Mailable Live Animals
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Mailable Live Animals
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#2Interesting that they have a specific carve-out for scorpions. It appears there is a good reason (making "antivenin"), but why only scorpions?
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#3Interesting that they have a specific carve-out for scorpions. It appears there is a good reason (making "antivenin"), but why only scorpions?
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#4> Other small, harmless, cold–blooded animals
Sounds like a bit like my ex wife.
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#5We've received day old chicks via USPS several times. The local post office had different procedures. Rather than trying to deliver, we were called as soon as they arrived requesting us to come and pick them up.
It's pretty neat and kind of surprising at first. Of the hundreds of birds we've received via USPS, none of them were DOA.
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#6When I worked in a USPS facility, it was always a mix of emotions when a box started chirping. On the one hand, cute baby birds! On the other hand, they’re going through an ordeal right now (they got special non-machine handling, but it still wasn’t pleasant for them to be packed into cartons) and their destination was most likely a factory farm.
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#8522.3, Packaging and Markings:
"A mailpiece marked “If Undeliverable, Abandon” may not be accepted for mailing."
In other terms, you cannot put a dead animal in a box, then give it to the UPS for them to dispose of. I wonder how many people abused this particular "loophole" before they closed it.
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#9I do not believe they would be mailed _to_ factory farms. My daughter raised ducks for 4H. We ordered them _from_ a factory farm and they arrived in 2 days (3 days from hatching). They had a stable high-water-content gel in the box for hydration, but it must have been an ordeal.
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#10When I worked in a USPS facility, it was always a mix of emotions when a box started chirping. On the one hand, cute baby birds! On the other hand, they’re going through an ordeal right now (they got special non-machine handling, but it still wasn’t pleasant for them to be packed into cartons) and their destination was most likely a factory farm.
we've mail ordered chicks many times. Pretty normal for backyard chicken wranglers. Our dozen or so birds have two acres of fenced, lush, half tree-canopied land and a barn to sleep in.