Where romance orders actually land in this county splits three ways, and each has its own trap. The first is apartments — Reading has a large rental stock, from the upper floors above the Penn Street and North Ninth Street storefronts to the converted rowhouses in the 19601, 19602 and 19604 wards, where the street door opens onto the sidewalk and a buzzer panel carries three surnames, none of them necessarily the one on your order. Give the apartment letter, the name on the buzzer, and a mobile number; without those, a romantic surprise becomes a card left in a vestibule. The second is campuses, where a delivery is a mailroom transaction and not a doorstep one: Albright College at 13th and Bern in 19604, Alvernia University on Saint Bernardine Street in 19607 and its CollegeTowne building at 401 Penn Street, Penn State Berks on Tulpehocken Road in Spring Township, Reading Area Community College on South Second Street by the river, and Kutztown University twenty miles northeast inside our radius. Residence-hall front desks keep hours, will not release a delivery to anyone but the named student, and empty out entirely during breaks — so check the academic calendar before you send roses to a hall in the third week of December. The third is houses: driveway addresses in Wyomissing (19610), West Reading (19611), Shillington and Kenhorst (19607), Sinking Spring (19608), Muhlenberg and Laureldale (19605), Exeter Township and Reiffton (19606), and out through Birdsboro, Boyertown, Fleetwood and the southern Berks towns that Morgantown serves. Two closing specifics that are particular to Reading. Card messages in Spanish are entirely normal here — roughly two-thirds of the city's residents are Hispanic, the largest share of any Pennsylvania city — and the shops copy your message exactly as typed, so write it in the language the two of you actually use with each other. And this is a shift-work county: plenty of recipients work second or third shift at the plants and distribution centers, sleep through the middle of the day and leave for work at three in the afternoon. A delivery timed to a 9-to-5 life will find an empty house. Ask the person who knows their schedule, then pick the window around it.