WHAT does FRAGILE mean?

[galanie]

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Would these help by any chance? I've seen something similar on Mythbusters which gave me the idea. No idea of cost yet but it would probably be worth it if it works.
http://www.shockwatch.com/images/SWPR4-06_redlabel_sm.jpg

Oh, and on insurance it's free here to register items up to $100 in value. They won't pay out on eggs but I have a sneaking suspicion they'd treat a box with 'Registered and Insured' stickers on it more gently since they won't actually know what's in it.

They will ignore that sticker completely. They know it's not really "Registered" because it would come in a locked pouch if it were, and they'd have to sign for it at every point it changed hands. Besides, as has been said many times, most packages are sorted on a conveyor belt by machine at least until they get to your local post office - where usually they are handled well. Usually.

 

[fifelakelooper]

Another BYC'er and I both got eggs from N. Hamsphire....just a few days apart. Mine had to come to North Michigan and hers to North Carolina. They were both packed in foam with little egg holes for EACH egg....inside a big block of foam. It was wrapped very well. I got mine Priority...marked Fragile..."this end up" and also said "liquids inside". Not one egg was cracked or broken.
She got hers packaged the same exact way....had two eggs broken and 1 cracked. They were both in transit 4 days. I think the difference has to be the P.O's. Mine came thru Grand Rapids to our small village P.O. Hers came to Charlotte, N.C....not sure what other p.o. it passed thru. Has to be the SIZE and busy-ness of the P.o's. I', thankful for living in a small town where people know each other!