Sending eggs in the mail?

[Jeffross1968]

I was wondering if there was a good way to send eggs through the mail for the purpose of eating. My sister lives in an area where farm fresh eggs seem to be non-existent, and I was thinking of trying to send her some. Any ideas?

 

[Stacykins]

As awesome as eggs are fresh from the farm, that is kind of costly to get eggs, since priority mail costs would be rather high for even just a dozen eggs.

 

[Whitehouse Quail]

If you don't mind the high cost...

I've done it before with great success!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

It's expensive -- but my friend in NYC thinks it is worth the expense so will pay to have me ship her eggs every month or two.
I use the large flat rate priority box from USPS. Line the bottom with crumpled newspaper and a layer of large bubble wrap.
Then I wrap each individual egg in the small bubblewrap that sticks to itself. I can get 18 eggs in the box.
Then I top it off with a layer of large bubblewrap and off it goes.
We've been doing this several years now & only had 2-3 eggs cracked in all that time.

 

[Jeffross1968]

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Interesting. That sounds like the way to go. Thanks for the tip!