Venting -- Postal Service lost my chicks

[Amiloo928]

This is so sad! I hope they find your chicks safe and sound somewhere! I agree with @MROO that you should make a stink. The squeaky wheel gets the fix.

 

[MROO]

Oh no I'll be praying! I would not order chicks through whoever it was again it seems dangerous to their livlyhood

That's the other awful part about this. The hatchery didn't do anything wrong, but they'll lose business over it. Those poor babies, too!

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

OH NO

 

[Morrigan]

That tracking number is your key ... Back-tracking to the last place that checked them in and the first place that didn't should tell the service where things went wrong and who to go after. My guess is that someone claiming to be a Good Samaritan "rescued" those "poor babies" and took them home while an employee(s) looked the other way. Either that or someone seriously messed up and then conveniently lost the evidence. Either way, someone knows what happened and needs to be found out!
Be a stinker ... and raise a stink! After all, that's why they have that tracking number in the first place. It's not for figuring out when things disappear. It's for figuring out where they went, why and who is responsible when things like this go wrong!

The last entry on the tracking number shows it arriving at 7:48 a.m. on Tuesday at the Sacramento Distribution facility. Then there is no more tracking information after that. I've read the Facebook reviews for this place, and it sounds like many, many things disappear into this center never to be seen again, with zero accountability or repercussions.

The manager at the distribution center claims they were put on the truck this morning. It never got here. The Post Master says that, if this is true, the next thing that should have happened as for it to be scanned in by him (or another post office if it was misdelivered). So, it's either the distribution center's fault (lying, not tracking things correctly), or the truck drivers fault (dumping it somewhere where there is no one to scan it in). I will file a complaint when all is said and done, but it won't help the poor chicks.

I don't think it is My Pet Chickens' fault. They got the chicks all the way from Ohio to California in 12 hours, but the distribution center dropped the ball.

 

[NoFlyBackFarm]

How long hae they been gone?

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Is this distribution center near by? If it is I would pay them a personal visit.

 

[Morrigan]

They were shipped Monday afternoon. They were guaranteed to be delivered today. All the post offices are closed right now and there is no way to reach the distribution center manager (my post master made several calls today to get ahold of him, they do not have a public number). They might still be alive tomorrow, but no one has any clue where they are. It's all a game of pointing fingers elsewhere now.

 

[Morrigan]

Is this distribution center near by? If it is I would pay them a personal visit.

I was going to drive over today -- it's a two hour drive -- but I doubt that would have helped. The manager claims they are no longer there.

 

[Jules929]

@Morrigan, I am so sorry for your dilemma. I am praying for their safe arrival.

I ordered eggs from MPC last month and was a nervous wreck once they shipped. Same story, distribution center had them for 36 hours, no one would answer the phone. I finally received them, but it took showing up twice and an after hours pickup on a Saturday afternoon.
Good luck!

 

[Morrigan]

I think I'm going to try to stake out the local post office tomorrow morning, so I can talk to the delivery guy, to see if he was the same person on the route as yesterday. I'd like to see if he remember putting the chicks on the truck or delivering them.