shipping a wood project

hi guys, im making a knitting needle holder for an old neighborhood friend and shipping it from the Philadelphia to Daytona florida, should I worry about the change in climate affecting it? its gonna be maple from 50 year old church pews oiled and waxed or should I spray lacquer it? thanks any advice is greatly appreciated….I really wasn’t worried( im a novice at woodwork) but I talked to a guy at a wood carving show recently and he said his first ever box was shipped to Alaska and it arrived as firewood

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