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What bottles/containers should I use for shipping from sea level to places at higher altitudes?

I oftentimes ship a sauce only sold in my area to family at different elevations. The problem is that the bottle it’s sold in isn’t very secure and many times it’ll break in transit and leak everywhere.

What should I look for when shopping for bottles/containers to use for shipping?

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Perhaps put the bottle inside a vacuum sealed bag, and then wrap in padding.
- I hadn’t thought of this, this might be what I end up doing.
This has got to be the packing, not the bottle. I have never heard of a bottle being shipped that suddenly broke on its own, without impact with its environment being the issue.
- I should’ve mentioned the sauce is only sold by a restaurant who doesn’t package it with any sort of seal — it’s just thrown in a plastic bottle and sold that way.
  
  So the bottle doesn't break, it just pops open? This still sounds like a packaging issue. Maybe unstopper / squeeze / stopper the bottle, so it's got negative pressure. Maybe replace the cap with some other more permanent type of cap (one that doesn't have a little flip-top, if the ones they're including do, just a solid cap and then ship the flip-top one alongside it)? IDK. How is it coming apart in transit? It's not literally the plastic bottle breaking, is it?
If there is no gas bubble in the bottle, it cannot expand due to pressure - liquids are incompressible.
Something like this would probably work.

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