Help create an informative post on how you ship your eggs.

[DawnSuiter]

Here's my page with photos & details
http://www.dawnonthefarm.com/shipping_fertile_eggs.html

I ship in egg cartons and do not bubble wrap eggs.
I also use foil, but not to prevent Xraying, to prevent the damp cloth added for humidity from dampening the egg carton

 

[Pathfinders]

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Dear 4G1B,

I am sure your DH is a great guy, I would say 99% of the USPS folks I've ever met are really wonderful. But that 1% can be very hard to deal with.

I've had hatching eggs that were very well packed, had FRAGILE stickers all over them, HATCHING EGG stickers all over, etc., come just smushed. The box looked like someone had deliberately stomped on it. Half the eggs were smashed, the other half had egg all over them. These were eggs I had paid A LOT of money for. When I spoke to my local USPS guy about it, he grimaced and said that was how the box came in to them as. The seller replaced the eggs at her own expense, but it was very sad to see.

It's my feeling that it's generally not the folks who work at the end, the local PO folks, that are the problem in these instances, but the ones who work at the hub/distribution centers. They don't have day to day contact with the end user, and just don't develop the relationships with us that the others do, and so don't care.

Please give your DH a pat on the back from me, and thank him for all he does.

 

[*GEL*]

I want to give you shippers a heads up on marking the outside of the package fragile/Handle w/Care, etc.......

I work in the transportation industry and worked for several years with drivers who handle packages for a large city outer distribution center.

Whenever a package is marked fragile/Handle w/care, etc, the drivers just completely abuse it! The throw it harder, longer, bash it off the floor, just treat it terribly in general. I'm sure not all drivers, sorters, etc are that way - but this group of about 15 were the WORST! Whenever I would see them doing it, I would run out on the warehouse floor and yell at them and write up whoever I saw doing it, but it went a lot deeper than me.....lol......I am only one person. 1 driver in particular would abuse it on the sort and then just HURL it into his truck as hard as he possibly could - truly he did everything short of stomping on it with his feet.......I got him fired.

Just wanted to let you know.

 

[Pathfinders]

*GEL* :

I want to give you shippers a heads up on marking the outside of the package fragile/Handle w/Care, etc.......

I work in the transportation industry and worked for several years with drivers who handle packages for a large city outer distribution center.

Whenever a package is marked fragile/Handle w/care, etc, the drivers just completely abuse it! The throw it harder, longer, bash it off the floor, just treat it terribly in general. I'm sure not all drivers, sorters, etc are that way - but this group of about 15 were the WORST! Whenever I would see them doing it, I would run out on the warehouse floor and yell at them and write up whoever I saw doing it, but it went a lot deeper than me.....lol......I am only one person. 1 driver in particular would abuse it on the sort and then just HURL it into his truck as hard as he possibly could - truly he did everything short of stomping on it with his feet.......I got him fired.

Just wanted to let you know.

This is exactly what I was talking about, and why I flatly REFUSE to put any sort of sticker on the outside of a box that makes it look like anything out of the ordinary. No FRAGILE stickers, no HATCHING EGGS stickers, none of that.

Thanks for your comments, I do appreciate them.​

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I guess it could go either way.
I've said before --- it doesn't matter so much what is on the outside of the box, what matters is what's inside the box.

Lisa

 

[houndit]

Thank you for all your responses. I hope that this will help some people who are new to shipping eggs. I am going to refer anyone who asks me questions about shipping eggs to this post.
Thanks again. It would have been a flop without your responses.

 

[Wifezilla]

I always wrap the eggs in bubble wrap. I usually use the really big bubbles.

That's what I used, I wrapped each egg individually in the big bubble wrap with a layer of big bubble wrap on the bottom and another one on top. No broken eggs. (Sent Fedex ground...no abuse visible

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[S&SPoultryExchange]

Is there a good thread like this on how to ship live birds? I am wanting to ship for selling on eggbid.com.

 

[Pathfinders]

I wrote an article on how to ship live poultry via Express Mail, which you can see here:

http://www.ehow.com/how_4513311_ship-chicken-express-mail.html

Let me know if you have any other questions, I've shipped birds for years.

 

[Cherlyn]

Quote:
Dear 4G1B,

I am sure your DH is a great guy, I would say 99% of the USPS folks I've ever met are really wonderful. But that 1% can be very hard to deal with.

I've had hatching eggs that were very well packed, had FRAGILE stickers all over them, HATCHING EGG stickers all over, etc., come just smushed. The box looked like someone had deliberately stomped on it. Half the eggs were smashed, the other half had egg all over them. These were eggs I had paid A LOT of money for. When I spoke to my local USPS guy about it, he grimaced and said that was how the box came in to them as. The seller replaced the eggs at her own expense, but it was very sad to see.

It's my feeling that it's generally not the folks who work at the end, the local PO folks, that are the problem in these instances, but the ones who work at the hub/distribution centers. They don't have day to day contact with the end user, and just don't develop the relationships with us that the others do, and so don't care.

Please give your DH a pat on the back from me, and thank him for all he does.

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I agree with you on this. I have worked postal on and off, with the military. Those of us dealing with the customers have a much higher sense of integrity than with those at the hub, IMHO.

~Cherlyn