What our mail lady told me today, just a heads up.

[BairleaFarm]

i dont know about the pay but ill take the PO any day over the competitors. Free shipping supplies and flat rate boxes. Works great I think and reasonably priced. Doesnt matter if i buy here or ebay but if the eggs are packaged well they make it. Ive gotten eggs in smashes boxes that where un broken. Ive also gotten mint boxes and half my order was broken. fedex is a joke. we have had several packages not delivered. run the tracking number and it says address doesnt exist or whatever. uhmm the house has been here for 190 years. UPS is to picky about the packaging.

 

[Cattitude]

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Introducing Orange Ribbon Chicken Express. Guaranteed same day service even if it takes us a week to get them there.

What someone says about "FRAGILE" and what they DO are two different things. I've been known to make off the wall comments like that just goofing around. But you know, it is really something how some people have no respect for their job or other people's property, and how they get away with doing crummy stuff. You'd think there would be more people who would yank a knot in someone's rear end if they saw them being destructive.

My brothers were made overseers of some private land near our home. A creek winds across the road several times that must be forded to get there, and lots of people like to ride ATVs on that road. My brothers put up a gate to keep people from tearing up the place and the first night someone ran into it with a truck and bent the gate up. They straightened it out and reinforced it by welding some more steel on it, and that very night someone hooked a chain to it and pulled it out of the ground. So they concreted it in. Somebody is still messing with it occasionally, but they can't get it out now. They have even cut the fence off to the side trying to get in! Those are the kind of idiots that are ruining other's mail. There is only one way to deal with that kind of person, and that is knock them in the head. But then you'd be in jail and they'd still be tearing up stuff.

Going on and on here, but I saw a big man trying to cut a teenager open with a broken beer bottle at a convenience store out in the country one time. I stepped in and got the boy into his car safely and sent him home. The store owner came out with a pistol, shot up into the air and told the big guy who was also a well known drug dealer to clear out. Well, the guy was driving even though he had his license revoked, so he drove home and got his wife to drive him to the sheriff's office where he swore out a complaint and had the store owner arrested for brandishing a firearm. Now talk about messed up! But mean people know how to use even what is supposed to be good and protective for citizens against them. Sorry I ranted. I guess you can tell that I get really ticked off when it comes to depraved individuals.

We get a lot of this around here: kids and young adults who have no respect for themselves nor anyone else, tearing up everything they come in contact with. Including themselves. It's like a death wish, and they are flooding our prison systems. What to do? I'm not sure of what I can do about them, but I do what I can to protect myself and the people I care about.

 

[darkmatter]

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My son, while at a technical school, worked for UPS for pocket money supplemental. He said the same thing that when a package comes through marked fragile or this end up, the worker attitude was to stack it upside down or toss it harder. ( he also said that UPS stood for Under Paid Slaves)

 

[Stacykins]

So the way to get it done right is to mark "Fragile: Syrup in glass bottles"

 

[gritsar]

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While I agree that packaging is important, it's not the only thing. Handling does play a part in how well your box of eggs does. In the two packages of eggs that I posted about, both were packed in the same type of box (USPS box), both had the eggs in individual bubble wrapped "envelopes", both were then wrapped in bubble wrap and then nestled in wads of newspaper in the box. In other words, both boxes were nearly identical, just came from different senders.

Again, I was in no way flaming the USPS. I grew up surrounded by letter carriers. My godfather was a letter carrier even. I was just reporting a conversation I had with our rural letter carrier and what she had observed with boxes marked "fragile" or "hatching eggs".

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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Actually being as egg shells are around 95% calcium carbonate how about printing off the Material Safety Data Sheet for calcium carbonate an tapeing it to the box under the word fragle....
http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/CaCO3.htm

 

[Imp]

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Actually being as egg shells are around 95% calcium carbonate how about printing off the Material Safety Data Sheet for calcium carbonate an tapeing it to the box under the word fragle....
http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/CaCO3.htm

Enjoy your visit from Homeland Security.

Imp

 

[Tres Amigas]

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Actually being as egg shells are around 95% calcium carbonate how about printing off the Material Safety Data Sheet for calcium carbonate an tapeing it to the box under the word fragle....
http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/CaCO3.htm

Enjoy your visit from Homeland Security.

Imp

Even funnier!!!! LOLZ!

 

[TinyTotsSeramas]

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agreed... Its all in the packing of the eggs.. if you pack them like fort knox (LAURA!) then it wont matter how hard the package is handled unless its ran over.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

If the MSDS you use is accurate it should be legal.

Heres one for egg whites.
http://www.suddenrushtattoo.com/lysozymeMSDS.pdf

Heres one for egg pouder.
http://sargentwelch.com/pdf/msds/Albumin_16.00.pdf

I bet there is one for whole eggs somewhere...