Shipped eggs and a staggered incubation....for a first time?

[litljenarey]

This is my first time incubating and I think I've made a mistake. I bought some hatching eggs from My Pet Chicken but they don't have one breed I really really wanted so I bought those off ebay. I figured both would be shipping the same day so they should arrive the same day or within a day, right? Then I'd let them sit a day or two and then put them in the bator.
Well, I have no idea if the ones from MPC shipped today, I didn't get a confirmation email or anything even though I hear they ship on Mondays. If they did the should arrive on Thursday, or possibly Friday but there is the change they did not ship today. My ebay eggs shipped today. She sent them priority, and I didn't realize from the same area. So they will likely be here TOMORROW!
I thought I'd have a day or two of running the incubator and setting things up. I planned to turn everything on tomorrow. I just plugged it all in tonight and got it running, hoping I can stabilize the temp and humidity in the next 24 hours.

To increase my anxiety, the weather here has been HOT and a local breeder cautioned me today that if the eggs get warm sitting on my doorstep waiting for me to get home, that I shouldn't let them sit and should put them straight into the incubator with the turner off for a few days.

What should I do? The ebay eggs are the ones I REALLY want.

 

[Poetical Peeps]

I just did the same thing a few weeks ago -- MPC and ebay. Plus, I threw a few mutts from my own flock in while waiting for the ebay eggs. MPC never did send me a notification, but my eggs arrived on a Wednesday -- ebay ones did not arrive till Saturday.

It was a staggered hatch, but not too bad. My own eggs fared best, but that's no surprise with shipped eggs.

I have heard of letting eggs settle, but three days without turning seems a bit much.