Because if you ask 20 people you get 20 answers. Everyone thinks they know the best way... and not to sound mean, but no one told me. I just used common sense and some creative thinking.
Seriously, though, I have learned in my years that people don't listen to advice... somewhere along the line people thought egg cartons were a good idea. So if one gets jarred they all get jarred the same. To me, egg cartons are lazy... it takes me about 20 minutes to pack one box. I also should add that from the best breeders I have got eggs from... they never use cartons. It's the backyarders and newbies that do. wink
Sure, I expect there would be a quite few "opinions"
, which is fine. Maybe shipper A's technique works well for a certain region while shipper B's doesn't.
IMO, other than showing newbies how to correctly pack eggs, we need to tackle the problem with shipped eggs at the source of the problem--the Post Office. Bird Shippers of America fought for their right to ship live birds, so egg sellers/buyers should do the same, in terms of expecting better handling of packages. It helps that bird shippers use a certain box design that lets the sorting employees know right away that they are dealing with lives. Why not have a special box designed for shipping eggs? The problem with using the standard USPS boxes is that those all look alike...but, what if the egg box is a hot pink box with a pre-printed design of eggs and chicks? Now that will stand out in a sea of standard USPS boxes in the sorting department.
We need to have an organized effort to let USPS know that we're tired of paying a lot of money for a box of eggs to receive careful handling when it's obvious the box was kicked, dropped, stepped on, or whatever...or x-rayed.
I still think it would help to have a special box designed for shipping eggs!
Seriously, though, I have learned in my years that people don't listen to advice... somewhere along the line people thought egg cartons were a good idea. So if one gets jarred they all get jarred the same. To me, egg cartons are lazy... it takes me about 20 minutes to pack one box. I also should add that from the best breeders I have got eggs from... they never use cartons. It's the backyarders and newbies that do. wink
Sure, I expect there would be a quite few "opinions"
IMO, other than showing newbies how to correctly pack eggs, we need to tackle the problem with shipped eggs at the source of the problem--the Post Office. Bird Shippers of America fought for their right to ship live birds, so egg sellers/buyers should do the same, in terms of expecting better handling of packages. It helps that bird shippers use a certain box design that lets the sorting employees know right away that they are dealing with lives. Why not have a special box designed for shipping eggs? The problem with using the standard USPS boxes is that those all look alike...but, what if the egg box is a hot pink box with a pre-printed design of eggs and chicks? Now that will stand out in a sea of standard USPS boxes in the sorting department.
We need to have an organized effort to let USPS know that we're tired of paying a lot of money for a box of eggs to receive careful handling when it's obvious the box was kicked, dropped, stepped on, or whatever...or x-rayed.
I still think it would help to have a special box designed for shipping eggs!
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cant wait and im happy to here of the meeting place or has that stopped?
