The Great Egg Shipping Experiment!

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Alaskan said:
Nothing wrong with a detached air cell. Totally hatchable.
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Sucks for our average. 165 eggs shipped. 8 detached air cells. 0 cracked shells. 72% hatched.

I blame interstate 65. We should have packed the eggs for shipping when we left Huntsville. Rough road. They were in cartons on the back floorboard.

Alaskan: your next shipment will be from our eggs. If there is a detached aircell...We will keep trying at our expense
 
Wisher1000 said:
Welcome to the experiment, Bama!

Bama in helping me continue my education by gently leading me through "USPS Familiarization and Calculating Postage 101"  which should improve my skill in getting eggs to consumers more economically and in a more timely manner.  She has also provided my first experience with generating invoices and accounts payable with PayPal.

I will be shipping her a dozen hatching eggs on Monday, if the hens cooperate.  Half of them will be dark and the other half will be blue.  This time the package's destination is only 3 hours drive from me.

I made a trip to the local PO to discuss my situation with our local postmistress (gotta love living in a rural area) and LEARNED alot!  I found out that ANYTHING mailed "Parcel Post" from our area, is routed through the hub in Atlanta!  Even if it is going to a recipient in the same area.

This time I will be using a box that printer paper comes in.  That sure will be better than paying $5 for a cardboard box from the PO like I did last time.  It is smaller than the big ol' honking boxes SCG and Ron got, but it should work nicely, as long as I reinforce the seams with tape and support the sides by filling voids inside with shredded paper.  I may even be able to find another box to use inside for double boxing (which I think really makes a difference.)

I went to Walmart and studied the bubble wrap section.  Bubble wrap will cost from .10c to .21c per egg, depending on the quanity of bubble wrap purchased.  I am still on the look-out for a source that will allow me to recycle their waste bubble wrap (free!)
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sorry I'm very late joining this, but have you checked your local 'dump'? Or recycle/transfer station? They often exchange stuff like bubble wrap for people. Or buddy up with a local store that sells trinkets?
 
1kluckychik said:
Alaskan said:
Nothing wrong with a detached air cell. Totally hatchable.
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Sucks for our average. 165 eggs shipped. 8 detached air cells. 0 cracked shells. 72% hatched.

I blame interstate 65. We should have packed the eggs for shipping when we left Huntsville. Rough road. They were in cartons on the back floorboard.

Alaskan: your next shipment will be from our eggs. If there is a detached aircell...We will keep trying at our expense
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Well... You already sent me some awesome packing materials...


Let me send you back some eggs... Want Dominiques or Spitz with zero crest? (My other breeds are currently running -curse word- fertility)
 
1kluckychik said:
Have any of you used the USPS special handling (10.35) service?
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Not personally but I've heard from others that there is less scrambling of air sacs when they've tried it. Although at times there have also been claims that even paying for it does no good when disgruntled postal workers decide to be jerks and throw stuff around anyway. I've seen more people say that only labeling boxes as fragile and perishable works better, because then it seems more like food stuff to the postal workers and they aren't as apt to purposely try to harm the packages because they don't consider food to be very important.
 

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