Quote:ok that one is over my head.... someone explain or it will bug me all day? @fire370
Paddler the grumpy old man, needs more sunshine in life
I love this thread at 3AM. No annoying new posts while I'm trying to answer a question.
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I love the arrows and syrup idea. That can work.
I also agree that the eggs don't need oxygen. Actually they're better off completely cut off from ambient air.
I don't mark eggs other than how the customer requests. If they want them marked 'FRAGILE, LIVE EMBRYOS', I'll do so. If they want them marked, 'HATHING EGGS', I'll do so. Otherwise I don't mark but may start using your syrup idea.
Once when I put LIVE EMBRYOS on the box they wanted me to pay for Express Shipping because there were 'Animals' in the box. The express shipping cost would have been more than I got for the eggs, packaging and shipping together. I got out of it by convincing her that eggs were not live animals but EGGS!!!!
IMO, unless one pays additionally for special fragile handling, the package will rarely see human hands. I once applied for a programming job at the USPS. That job is akin to what happens at a brewery canning facility or any other high speed manufacture or sorting operation. Most of the time from acceptance to destination, those packages spend an amount of time on conveyors passing scanners, dropping into bins or on trucks, planes or buildings. 95% of the time, the package won't see human hands or human eyes see it except at the accepting office or the destination office.
Here's how I ship eggs.
I use the priority boxes that are just a bit bigger than my foam shippers. I reinforce the boxes with more corrugated board and any additional space gets packing peanuts.
The foam shippers are pricey but have great success and are a little less time consuming.
I wish foam was cost effective. people already are too cheap to want to pay for good shippin
I am out of ovates, def owe you a few as usual paddler, hope you have a wonderful day!
Foam is very reusable, so it might be cost effective in some cases. Where is the best place to get foam shippers?
sorry your hurting today Phil
Quote: yes it is, but I wont re-use it used anyways, its too porous to sterilize, remember I am CPT and a bit "anil" I learned a bit too much about disease me thinks. Its even hard for me to order hatching eggs from someone, yet alone chicks. I need the full testing credentials
I'm not awake at this hour, nor am I reading this, but Good Mornin' to you, as well.
