A little Off Track but I think everyone should read

[ESofVA]

This is about a case concerning the mishandling of a box of chicks by a USPS carrier which resulted in 13 deaths of day old chicks? USPS states they can not do anything about it because they weren't insured. Since the deaths occured as a direct result of their mishandling of the box, does that mean they can do whatever with it and have no repercussions just because it isn't insured? It is not like the carrier didn't know what was in there. It is not like the poultry operation has no fault...they dont..The chicks were shipped in a standard box for shipping day old chicks with heat pads. Our postmaster is the one who told me how they were on the USPS truck.
I am furious that this could happen.
and...USPS ia actually wanting to charge 9.00 more on shipping chicks and they can't even make any effort to keep the box flat in the truck??????
I am infuriated as well as out of the $80.00 for the amt it cost me for the chicks that died.
say NO to their request for increased shipping costs for poultry if they even be reasonably responsible for their handling of shipments.

 

[tec27]

Thats true. They werent insured. When you are buying expensive chicks, you get them insured. How do you know the deaths occurred as a direct result of their mishandling? You cannot prove that. It could possibly have been disease or since a heatpad was present with warm weather, plus the body heat from those chicks, plus the box being in a truck, the chicks could have died from heat exhaustion. There are just too many factors and USPS has no responsibility. Now if the box was completely disfigured and torn apart, then yes, but in this case you cant assume. There are warnings when you buy day old chicks, and death happens to be the main one.

 

[ESofVA]

Some poultry houses do not insure and it was not hot enough for it to hurt them. Whe you turn a box on its side making only what?? about 1/3 of the space they had, trampling especially in bantams is lethal.

 

[tec27]

Try buying from a supplier that insures.

 

[av8torcrj]

Sorry to hear of your loss. I've experienced the disappointment of opening a box of birds that had a difficult trip. Having worked in the airline industry for 15 years I can tell you these little creatures are in the hands of people other than postal workers at times during shipment. I can't tell you how many times I've walked around the airport ramp or my own aircraft and seen boxes of chicks either roasting in a baggage cart or freezing on the Tarmac. To most workers its just a box that makes noise and not much else unfortunately. I've even seen the boxes left in the rain. I got to the point that I would track the flight my shipment was on and pick them up at the airport transfer station to get them " out of the system" as quickly as possible. One winter I even called the gate in Minneapolis and spoke to the captain of the flight who went out in the cold and got my birds from the cargo hold and they flew down in the cockpit. My personal theory now is, if I wouldn't be comfortable sleeping in a cardboard box in the weather conditions between my home and the hatchery, I don't order. So far, so good.

 

[ESofVA]

I want EVERYONE to understand that this was NOT the fault of the place where I ordered them from. They did a great job. It was USPS that messed up!.