I h*te the post office

[Sonoran Silkies]

I suggest having your boyfriend carefully open the boxes AT the postoffice to check for obvious damage. He needs to mention that you will check for internal damage to the air cell by candling later, just so that it is on record as having been said.

 

[bargain]

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Agreed this is what we do.

Just as a future idea, when being mailed eggs, I alert the post office and tell them I'm "expecting" and then call early morning to see if they arrive. SOmetimes a temp employee there will miss the note on the package to Call me for pick up.

Sorry this happened and pray all will be well. Nancy

 

[secuono]

They don't open until 10am, can't call them. Having them call would also be fairly pointless, no one here to go get them until 2pm. It was a weird, hopefully one time thing that they took so long to tell me they had them.

 

[secuono]

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Seems like these won't be here until tomorrow or Saturday. Hopefully, they show before I have to leave around 1pm tomorrow.

 

[bburn]

For your own sake and the sake of the eggs your are ordering you need to develop a relationship with someone at your post office. I am really lucky in that mine is in a rural area and they would call me. But I would tell them ahead of time that I am expecting them. But then, I am cheating here because we don't have our mail delivered....we have a po box and a box of eggs would not fit in there and they leave a key to a bigger box.

But still find yourself a 'new best friend' at your post office who knows how important those eggs are to you. Gosh you need all the luck you can get on that after the special I watched on the news yesterday morning. They did a study with a sensor in a box they shipped all over the US. They used Fed EX, UPS and UPPS. Then they grades them......uh, oh! But, on a lighter note look how many eggs actually make it and hatch!!

Good luck to you and I hope you have a great hatch! I am watching and learning because come spring I am going to order from someone and my friend is going to hatch them for me in his 'bator.

 

[Organics North]

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I Love my post office... I am very rural... As you said you need a relationship.. (I suppose that it helps that I am one of their top 10 revenue generators.)

They call right a 6AM when I have chicks that came in.. I pick them up through the back door hours before they open..

ON

 

[thebirdguy]

Like they say.. it's who you know.. LOL Seriously though, Organics North is correct about building a relationship with someone at the post office. Odds are if you ask in advance, you will find that there is one person that will see your box of eggs or chicks first (unless it is a big post office) If you can get on first name basis with that person, you will have more luck in the extra care given your precious cargo. We have always gotten the early morning call for pickup at the back door as well.. Plan ahead and get that relationship going now, before your next shipment!!

good luck with your new eggs!!

 

[secuono]

We are kind of rural too and they lady knows me, but I'm not a very chit chatty friendly person. I just want my mail and that's the end of it.
There are no cars at all before they open, after they close and for their new weird 12-1pm break. It's a ghost building then, lol.

Any who, 2 of the 3 boxes are here. The eggs are so nicely packed and look great. I'm hoping for a far better hatch rate than the first/last time[0%, lol].

I'm out of bator space, most of my Japs are due Tuesday, the rest a few days later. Hope they can share, lol.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Post office personnel are at work long before the post office opens for business. They have to load up the mail they deliver on their routes, and there is a certain amount of local PO sorting, to include putting mail into the PO boxes. Every time I have had birds come, they have called me when they arrive. MOST of hte time it has been very early in the morning, long before they are open for normal business. They have always given me the option of coming down and picking up the birds (and for package pickup, you do not have to wait until the desk is open), or having htem delivered. Depending on weather and time of day I usually run down, but a couple of times have had them deliver.

 

[secuono]

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The usps site is still saying the same thing. I guess I will have to watch the mailbox or stop by to see if they are here yet.