Baby Chicks in the USPS System

My bad experience was with expressmail. They do not track shipments and do not guarantee delivery. I get express and priority mixed up sometimes, but whatever the most expensive is is the only way to send birds. I had a hatchery send them the cheaper way and they arrived after 4 days.
But they did live.

 

express mail is a joke un

 

Quote:Express is the more expensive one and how chicks should be shipped. However, the PO doesn't seem to honor their commitments which is where things don't go well. Nothing is really guaranteed next day anymore, but even if they could get them there 2nd day, they would be fine. That's a challenge sometimes tho.

Sorry to hear about this Gary..hoping they arrive in good shape yet. I've been through this myself on several occasions this year with Express. I realized that shipping from the PO I was using was causing them to miss the flight. I got them to a PO whose truck gets to the airport an hour earlier and they get there on schedule every time. Now I know not to use that other PO for lives..and even eggs sometimes. That doesn't resolve their tracking issues, but I feel better knowing they'll make it as promised. :aww

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Jody

 

Evidently the chicks can only go on certain trucks, at least that is the story they gave me. We ordered from a hatchery that was only in the next state, about 4 hours away and it took 2 1/2 days, would have been 3, but we contacted the main hub and they called us when they came in that night instead of waiting until they were shipped to our local office the next day. I have ordered from other hatcheries that were MUCH MUCH further and had them arrive in 1-2 days. Evidently they were flown in and then trucked, where the closer ones were trucked the whole way. It is all a big pain in the butt! Why have tracking if they don't actually scan the packages??? Why have overnight if they don't even guarantee it??? ARRRRGHHHH!!