Mailed eggs

[goatsoap]

I just won some hatching eggs from another site. Question - is it okay to mail out on Friday, knowing they are going to sit in a post office (hopefully inside) Sunday? I have noticed on BYC, eggs are usually mailed out the first of the week. Not extremely happy about it, but figured I would ask before getting in touch with them.

Thanks

 

[galanie]

You might have a problem with them being mailed on Friday. Yes, they will sit for one extra day, Sunday (not the whole weekend), but I had a different problem. The box was marked "live embryos."

The post office has an agreement with FedEx and FedEx handles some of their priority mail. If you mail from one of those mailing centers then most likely FedEx will be the one shipping the package (which is why you'll see no updates at all on the post office website). They will then deliver it to your post office. With the one mailed to me marked "live embryos," FedEx returned it to the sender marked "FedEx does not handle live embryos on the weekend." And they did this in my city, then shipped it all the way across the country back to the sender!

 

[Boggy Bottom Bantams]

ask them to ship on Saturday, if it hasnt gone out already, despite popular belief, yes they carry mail on Sunday too, it doesnt just park and stop. If you mail on Sat, the package will be there Monday morning for you. Though yes, Mon.- Wed. is usually the best and most used time to ship.
As long as it's not extremely hot or cold though, sitting a day at your P.O. will not hurt them in anyway, so this time of year they should be perfectly fine, most of us have jobs too, and like me, if it wasnt for my wife being able to take them for me, I'd have to ship everything on Saturday. I leave around 6-7 am every morning and am not back til 6-7 pm, so keep that in mind too, it may just be the only time they have to go to the PO while it's open

 

[kstaven]

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The outside temperatures, and temperatures of where they sit may have a very slight impact on the hatch rate (exposed to extreme heat or cold for a long period). The biggest overall factor shipping eggs is the shocks the box takes along the way. So really there is little to worry about. I have hatched eggs that spent almost a week in the mail with an 80% hatch rate and others that arrived overnight with a 2% hatch rate.