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The day's mail generally arrives at a local post office in one or more drop-offs during the night or early morning. That's to provide the time needed for it to be sorted before the carriers head out onto the road to deliver it. In offices where there are several people required to get things sorted, it's not unusual for them to clock in at 6 or so in the morning. That would explain your early call.
The hatcheries and the postal service work well together. There's a reason they print your phone number on the mailing label. That would give your local office the ability to call and offer you the option of picking them up early, if you hadn't already called ahead to ask them to.
But it gets better. The area distribution centers (the mail factories that send the trucks out to the local offices) operate pretty much around the clock and over weekends. It's not at all uncommon, if you are within 50 miles or so of them, to get a call (again -- that phone number on the label) On a Sunday from that facility to let you know where they are and offer the opportunity to pick your birds up a day earlier than waiting for them to be delivered on a Monday.
They handle so much mail that nearly everyone has some kind of horror story to tell about their mail at one time or another, so they've become something of a whipping boy. But there is a culture in the postal service of taking care of live poultry and bees.
