advice from Postmaster on egg shipping

[waibel zoo]

What about Live Animal handle with extreme care.

 

[MichiganWoods]

My Post Master said the following to me.

Use only the Post Office boxes. They are standard sizes that their machines were designed to sort, and are less likely to be smashed in transit.

Use the (unfortunately more expensive) air mail, as then the box only passes through human hands and not the sorting machines. All priority mail boxes, whether marked fragile or not, go through the rough and tumble machine sorting process.

 

[thepetpaw]

I mark on every side of the box, fragile, hatching eggs....in bold black writing.

some eggs make it and some get broke. I think it depends on the postman (postal worker)..........I think some care and some dont.

I ship all the eggs the same way and it is so disheartening when eggs get broke. People pay good money for them and get so excited to get them - to find some broken. I always send extra...but it is also hard on the sellers..I am sure most people try and pack well but the post office employess in some locations just dont care or cant read! I think it is more along the lines is..... they handle so many boxes on a daily basis - afer a while they do not bother to read what is written on the box and handle all the boxes same way just to get the job done!!

 

[pascopol]

Quote:
One of sacred cows (USPS workers) speaks the truth.

 

[rizq]

I made a comment to my UPS man this evening about forgetting to write fragile on a box I shipped myself from ND before I left there last week and he said it was probably better off without it. It is pretty bad when even the postal and shipping service employees admit that there are those who intentionally mistreat packages marked fragile! What is the world coming to? Quality of service seems to be dropping off at a much faster rate than postage and shipping can rise! Incredible.

 

[Crunchie]

Quote:
OMG, off topic--rizq, your avatar is seriously entertaining. In a slightly disturbing way.

I have had better luck since I started marking my boxes as "LIVE Hatching Eggs." The word LIVE really seemed to make a difference. But that's just me, obviously results will vary... I also have a label for the top of the box that says "Live hatching eggs. Extremely fragile. Please do not drop, shake, or expose to temperature extremes." I have a packaging method that seems to work well for me, and I have some great feedback on hatch rates from my shipped eggs. So I'd like to think that my labeling of the packages is helping. Who knows though! Bottom line, we are shipping eggs through the mail. That's a gamble no matter how you look at it (or how you label your box).

 

[rizq]

Thanks, lol

I cannot even remember where I stole it from but I got a kick out of it.

 

[marymac]

Just was wondering, how do the hatcheries ship their eggs? What type of boxes do they use and what is printed or labeled on them?

 

[shortcake1806]

The truth is most postal workers are too busy to notice anything on the box other than the address. That's the only information they're looking for. After looking at 400+ packages in a day they all start to run together. You could write almost anything on them and the workers will rarely notice.

 

[roll8221]

I usually end up getting mine delivered in two garbage bags to stop it from leaking. And this is in a usps box. and then i get an attitude for asking why my package is destroyed? if it was an isolated incident i would understand but its every time. ive actually even physically seen one of the workers in the post office SLAMMING the packages he was picking up from the front of th P.O. into a metal cart. full hands over his head and slam dunked into the cart. isnt this supposed to be a federal job? doesnt say much about our federal standard practices. (Im dealing with postage problems from four different sets of eggs with four different problems all coming at the same time so i had to vent a little. i actually shortened t a bit from the original) glad to see im ot the only one having problems though.