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What was once a reliable and safe method of transporting chicks has apparently been undermined by widespread overhauls of operations at the U.S. Postal Service, including cutbacks in sorting equipment, ending extra trips by carriers and an edict to end all overtime by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Some Democrats accuse DeJoy of intentionally raising concerns about the timely delivery of absentee ballots in the November election, sowing concern and confusion among voters as President Trump repeatedly asserts – without evidence – that mail-in voting is vulnerable to fraud.
Rep. Chellie Pingree, a Democrat who represents Maine’s 1st Congressional District, is raising the issue of the dead chicks and the losses Maine farms are facing in a letter to DeJoy and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue. Pingree’s office has received dozens of complaints from farmers and other Mainers just trying to raise a small flock of chickens in the backyard.
“It’s one more of the consequences of this disorganization, this sort of chaos they’ve created at the post office and nobody thought through when they were thinking of slowing down the mail,” Pingree said.
“And can you imagine, you have young kids and they are getting all excited about having a backyard flock and you go to the post office and that’s what you find?”
:roll: What an absurd message. Overnight shipping is still overnight shipping and the post office isn't the only way to ship animals. If the USPS doesn't not meet promised shipping times, the USPS is liable.
There is NO shortage of chicks in the USA.
Besides, any farmers putting little boxes with chicks in it into street post office boxes should be charged with animal cruelty AND would NEVER be delivered as you can not mail packages true mail boxes - and haven't been able to do so for years. That happened after 9/11.
So that justifies Mein Furher?
Just mail the eggs. Problem solved.
I have an order of flash frozen seafood coming from Oregon. I am hoping like a mofo that it doesn't arrive unfrozen, especially in the record Arizona heat.
Also, I receive a monthly shipment of a specific combination of amino acids from Germany. I track each shipment. Recently when the shipment arrives in New York it is hung up in the system for about a week or more. The tracking is fairly detailed. I can determine how long it remains in customs and when it is released to a mail distribution center and how it is processed from there. Just last week I changed the timing of my reorders in an effort to second guess delayed handling in the US.
In addition, most medications for veterans are mailed from the Veteran's Administration. Trump's ill-planned mail boondoggle is hurting veterans.
Scrambled eggs.
lol
But actually, the chicks are sexed before shipping because people want hens not roosters. You can't tell that when they're still in the shell.
Another consequence with screwing the postal service.
Chicks shipped by mail are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars | Lewiston Sun Journal
Imports getting stuck in customs sucks. One time we had an incoming shipment of GE-132 held up in customs, who wanted us to then fill out piles of forms due to the label being in Chinese for the white powder ($4500 a kilo). Instead, even though it a $9000 cost shipment (2 kilos), we told customs we are refusing the package and to return or destroy it - knowing we would not receive a refund either way.
Comment: China is in business. Many Chinese companies will put anything you want on product and shipping labels to get it past customs. Just tell them what you want it to say. (For the Ge-132 they had labeled it as "white printing ink powder" in Chinese - and they had decided to do that. We never asked for any misinformation for customs as that is the path to prison - but no risk to the Chinese company.)
If the animal is too big to deposit just tie its leash around the leg of the box. The mailman will take care of the rest.Maybe I should start a poll on this:
Should people be able to mail animals by depositing the animals into street post office boxes? Why call the animal shelter for stray kittens? Just put a shipping label on a string around each one's neck with postage on it and then drop them all thru a post office box on the street down the block? As long as the dog or cat isn't too large for the slot, just shove them in - chicks, cats, dogs, injured wild life... I'm sure they'd all do just fine together in those drop mail boxes. :lamo
How do you think people would vote on that? How would you?
Another consequence with screwing the postal service.
Chicks shipped by mail are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars | Lewiston Sun Journal
the chicks are sexed before shipping
Do you mean Bush or Obama? Banning anything but tiny packages being mailed out of post office boxes was under their administration.
You must mean Obama since his administration removed 12,000 post office boxes.
Just mail the eggs. Problem solved.
Eggs need to be kept warm and rotated. Hens when sitting on eggs will rotate them at least once an hour.
If they get too cold and aren’t rotated the embryo will stop developing
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