's full name and the building name, because the district has a lot of buildings and they are not interchangeable.
The everyday map is small and quick, which is the whole argument for treating this as routine. 13088 is the old village and Galeville: the short-lot streets around Tulip, Vine, First and Second, the library on Tulip Street, Johnson Park's gazebo, and the white Art Deco stand on Oswego Street that has been selling hot dogs since 1917. 13090 is the postwar half — Bayberry's looping streets and the Morgan Road and Wetzel Road subdivisions — where a house number after dark is less useful than a porch light. Outward from there the radius takes in 13212 North Syracuse, 13211 Mattydale, 13041 Clay, 13039 Cicero, 13029 Brewerton, 13027 Baldwinsville, all of Syracuse, and east to DeWitt, East Syracuse, Fayetteville and Manlius. On a Saturday a lot of this traffic passes the Central New York Regional Market on Park Street near the lake, which is where the county does its weekend errands and where people notice flowers and then remember to send some.