I have had all of my pipefish shipped with no problem. I have never received any unhealthy or worse, dead. Drs. F & S do a really good job packing things up too. In any case, they get the animals shipped to them in the first place. So if they have them in good shape, they should make it to us just fine.
LMK if you want to do it. I can have them shipped to Manhattan if you can pick them up here.