Advice for DMs when players are far from a Catacombs Branch and want to go shopping

Even if your players do not have access to the Catacombs now, you can still let them go to the Catacombs board, take a ticket (by seeing the last number chosen and putting the next number in your subject header), and post.

But the transaction will not be complete until the party is in a position to go shopping.

For example, the Crimson Shields just killed a dragon, and the next day, still in the dragon's den, cast a Raise Dead. That put them into the Realm of Shadows, the place through which souls travel before birth or after death. There they met Gargul, god of Life & Death, who raised one of them. But he gave them a miniquest in the Realm of Shadows, which they doing now.

Point is, the DM let them go do shopping as they wished, with the caveat that the transactions would not be complete until they got back to civilization.

Now, there is another option for very kind DMs -- Special Delivery. Once, in the Grey Knights, the DM let a courier from the Catacombs teleport to the party to make deliveries. If you want to go that route, please coordinate with the Catacombs DM, and he will get one of the NPC clerks to go post on your home game board to make the delivery.

A nice DM requires a delivery charge or a tip for the courier. A very very nice DM does it for free.