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My wife's grandfather worked for the post office in a rural area and delivered live chicks to farms. With enough postage you could mail just about anything.
You can still mail order live chicks
Not only that, USPS is the only "major" carrier who will do so.
It's funny to put major in quotes. If you look at shipping volumes then USPS is really the only major carrier. Since they have to deliver everywhere they deliver something like 120 billion things a year, where the second is like...7 billion.
Unfortunately this looks to be another area where a previously functioning service is no longer being provided at the same level of quality.
Stitched video of two small poultry producers discussing recent poor experiences with recieving chick via mail. https://youtube.com/shorts/dcGOdro04uE
and was forced do so by congress, by the gop back in the day.
Yeah they are quite hardy. Have ordered on 2 seperate occasions, all arrive healthy. When a chick is born they essentially consume the yolk which will allow them to go a couple days without needing food/water. Being a live shipment you usually pick it up at the post office, so it doesn't have to get trucked around all day. (Also meaning you can grab them as soon as they are supposed to be there and get them all settled in under a heat source and food/water quickly).
And boxes of spiders.
and crickets. although now i want to order my shitass brother surprise spiders for his birthday instead
And bees, and crickets. Different boxes tho
Ladybugs too
I read your comment before the one you replied to and my mind certainly went somewhere other then farms
While it may seem kind of weird I’ve raised about 100 chickens that came via the mail.
I haven’t lost any of these and they all lived a great life outside on the farm.
Just... just as pets?
Yes I sell eggs locally but they are mostly pets and they also are great food scrap recyclers.
I don’t have 100 now, they only naturally live 5-6 year I keep a flock of 30-40 going to get enough eggs for my family and then sell them for $5 a dozen to anyone who can pick up at my farm
Chickens are so cute and they are quite intelligent and they’re really fun to work with
You can but they may arrive slightly squishy.
The post office changed their provider for air mail a few years ago and they don’t seem to want to give priority to living things and frequently stack heavy items on top of live stock boxes…
Most farms try to source them locally now to avoid killing hundreds of chicks while in transit.
There was also a guy who mailed an entire bank to another city brick-by-brick.
Imagine having chick trafficking on your resume.
Probably better than having a hot chicks room . . . .https://www.tiktok.com/@comedycentral/video/6997059431066340614
It’s still pretty common to mail live bees (nuclear colonies).
They still do deliver chicks. It's not very expensive either.
There is like a minimum number you have to get though that might be from the companies selling them rather than the post though, so many go to local places for smaller amounts.
The post office doesnt impose a minimum number, for the record. They don’t care, but don’t like sending them at all. However, its pretty expensive, so if you aren't paying through the nose for the shipping, the seller is probably subsidizing that cost and that’s where the minimum comes from. I just ordered a trio of specialty breeds this past spring, but the place I bought from sends individual birds if you really wanna spend $70+ for one chick.