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No I haven't found anyone that packed well with paper towels in cartons. I'm not saying it can't be done but I'm currently in contact with a seller that did similar only a bit better packed so none were cracked but I think they all moved too much. The smaller ones are all scrambled. The only thing I've packed with paper towels were button quail eggs which are way too small with too small of cartons to wrap individually in bubble wrap so I wrapped in papertowels and taped them down into a tray before wrapping the tray in bubble wrap. If you packed a carton really well with paper towels it's possible but would take lots of paper towels. Most use shredded paper or sawdust/wood shavings instead. Either way the carton should be packed tight so the eggs can't so much as wiggle or they will suffer more damage easier. A well packed box shouldn't have broken eggs unless the PO manages to actually damage the box itself. Completely scrambled eggs should also be rare. I've had plenty of eggs shipped to me and talked to plenty of people who ship 100s of eggs and hardly ever have one arrived cracked with most having good hatch rates despite shipping across the country at various times of the year. A well packed box of eggs survives better than most would expect.
I was not happy but they are doing much better than the 8 eggs wrapped in bubble rap and in styrofoam peanuts I have one left the other 7 were clear.
This is actually the worst way I've had eggs packed that were shipped to me. The packing peanuts allow way too much shifting and while the eggs arrive unbroken they are nearly always scrambled or damaged beyond the point of growing a proper chick. I'll only accept packaging peanuts if the eggs are also packed in a carton instead of left individually wrapped. No matter how tightly the box is packed with peanuts if the eggs are left individually in the peanuts I email a complaint because I've yet to have a single egg hatch from this shipping method.
This is actually the worst way I've had eggs packed that were shipped to me. The packing peanuts allow way too much shifting and while the eggs arrive unbroken they are nearly always scrambled or damaged beyond the point of growing a proper chick. I'll only accept packaging peanuts if the eggs are also packed in a carton instead of left individually wrapped. No matter how tightly the box is packed with peanuts if the eggs are left individually in the peanuts I email a complaint because I've yet to have a single egg hatch from this shipping method.
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