Shipping birds to Arkansas Embargo?

[sutillman]

Tried to ship a couple of birds to north Arkansas and they were returned saying there is an embargo on live birds there. Does anyone know about this?

 

[EweSheep]

Are you kidding me?

 

[sutillman]

According to the PO, it was started on 8/01/09. Can't get any info at all from any of the PO's I've called. The PO at the recieving end knows nothing about it. Is there somewhere you can go to get a list of zipcodes you can't ship to? Because the USPS doesn't seem to know about one.

 

[EweSheep]

BirdShippers of America didn't say anything about an embargo there. Not sure why. I got a roo from Arkansas and never had any problems from there.

Are the shippers on strike or did you have an NPIP papers or vet papers with this bird? Personally I never had problem shipping birds without NPIP papers to NY or any state for that matter. Maybe look up the Arkansas shippers website or FedEX problems.

 

[pips&peeps]

Call the Dept of Agriculture. Also call the post office you shipped to.

Unless it is a place like Hawaii where everything gets quarantined, I don't think they are prepared to return all live birds. The post office does not enforce agriculture laws.

 

[sutillman]

Recieved birds from there last week. We are sort of swapping birds. She had no problem shipping them out. This is my first time shipping, so I don't know what to do or who to talk to. I am shipping to Arkansas from Georgia.

 

[pips&peeps]

What post office or town was this? I am on the phone with the Dept of AG?

 

[sutillman]

This was to Hardy, AR. They said nothing to zip code starting with 725.

 

[Sir Birdaholic]

My zip is 72543 & I got my hatchery chicks 3 weeks ago. The P.O. called me to pick them up. I haven't heard anything about no shipping of birds.

 

[EweSheep]

Hope something is resolved with this matter.

Had a friend in Arkansas and she said she never heard of a thing like that. She could ship birds out from Little Rock, Arkansas with no problem.