Another USPS rant!

[Funky Feathers]

Oh, allow me to put in my 2 cents....is Express any better? NO WAY! It's just more expensive but required for shipping live birds! I shipped a live bird via USP(no service) Express Mail on Tuesday from MD to AR and it is STILL not there, nowhere to be found. All the tracking says is it left Easton, MD at 6pm Tuesday evening. Hasn't been scanned since and nobody can find it! Probably dead, lost in a pile of mail somewhere. I SO HATE the USPS!!!!!

 

[chickened]

I think a lot of frustration with the USPS is because they always seem to deliver the junk mail on time with no hitch but something unusual gets lost, go figure.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Well, I agree with you that we should not be surprised when mail gets delayed occasionally. But I've got a box of eggs somewhere between Atlanta and Lindale, TX which should have been delivered yesterday, and another somewhere between Birmingham and here that should have been here today. If I don't receive them tomorrow, then it will be Monday (hopefully) and the chances of having a successful hatch (of my first shipped eggs, mind you) are getting slimmer.
I'm sure you can appreciate my frustration.

Been there myself. Yes, I do understand it is frustrating. However, without the USPS we would not even be able to ship eggs or birds. None of the other delivery services will even accept them. I appreciate what we have.

 

[welasharon]

I was going to buy some birds and the lady would put them on Delta to get them to me but someone bought them locally first. I do not like the idea of shipping them for fear of them slowly dying in a box somewhere so the idea that she would put them on the flight and I would pick them up was great but, as I said, it didn't get that far. Anyone with experience with doing that? Don't know if eggs would go or not but it does cost more. I drove 1400 miles to the end of Florida to pick up my shamo to avoid shipping.

 

[GoodLuckCharlie!]

I went to greet my postman a few months ago so I could 'get' my box of eggs-I was sooo excited to get them (pure breed Creveceour eggs). He looked at me, TOSSED THE BOX to me while I was walking over to him...there was an egg dripping out the side of it, and 3 more broken inside...after incubating them for 15 days (I was overly hopeful I could trick one into hatching still), they were all detached air sacs...none survived. I think he hated me or the eggs. Maybe my rooster 'Thor' bit him once, I dunno. But I read someone ordered chicks that were shipped via air and the person met them at the destination airport. Maybe there's a way to do it that way with eggs? Blah!

 

[Davian]

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I've never once had an issue with the USPS. I live in a small town (3500) and I know my rural delivery guy very well and my postmaster has always been great. She was awesome the day my chicks arrived. She called me at 5 am the moment they showed up and met me at their back door to pick them up. Maybe its just a small town thing but they're great to me.

I dont get the anger at the USPS...Fedex and UPS aren't any better on any of the complaints mentioned.

 

[dainerra]

my old PostMaster in WV was awesome Would call to tell me that chicks were in and to ask if I wanted to pick them up or have them brought to the house.

 

[JulieNKC]

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We just got a new guy, but the old one was a big time pothead. He'd deliver our side of the street around 11 a.m. Then for his lunch break would stop and smoke at the park (was told this by across street neighbors who smoked with him, and I'd drive by him at the park and sometimes he'd still be there hours later. The across the street people didn't get their mail til around 5-6 most days. One day he didn't come by their side til 8 p.m.! Since we've gotten the new post man ours gets here around 10-11 and theirs around 2. Big difference! He brought me eggs last week, cradled them all the way to the door and handed them to me like they were babies.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

GoodLuckCharlie! :

I went to greet my postman a few months ago so I could 'get' my box of eggs-I was sooo excited to get them (pure breed Creveceour eggs). He looked at me, TOSSED THE BOX to me while I was walking over to him...there was an egg dripping out the side of it, and 3 more broken inside...after incubating them for 15 days (I was overly hopeful I could trick one into hatching still), they were all detached air sacs...none survived. I think he hated me or the eggs. Maybe my rooster 'Thor' bit him once, I dunno. But I read someone ordered chicks that were shipped via air and the person met them at the destination airport. Maybe there's a way to do it that way with eggs? Blah!

Hi! That sounds like a case of poor packaging, and can't be blamed on USPS.​

 

[GoodLuckCharlie!]

They were packages well, the postman was laughing when he tossed the box at me and said here's your eggs. I can only imagine what went on before that. But, I get christmas packages with no problem too. Who knows.