I haven't shipped any snakes yet, but I've had 8 snakes shipped to me via Fedex, and the boyfriend has shipped and had shipped to him probably a hundred or more times. Of the 8 that have been shipped to me, there were 3 shipped individually and one group of 5 shipped all together. Unfortunately, in the shipment of 5, one of them was DOA. I can only speculate as to what went wrong, and ultimately I think shipping 5 snakes together in bags inside of a box might not be a great idea, but the seller went above and beyond what I expected to compensate for the loss, considering I had won that group through a benefit auction and none of the money actually ended up in his pocket. Overall, I've had a positive experience with shipping, and fully plan on shipping more snakes to and from this house.