USPS scrambled eggs with pics.

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Yes, actual popcorn.

maybe they (the eggs) needed a snack on their long journey?

 

[HenPenny]

Was the only thing on the top layer of eggs the cardboard? If so that is not good packaging. It is very important to have a protective cushion all around. Even if they were not tossed around just the simple stacking of another box on top would have crushed that top layer.

So sorry about your loss. Hope the others will be ok.

 

[halo]

Considering those eggs were only wrapped in tissue paper, I think you did very well to end up with 47 good eggs.

 

[K9ThorsMom]

How sad! I hope the rest of the eggs are ok

 

[jennh]

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I was going to make fifelakelooper's point, but they beat me to it. I am sorry for your "scrambled" eggs, but I'm sorry to tell you, they WERE NOT packed very well at all.

What were they wrapped in, paper towels? Each egg should have been "individually" wrapped in bubble wrap (BTW, the bubble faces INSIDE), then surrounded by more bubblewrap, put in a box which was then put in another box which was surrounded by bubblewrap. I work for shipping, so I know. JMHO

 

[greenriver]

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I was going to make fifelakelooper's point, but they beat me to it. I am sorry for your "scrambled" eggs, but I'm sorry to tell you, they WERE NOT packed very well at all.

What were they wrapped in, paper towels? Each egg should have been "individually" wrapped in bubble wrap (BTW, the bubble faces INSIDE), then surrounded by more bubblewrap, put in a box which was then put in another box which was surrounded by bubblewrap. I work for shipping, so I know. JMHO

They were wrapped in toliet paper.

I posted so that other shippers and buyers could learn from my experience.

1) if the packaging had two inch foam between the cartons I would not have lost any eggs.

2) Conversely, if my package would not have been thrown/dropped/ etc. I would have all the eggs.

3) If a frog had wings, he wouldn't bump his butt everytime he jumped...LOL.

Bottom line, I bought 48 and got 47 in the incubator.

 

[JenEric Farms]

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Took the words out of my mouth! I'm amazed you had 47 that weren't broken!

 

[TennesseeTruly]

Lately, the Post Office has been hell on packages. I wrap in bubble wrap, two layers of it on each egg, I cushion my eggs so well and get great feedback because of it but the Post Office STILL manages to break eggs I send. I've tried using a box in a box... still broken eggs, newspaper cushioning..still broken eggs, packing peanuts & newpaper throughout (with eggs bubblewrapped) and they still manage to break an egg or two. This has just been in the last month!!

I've been asking my customers how they wanted their eggs wrapped and some don't want bubble wrap. Even when I tell them that I don't enclose the whole egg in it. (I leave the top and bottom of the egg open and make a sleeve around the egg) I've even used foam and I got complaints that people didn't like the foam.

I think as a seller you can ask your customer, "how do you want your eggs wrapped?" Or tell them how you wrap and see if that's acceptable to them.

As far as the PO leaving your eggs at the end of your driveway because you're rural. Well I'm rural too. Out in the sticks and I used to get service right to my back door. I was having a problem with ruptured air cells and finally asked for all my packages to be held at the post office for pickup. That way their not being bounced around in a car while she does her deliveries.

Once in a while they forget and will still deliver but I don't think they will anymore after the mail lady got chased by my Black Mottled Cochin roo, Pesky, on Thursday.

I hope you get some survivors out of your eggs. Good luck!

Laurie

 

[TarHeelBlue]

I also live "out there" LOL I usually call the post office around the day before they are to arrive. It does help to be "friendly" with them. It has helped me a lot. I have also had them hold the box at the post office and not try to deliver it. I must admit, a lot of the postal workers just don't seem to care, but there are those out there who really do care. (The first ones I ordered were left by my mailbox, which is 1/2 mile from my house. That's when I decided to have them hold them at the post office. This is an extra trip into town, but it makes for much happier eggs!

 

[greenriver]

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Yep, I will be sure to do that next time.