American serama thread!

[Ok_Junebug]

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Don't beat yourself up...the receiver is not suppose to know how to do it....however, the sender should know the appropriate age, weather and packing to guarantee the chicks comfort and safety. Unfortunate that the innocent chicks had to suffer.

 

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

well it is 3:01 and nothing. I am going to have to stop thinking about it or I am going to have an ulcear the size of texas. I swerve for frogs on the road, so this is really killing me as an animal lover.

 

[SunnyCalifornia]

Are these the first birds you've had shipped to you?

 

[warbirds]

well it is 3:01 and nothing. I am going to have to stop thinking about it or I am going to have an ulcear the size of texas. I swerve for frogs on the road, so this is really killing me as an animal lover.

I'm so sorry this is happening to you. I've been the victim of Post Office Neglect more than once!! Every time with absolutely the most expensive rare breeds, too!!

I'd like to offer a suggestion, not just for you but for anyone who ships birds. Find out where your local USPS sort facility is. Your local office can tell you exactly where that is. When you have birds shipped to you, make a request of the shipper to put on the box "call upon arrival at sort facility in <name of town and state>" (and of course your phone number should be prominently displayed on the outside of the box). This way, the sort facility can notify you long before the birds get on a truck headed to your local post office. In our case here, there is ONE overall delivery per day from sort facility to local office............if a bird shipment misses that truck, then they sit there for another full day. We have gotten to know our sort facility managers very well, they know to call me as soon as a shipment is in regardless of time of day or night. I can shave an entire day or more off the bird travel time by driving a little over an hour north and fetching. That has saved a lot of birdie lives! Now, lately the problem has really been in the main state's sort facility...............they often hold the bird shipments, don't scan the box, and so nobody ever knows where the birds really are. Our sort facility people try to help with those issues, too, as they take my tracking number and use it to call them and request a search around the building for the box.

Hang in there!!!! Seramas are TOUGH little beggars!!!!​

 

[Memphisjourney2seramas]

first and last! I can't handle the stress. I am more stressed now than I was when I got divorced. I am sticking to eggs. The sender is sick too. we just kept getting the run around from the post office and they wouldn't do anything till it was to late.

 

[Ra_]

I'm hoping that my local post office performs better than this. I've shipped thousands of small items with them for the last 8 years and they almost always arrive in two days, even cross country and I use the cheap First Class method.

 

[SunnyCalifornia]

Dang. I'm praying for you and those little birds.

 

[SunValleySeramas]

I am sooo sorry to hear about this, it is a terrible thing, Hopefully someone has tended to them!!
Best wishes ~cara

 

[Cackling Hen]

Zoomummzy the eggs are hatching and I have one zephyr

 

[Ra_]

I am lining my shipping boxes with butcher paper to keep them clean and I am going to let birds sleep in there for a few nights prior to their shipping journey, so it's not such a stressful foreign atmosphere when they actually make the trip. I'll load them up with apples and maybe some other juicy treats and plan for the worst, just in case.

Maybe at least the suffering of the little birds now in limbo will help us to safeguard future shipments?
I sure hope the little guys make it.