The hatcheries cannot adjust shipping due to weather. The birds hatch out and have to be shipped immediately. If they don't ship in the first day, they get put in a meat grinder. That's not an exaggeration, that's not hyperbole. They get put in a high speed meat grinder.
USPS, UPS, and Fedex...
You're confusing federal law and postal regulations.
This is what it says in the requirements:
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This means they won't ship from Florida to rural Alaska - it doesn't mean they won't ship before a snowstorm. Chicks can only be shipped at a day old - they have to go in the mail...
USPS doesn't disregard anything - they make it very clear how things get shipped with each service. If you need guaranteed 2 day delivery, priority mail is not the service to use. They're not the problem here. The problem is shipping chicks at the worst time of the year using a non-guaranteed...
And you're going to have more delays in Jan-Mar than any other time of the year - especially a year as snowy as this one- this is the worst time of the year to ship these things.
Chicks go through their yolk stores much faster when they're cold. They need energy to keep warm.
Wait a couple...