VENT! Post Office Delivery Today.

[Acre of Blessings]

I know all to well now haow you all feel. Yesterday I recieved my box of eggs that I bought from a BYC member. When they got to the P.O. the box looked pathetic. The man said "oh, it's o.k. thats no to bad". Well I wish I had opened the box there because when I got home I only got 6 out of 13 eggs in one piece.
The BYC member had packed it great, but the P.O. handled it roughly. I think the P.O. needs some BYC members as employees.

Now I only have 1 Ameracuana egg and 5 Speckled Sussex eggs left and I am praying very hard that all of them hatch.
The BYC member filed a claim and today I returned the broken eggs to the P.O. and told the same man "I wouldn't open that box", well, he did and boy was he hit in the face.

By george, that was a bit of satisfaction for me.

 

[Eggseronious]

When I am expecting eggs, I go online to https://holdmail.usps.com/duns/HoldMail.jsp in the comment box write "Expecting Hatching Egg shipment" leave your phone number and "call on arrival". This all I do they call me I go pick them up. Very simple!!

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

this is why I am concerned about my live chicks going through the PO.
I wish another delivery company would come and be alright with handling chicks again... maybe it would be something someone could start? A Nationwide live chick/animal delivery company. Something with experienced and caring delivery people.

 

[ozark hen]

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I wish it were that simple for some folks, I swear, I don't know how the system works enroute but I think they play basketball with the boxes marked fragile or hatching eggs inside. I wish all the postal workers were as considerate and caring as the ones here in Mansfield.

 

[rooster-red]

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IMO there is no excuse for not doing the job right.
If the person, be it a regular or a sub, can not do the job right they need to let someone who can do it.
This goes for all jobs, not just USPS.

 

[dacjohns]

I think it is typical of many businesses. The people handling the packages in distribution centers or unloading the trucks just don't care. If they do care then they are under a lot of pressure to get the job done in a hurry. I worked at a major store unloading the delivery trucks and the other unloaders typically didn't care. It didn't matter if the box said fragile or this side up. They got bounced, dropped, squashed, and loaded on pallets upside down. Oftern they were that way on the truck too.

Our postmistress isn't a very friendly or easy to work with person but our mail carrier is a different story. We were going to be out of town for a few weeks and the postmistress wouldn't hold our mail because it was going to be too long a time. We asked our friends to pick up our mail and when the carrier found out she started leaving our mail at the friend's house.

I don't know why there are so many differences in post offices. The farm supply store we got our chicks from gets them through the post office and the post office calls and tells them the chicks are in, come pick them up.

There is no excuse for poor service from an agency like the postal service. If someone isn't doing their job right corrective action needs to be taken.

 

[caseyst]

I have to say I'm really lucky. My rural post office is wonderful about calling me if anything odd shows up so I can come pick it up. Three weeks ago I got a call from my mailman saying.. "Um.. I have a box here that's PEEPING.. I think you have chickens!" I drove over and sure enough, my 16 babies were waiting, with my mailman peeking at them through the holes in the box, going "AWWW!"

Lucky - you decide - last Christmas Eve, 7:30pm, my mailman showed up in my yard, long after mail had been delivered and handed me a package. It had come in late in the afternoon and he was afraid it was someone's Christmas present. It *was*. You have to love little post offices sometimes.

Paulette
Cope SC

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

When I ship my eggs I dont write hatching eggs on the box, I just write FRAGILE all over the box. I find out when I write FRAGILE, HATCHING EGGS, DO NOT X-RAY it always assures the eggs to get x-rayed and tossed around. I recently had a customer ask for that on her eggs. So we will see how they turn out.

 

[farmgirlie1031]

Update on that batch of eggs. I ended up throwing them all out Some started to develop and then died but there air cells were broken so I wasn't expecting much. Some never developed at all. I am pretty ticked because I paid good money for some eggs of a breed (White Crested Black Polish Bantams) I wanted to add to my flock and got Ziltch, Zero, nothing for it They were packed well with foam and should have been ok had they not been mistreated by the PO. I put some of my own eggs in at the same time and got a 100% hatch so I know it wasn't the bator or anything like that that caused the ZERO hatch. I'm just gonna try and buy some Polish chicks or chickens later on instead of trying these again as I can only find one seller on ebay with them

 

[Aneesa's Muse]

I'm sorry about your unsuccessful hatch on those

That sucks!

I have called my local PO and asked them to hold my package ..when I knew it was hatching eggs... and the supervisor told me, "We can't do that ...otherwise, we'd have a bunch of carriers standing around with nothing to do and getting paid, regardless ..so no, we won't hold your package."

So even though the sender requested it ..and posted my telephone number on the box.. from their end, and I called and requested it from my end ....they will not do it.

I'm not a big fan of the USPS ..for this and a few other reasons...