Post office woes

[Melissa Rose]

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I didn't think UPS delivered live animals???? OR is it just chicks they won't deliver?
Actually I really surprised that any of them do? With the impersonal service and all of the automation these days I'm surprised any of the LIVE animals make it at all !

I sent eggs marked 'Live Embryos" handle with care once and they marked Undeliverable. My PO said the "Live Embryos' may have sent up a red flag thinking that it was a hazzard material or something like that. She madea phone call and the package went on it's way. Now I just put Fragile, I don't mark it eggs. Not everyone at the PO enjoys their job.
Also the Postmaster in town used to work in Milw WI and he told me that even though the packages may be marked fragile they still get tossed. He also told me that the bigger the package might be safer for eggs since the smaller ones are easier to toss into the bins from a distance. The bigger ones they have to carry over. They all get other packages piled on top of each other regardless.

I think of mailing eggs, chicks or any other live animal similar to putting your child on plane, ALONE !!!! Who knows what might happen !!! Still can't believe some people do that either !!!! Why would you expect the airlines to babysit your child or the PO to babysit your package and treat it like their own ???? It's a gamble but a whole lot cheaper then getting it their yourself !!

UPS delivers Live Harmless Reptiles and Feeder Insects. The reptiles don't require nutrition or fluids during shipping.

 

[rancher hicks]

What many folks don't know is..............

The post office is "consolidating" the processing plants in many areas , so...................

While I live in Syracuse and we have a processing plant............ And Watertown used to process their mail and the Northern NY area....................And Utica used to process their mail and surrounding areas......................Watertown and Utica are now done in Syracuse.

So you get the idea?

Now suppose you mail a priority package from Syracuse to Watertown? That piece of mail goes WEST to Rochester and is processed and then sent BACK to Syracuse and THEN sent NORTH to Watertown.

So you get the idea?

Now figure this for your area. It all depends on the flight pattern of the Airline that is being used. The postal service no longer and hasn't for a long time had it's own airline. They contract to whoever.

In some case "Priority" mail is not faster than "First Class". A First Class piece of mail goes right up to Watertown from Syracuse.

Keep an eye on the tracking. When those packages get to you , go to the USPS site and you will see where that package has been and which Airports it has to go through to get to you.

Hope all goes well with those expecting shipped eggs. Oh and egg shippers? Don't hold eggs expecting a three day delivery by Priority. Priority mail is NOT guaranteed. Some times it takes just as long as Parcel Post. Better to ship fresh, that day, eggs.


I wish everyone well,

Rancher

 

[FrenchToast]

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I didn't think UPS delivered live animals???? OR is it just chicks they won't deliver?
Actually I really surprised that any of them do? With the impersonal service and all of the automation these days I'm surprised any of the LIVE animals make it at all !

I sent eggs marked 'Live Embryos" handle with care once and they marked Undeliverable. My PO said the "Live Embryos' may have sent up a red flag thinking that it was a hazzard material or something like that. She madea phone call and the package went on it's way. Now I just put Fragile, I don't mark it eggs. Not everyone at the PO enjoys their job.
Also the Postmaster in town used to work in Milw WI and he told me that even though the packages may be marked fragile they still get tossed. He also told me that the bigger the package might be safer for eggs since the smaller ones are easier to toss into the bins from a distance. The bigger ones they have to carry over. They all get other packages piled on top of each other regardless.

I think of mailing eggs, chicks or any other live animal similar to putting your child on plane, ALONE !!!! Who knows what might happen !!! Still can't believe some people do that either !!!! Why would you expect the airlines to babysit your child or the PO to babysit your package and treat it like their own ???? It's a gamble but a whole lot cheaper then getting it their yourself !!

UPS delivers Live Harmless Reptiles and Feeder Insects. The reptiles don't require nutrition or fluids during shipping.

Either do day old chicks. So what is their reasoning for not taking chicks? Or Eggs?

 

[RareBreedFancier]

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We have 5 day delivery over here. Egg sellers using regular post just post on Monday or Tuesday to be sure they are delivered before the weekend. Most mail is delivered in two days anyway but there is always the odd thing that isn't. I'd never skimp on the few $ and have eggs sent regular though, and many sellers will only send by overnight express.

I can assure you 5 day delivery won't kill your business.

 

[Melissa Rose]

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UPS delivers Live Harmless Reptiles and Feeder Insects. The reptiles don't require nutrition or fluids during shipping.

Either do day old chicks. So what is their reasoning for not taking chicks? Or Eggs?

If the chicks were lost in transit they would require care of some sort. Reptiles can go for a very long time literally weeks with out either with no ill effects. As for the eggs I don't know why on that. The only reason I know this is because we were informed by the UPS workers as we waited to ship a Tortoise to Maine. I donated a Russian Tortoise to a teacher in Maine for her Classroom Companion and as we waited for the forms to be processed I asked why they did not do chicks. I wish I had inquired about the eggs.

 

[namastemama]

I am about ready to give up on the flipping post office. I have had some packages that were first class take over 2 weeks to arrive.

 

[ScottyHOMEy]

Keep in mind that the USPS is the only carrier that will accept live chicks for shipment.

As for delivery points . . I was a postmaster. I had a lady put up a box along the road, create her own box number for the rural route she lived along, and put in a change of address order from her post office box to her made-up rural route box number. I did not authorize delivery to her box.

She first called to protest. I explained that she had placed her box on the wrong side of the road. What difference would that make? Our town is located along a river. She lived on one of the streets that rises up steeply from the main street that parallels the river. She put her box in front of her home, on the steep part of the uphill as you go into her dead-end street. Bad place for a box. Bad place for a carrier to continue along the route, in some of our foul Maine winter weather. On a hill like that on a street on which the carrier would be going by in both directions, the box needed to be across the street on the downhill side. A narrow street at that. I even offered that it would be easier for her to keep the box shoveled out for access, because the plow would push more to her side coming into the dead-end than it would to the other side of the street coming back out. She allowed as how I was moron.

A week later she showed up in the office. Her newest reason for me to allow delivery to the box was that she had spent money landscaping around it. I could only tell her that I don't make contentious decisions lightly and had been up to look at the box she had set out, and that unless she had had the town change the grade of the hill sine I'd looke dthings over, the six-pack of marigolds she had set around the mailbox post weren't exactly a considerable expense. She unveiled the threat of unleashing her husband, the architect obviously possessed of an intelligence superior to my own, upon me. I never did hear from him.

Don't play the Postal Service, or its people, for idiots.

Would we be having this same discussion if this site were Backyard Cows?

 

[billiejo21]

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That's only true for certain types of shipping through FEDEX/UPS. FEDEX smart post uses the USPS to deliver...and I must say, it is a MISERABLE system...if something is sent FEDEX smart post, it usually takes about 4 weeks to get to me...even if it is shipped from the state right next to me. Otherwise, the FEDEX truck and UPS truck drops the deliveries off at my door step, I see thier truck, their uniform and their faces. I live in a rural area, and they are still making the deliveries to me!