Post office throwing boxes

[joe17]

I cant believe some people are being so mean to the post office! Even if all the PO workers gently moved the eggs around to the shipping trucks, you still wouldnt have a good hatch rate. When the eggs are in the truck, that does some wear and tear itself. Try putting a box of eggs in your truck and traveling across the country. Every turn and bump can damage them. Dont just blame the people. When it is 100 degrees outside or when the trucks hit a big pot hole, what do you want them to do about it? Hold it in there hand like a new born baby? LOL Thats just asking to much. When you buy eggs, you KNOW there is a risk and you shouldnt expect great hatch rates. The post office isnt exactly for shipping chicken eggs...

Sorry, just had to get that out! Dont get me wrong, it is frustrating when you buy eggs and they dont hatch. Just dont go around blaming the PO workers for every little thing.

 

[hallerlake]

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And they wonder why the post office is loosing revenue..a lot of People are looking for other alternatives.We all totaled probably spend millions shipping eggs and the number that actually hatch are so small..it shouldnt be this much of a gamble ..I spent a fortune shipping eggs and sometimes people have a large number hatch, sometimes the externals are fine but the internals are scrambled..
If your shipping a sweater your probably fine but shipping live items is a gamble and im not sure what to do about it except look into what the commercial foam shippers that commercial farms use to ship eggs. ..

Maybe someone could write a petition and find out who actually runs the PO and if enough people sign it..it will get noticed. or as things go..might get noticed..the squeeky wheels get the grease. we just sit and take it isnt working. we are all getting nickled and dimed, these days more like dollared to death.
I have been spending more money to ship brown..

We entered an art show 2 years ago, packaged item as we always do with great care in box that had pleanty of room..the show commitee called me from kansas city Mo and said we are so sorry, your item arrived in peices..and never ever buy insurance when they ask you because you will never ever be paid for damage..its a money grubbing racket. When I went to turn in the insurance, they told me there was nothing they could compare the item to being a one of a kind item so they are refusing to pay..So I asked what the blank did you sell me insurance on it for..I fought it but they didnt back down,,,so now when they ask me would you like insurance..I turn around....look at the people in line behind me and say .No its a racket and they will NOT pay you if they damage your items. So dont buy it. a high class scam.

UPS pulled that on my husband. They said, they hadn't packed it, so they didn't know if the item was broken before packing, or how well it was packed. He complained to the state attorney general's office that selling him the insurance when they knew they wouldn't pay because of they couldn't determine the state of the prepackaged item was a scam. The state attorney general's office agreed, and complained to UPS. My husband was banned from that particular UPS store, but he got paid for the damaged item. Since then, my husband has UPS package whatever he ships through them. It adds to the cost, but when something is damaged, it is covered. He also takes pictures at the UPS office of the items right there on the counter, immediately before giving them to them. If I were buying very valuable eggs (have you seen the prices on EBay for English Orpington eggs????), I would insist on it.

 

[destin0709]

My postman seems irritated when he has to deliver a box to my house and get out of truck instead of putting it in the mailbox. I heard him throw 2 boxes on different days from my sidewalk up 3 steps to my door. Needless to say when I ordered eggs I made sure to be at door when they arrived.

 

[mandelyn]

My post man walks through my flower bed. The first time he did it, I said "Really? Through the flower bed?" and he hustled it on out of there like he didn't even hear me. Whatever, I dropped a massive creek stone there. Hop on that guy.

My egg's boxes are usually sitting outside on their side. Ugh. At the post office proper, they LOVE them some baby duckies! I got my phone call for the arrival a half hour before they opened, and about 10 employees gathered around to see me open the box. No more hatching eggs for me, shipped babies only.

 

[anniesmom]

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I have a good friend who is a mail carrier in Eugene, OR. One of her fellow employees hates the sound of the baby chicks so much that he puts the boxes out on the loading dock and leaves them there. Yes, in the middle of winter. Someone should consider drop kicking him right out of his job.