On the NPIP subject, they don't even check if you have it if you're shipping hatching eggs and birds anyway, which is the whole reason you are supposed to get it, so you can do those things. I've never been checked for it. I'm shipping duck eggs, which you don't need to be NPIP for anyway as they don't test waterfowl, but I've never been questioned. Heck, people ship live birds and aren't questioned. So, why bother? They don't need to know I have birds.