{"id":284365,"date":"2025-06-09T21:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T21:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/animal\/most-americans-dont-want-day-old-chicks-shipped-by-mail\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T21:14:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T21:14:01","slug":"most-americans-dont-want-day-old-chicks-shipped-by-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=284365","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans don\u2019t want day-old chicks shipped by mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/10\/15\/nx-s1-5108678\/farmers-blame-delays-by-u-s-postal-service-for-birds-dying-during-shipments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farmers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsbtv.com\/news\/local\/clayton-county\/feed-store-says-usps-has-delivered-hundreds-dead-baby-chickens-since-sorting-center-opened\/RUQATLCS5ZBQNNX2G6JS6DZIAM\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">store owners<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and other recipients of chicks sent through the mail have reported that delayed deliveries have led to more animals dying en route. Sadly, this will likely continue, with <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspsoig.gov\/reports\/audit-reports\/delivering-america-first-class-and-priority-mail-service-performance-update\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USPS operations plagued by slowdowns<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Furthermore, the full scale of this problem will remain hard to determine without more transparency. Many more animals are likely dying than those reported in the media, and the USPS does not report the number of live animals it ships annually or how many die within its system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Farm Sanctuary, we have seen birds suffer the impacts of live mailing. In 2013, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmsanctuary.org\/news-stories\/more-than-100-chicks-saved-after-mail-order-snafu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more than 100 birds<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were shipped from Texas to Alabama, but traveled nearly 1,000 extra miles and arrived in Washington, DC, where local animal control alerted Farm Sanctuary. Just two years later, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmsanctuary.org\/news-stories\/chick-rescue-postal-worker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">a box containing 15 chicks was about to be stamped \u201creturn to sender\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> until a postal worker heard their peeps and helped to find them a home with us.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The public, too, is put at risk by sending animals through the nation\u2019s mail. Around <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/one-health\/about\/about-zoonotic-diseases.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">three of every four emerging diseases are zoonotic in nature<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, able to transmit between animals and humans. Five years after the world faced a zoonotic COVID-19 pandemic, bird flu is proliferating in animal agriculture, and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/05\/20\/health\/livestock-disease-transport.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">transport has exacerbated its spread from farm to farm<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> across the nation. Shipping live animals via the USPS presents an unnecessary and dangerous risk to public health.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While other mail carriers ship live animals, the USPS, as a government agency, has the chance and responsibility to set the standard. I hope you will take action to prevent needless suffering and reduce the risk of spreading zoonotic disease by ending the shipping of live animals through our country\u2019s postal service.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farmers, store owners, and other recipients of chicks sent through the mail have reported that delayed deliveries have led to more animals dying en route. Sadly, this will likely continue, with USPS operations plagued by slowdowns. Furthermore, the full scale of this problem will remain hard to determine without more transparency. Many more animals are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11766],"tags":[14640,30126,114059,4629,15540,38711],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-284365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal","tag-americans","tag-chicks","tag-dayold","tag-dont","tag-mail","tag-shipped"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Most Americans don\u2019t want day-old chicks shipped by mail - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=284365\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Most Americans don\u2019t want day-old chicks shipped by mail - Som2ny Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Farmers, store owners, and other recipients of chicks sent through the mail have reported that delayed deliveries have led to more animals dying en route. 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