They arrived in their own individual snake bags, with newspaper crumpled around them, two hand warmer heat packs, then all sides of the box had styrofoam inserts inside. I've received two other shipments from other breeders the same way (sans newspaper - I think they used packing peanuts), so does that sound wrong to you guys? New at this, so don't know what's standard and what is subpar. It looked like the reptile shipping boxes you can buy from LLLreptile.
The Fedex guy brought them to my sideways (not a real biggie, but didn't appreciate the fact that he was ignoring the arrows pointing UP), I mentioned to him to please be careful since there were live animals inside. LIVE HARMLESS REPTILE and BALL PYTHON were both written on the sides of the box. He then says, Oh, I hope they are okay, they've been by the door all morning. So every time he made a drop off on his way to me they were blasted with our 20 degree NH air. So I don't know if it is FED-EX or the shippers fault, but either way it was a horrible experience to open the box and feel like they had been in the fridge all day. No movement, limp, but not bendable. I thought they were both deceased. I'm amazed and thrilled that they both survived and if an RI is the worst of what is wrong with them, I'll be happy.

Just really didn't know other than bumping up the heat whether to add humidity, or keep it dry since I've been told both by people with more experience than me.
Currently he's only got his water bowl, but I provide all my snakes with a moist hide on the warm side to aid in shedding and I took that out for the time being.

Thanks for input and if anyone else has a reason why humidity should be increased, I'd love to hear it!

Thanks,
Nicole