How long can they survive in a shipping box?

Well I was suppose to receive my snake yesterday but right from the start things went bad. The package has been delayed several times and still don't know when the package will arrive. The breeder has also been tracking the package and says it might arrive today or tomorrow. The snake was shipped monday. Is that too long for the snake to make it?

A lot of variables involved.

How was it packed? did they have a reptile heat pack? if so which one and how long was it meant to last.

What are the temps at each step of the journey and where and how is it being treated? Is it in a heated building?

YIKES! I would be very worried. If I were the breeder I would be going crazy on FedEx. Today or tomorrow is not an acceptable answer if overnight shipping was paid for and guaranteed to be in your local hub by 9am yesterday morning.

Depends on how good the shipper is what I don't understand is that the shipper cannot tell you for sure??? Did he contact Fedex, ask for a tracking on his package instead of just tracking online?

When a package get lost and it happens (happened to me 3 times in 18 months time :rolleyes:) you have to be pro-active and track get answer, once you do they will find where your package is an re-route it in the right direction and in the meantime is is usually placed in an air conditioned room until the next flight. They can also provide an exact re-delivery date not maybe tomorrow or the day after.

All my packaged arrived 24 hours late and the animals were fine.

I had one last year take two days to arrive when a whole pallet-load of overnight express packages was mistakenly put onto a ground-shipment truck instead of being sent to the airport. The snake was fine but it was shipped in July so overheating was the concern.

The shipper and SYR were on FedEx like white on rice.

Do you have the tracking number?

FedEx has an alert on their site that shipping may be delayed due to storms in the Memphis area.

Alert

Was it shipped via Fed-Ex? Or was it just mailed in a box? If it's FedEx and weather conditions are within normal limits, I can't imagine FedEx not being able to give you an exact date that it will arrive, unless in fact the package has been misplaced or delived to the wrong address, which they should still be able to tell you.

If it wasn't sent via FedEx and it was just put in a box and mailed, who knows...

My main concern would be the temperatures. I would expect a healthy snake could probably live a week or more in temps that were between 70 and 80 degrees. if there was a little airflow in the box.

FedEx tracking is apparently down. I had a hard time tracking my package today- it kept saying it was in Memphis. I called customer service twice, the first time they said the tracking system was wrong, and it would arrive by noon. The second time, they said it would be a day or two before it arrived IF I was lucky, due to severe weather. 10 minutes after I got off the phone my package arrived! Hopefully yours arrives soon, too.
They did make it clear that the FedEx tracking is malfunctioning, so I wouldn't count on it to be reliable.

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Originally Posted by Megg

FedEx tracking is apparently down. I had a hard time tracking my package today- it kept saying it was in Memphis. I called customer service twice, the first time they said the tracking system was wrong, and it would arrive by noon. The second time, they said it would be a day or two before it arrived IF I was lucky, due to severe weather. 10 minutes after I got off the phone my package arrived! Hopefully yours arrives soon, too.
They did make it clear that the FedEx tracking is malfunctioning, so I wouldn't count on it to be reliable.

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I'm having the same problem. A corn snake is supposed to arrive today but it shows to still be in Memphis but they are not sure because the tracking is down. Unacceptable answer.

Yep, and everyone had a different answer. I understand if there's severe weather in Memphis, but I'm not sure why their system is down. It would be nice if they could at least tell people where their live animal shipments are. OP, I hope your snake makes it to you okay!