Big USPS Rant! This is so Unacceptable!!Arrived, Not good Pic added P6

[Mahonri]

pips&peeps :

"No lives on Fridays"

Agreed, If you can't send live birds on Monday or Tuesday, wait till the next week I always say.

No blaming here, it's just the nature of the beast. I've read enough posts here to know.

I'm thankful for my PO... McMurray sent me my chicks last year on a Friday. They got here Sunday morning and someone down at the office came in a truck and delivered them to my door.​

 

[joebryant]

I've bought eggs from people here on BYC twice, and both times the UPS or USPS scrambled some of the yolks. Once I put eight of them under a silkied and only one hatched. Recently, I put twelve in an incubator, and after ten days, it was easy to see that four of them were scrambled. Folks, those are the "breaks", ain't nuthin gonna change. Postal workers and UPS workers have no time to read "Handle Carefully" on packages. All packages in transit pretty much get treated the same, and eggs WILL get damaged.
BTW, both shipments were VERY WELL packaged by the senders; heck, one even enclosed the insides with styrofoam sheets enclosing wadded paper, and eggs wrapped in bubble wrap.
It's a matter of LUCK if you get all intact, undamaged eggs. Personally, I would never mess with shipping eggs. If anyone in Indiana wanted a half-dozen bbs Orpington eggs they could have them for free if they wanted to pick them up; Anne and I get more than we can eat from our three hens.

 

[lockedhearts]

I just got a PM from the Buyer along with a pic, the PO called him and he went to pic them up, Sadly all dead.
The pic shows them from looking down in the box and it appears to me the box was tossed and or thrown hapazardly, why do I say that.

1) The chicks are covered with shavings

2) the newspaper showing is what held the hand warmer packs and it was completely under the shavings

I am printing the picture and taking this and the receipt to the PO with me tomorrow morning.

 

[Shared Acres]

That's horrible!

 

[lurky]

That is so sad

 

[klf73]

I'm sorry

poor things

 

[hinkjc]

I find these threads disheartening. This is so sad for those poor chicks.

First of all, those chicks should not have been shipped. They are too young at only 3 weeks old. They would never be able to hold over without food (that they know) or to hold their own body temperature.

This is why chicks are shipped as day olds and not a few weeks old. Day old chicks have food supply from yolk absorption to last them 72 hours and enough chicks shipped with them for body heat.

If you want to ship started chicks, do so when they are mature enough to sustain shipping. They must be able to hold their own body heat (approx 6-8 weeks old - older is preferred) and they must be able to find the food source and be familiar with it. Shipping early in the week is critical to avoid weekend layovers, although that is not what killed these chicks since it was less than 2 days. A proper aged chick could have made it in 2 days of shipping. These chicks should not have been allowed to be put in a box or accepted for shipment.

These are hard lessons learned from people who didn't think this through very carefully. I'm so sorry for those poor birds who suffered thru this.

 

[asher]

:-( Poor babies. I've only shipped older well started ones and then, of course, had day olds shipped in. I was always told they shouldn't be shipped past day olds until they were much older so I'd suggest looking in to that before attempting any more of that age. (Of course, you won't ship again on Fridays and put in a lot more fruits if you do attempt to ship again. I generally put in one apple per bird, cut in pieces, just in case they take longer so that they do not become dehydrated.)

 

[texaschickmama]

I will never ship live chicks through the mail, ever. I will sell locally. I'll just cut the USPS out of the equation. I'm so sorry for you. That really sux. Poor babies.

 

[debilorrah]

Locked I am so sorry this happened. What a hard way to learn