In a nod to the season, there’s a blinking Christmas tree with a Santa figurine in the center of the Ravens locker room. And there are packages everywhere, although they aren’t placed under the tree.

Instead, they’re hand-delivered by Santa’s helpers (in this case, a group of local firemen volunteering on their day off) to each player’s locker unless they’re too large, in which case they head to the equipment room.

It’s the busiest time of year for those in the shipping and delivery business as people do much of their holiday shopping online, but this sweet mail setup is available all year long to the Ravens. Instead of ordering packages to their homes, where they, too, deal with package thieves, players can simply use the address “First name, Last name, 1 Winning Drive” to have their order sent to the facility in Owings Mills.

It’s a nugget of wisdom that veterans share (or don’t) with new players. Nose tackle Michael Pierce, who has played seven of his eight NFL season in Baltimore, said people told him to just order everything to The Castle so he doesn’t have to worry about security or signing for things. Defensive end Brent Urban, who joined the Ravens the year before Pierce, said he ordered a lot of stuff to the facility when he was younger because he was Canadian and the team’s complex was his billing address.

No one shared this knowledge with outside linebackers Tavius Robinson and Malik Harrison, but it didn’t take them long to catch on.

“I was like I’ve been seeing a lot of boxes come here; I see hella people just walking out,” Harrison said, mimicking people carrying boxes out of the room. “So I’m like, okay, that’s actually a smart idea.”

And so he began ordering everything, from pairs of socks he saw advertised on Instagram to the fancy sneakers he’s passionate about, delivered to the facility.

Some guys, like safety Kyle Hamilton, only order smaller items to Owings Mills. Others, like running back Keaton Mitchell, place no limits on what gets delivered. Rashod Bateman said he and fellow wide receiver Zay Flowers might see the largest influx of packages, something other players validated, but Mitchell admitted he’s up there when it comes to the most active online shoppers.

Not all the packages are ordered by the players. Agencies, universities and companies send gifts and promotional items. Hamilton gets a lot of stuff sent to him by Under Armour and tequila companies. Offensive lineman Patrick Mekari pointed out a new suitcase punter Jordan Stout was sent by his agency. Bateman remembered how wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. constantly received clothes last season. With Beckham being such a superstar, Bateman wasn’t sure how much was ordered versus gifted, but he recalled a time “this dude got two mega boxes shipped here of luxury clothing.” Beckham invited his teammates to go pick out clothing from the box.

Clothing might be the most common item players said they had delivered to the facility, but the locker room sees a wide range of items:

• Hamilton said that although he doesn’t drink much during the season, he orders a lot of wine and IPAs, which he prefers over the tequila he gets sent. The most interesting thing he’s ordered, however, was a tiny motorized Lamborghini for defensive lineman Broderick Washington’s son’s birthday. The equipment staff put it together for him and drove it into the locker room.
• Mitchell ordered a giant Road Runner poster of himself. He also ordered a 55-inch TV that Robinson had to drive home for him because it didn’t fit in Mitchell’s car.
• Pierce orders a lot of clothing and shoes, but one of the most important items he had sent to the facility was a tennis necklace for his wife.
• Mekari said he orders lots of things to the facility, but the most out-of-the-ordinary might be large picture frames.

Sometimes it’s clear what’s arrived. Bottles of wine sit in the cup holders between seats. An air fryer was parked in the middle of the floor. Clothing and shoe boxes are labeled, as are items from universities. Lotions and other products are sometimes lined up in cubbies. Once, Harrison said cornerback Marlon Humphrey received a giant stuffed moose, and it was just chilling in his locker.

But oftentimes the deliveries are mysterious cardboard boxes, which leaves teammates to side-eye and wonder.

“There are some Big. Ass. Boxes,” Robinson said. “And it’s like, What’s even in there?”

With Christmas around the corner, the anonymity can be good for hiding gifts. The defensive line held their Secret Santa exchange Monday. Pierce got rookie Adisa Isaac tickets to the Gervonta Davis fight in Isaac’s hometown of Brooklyn, which is easy to hide.

But Harrison and Robinson did something crazy to acquire their Secret Santa gifts. Harrison, who got Will Kwenkeu shoes and a hoodie, and Robinson, who replaced Nnamdi Madubuike’s broken PlayStation 5, stepped away from their screens and out of the facility to do it the old-fashioned way. They actually went to the stores.