Shipment of thousands of chicks found abandoned in USPS truck now overwhelming an animal shelter

AP News ^ | Updated 2:01 PM CDT, May 19, 2025 | MINGSON LAU

[ClearCase_guy]

Seems like a bad situation that people managed to make worse.

[lee martell]

‘..thousands of Chicks found abandoned!”

Oh, birds, NOT girls!

[Governor Dinwiddie]

USPS? There's a Dark side to this story. A USPS Dark chocolate side.
Dig a little deeper, and you will find that the story Darkens.

[Fido969]

A lot of chicks die in the mail.

Every spring, the local PO has boxes of chirping chicks. One day I saw a live delivery box, but instead of happy chirps, the box was silent.

I asked the clerk about that, and she just drew her finger across her throat.

[dfwgator]

Money for nothing and your chicks for free.

[Leaning Right]

One way to judge people is how they treat helpless animals. The USPS obviously failed here, bigly.

[yldstrk]

A process breakdown? Obviously, the postal worker didn’t give a hoot about live birds. I hope the person gets tracked down and fired.

[Verginius Rufus]

Might be hard to count the chicks because they all look pretty much alike.

The tornadoes in Kentucky Friday night destroyed a building on a chicken farm--the next day hundreds of now-homeless chickens were to be seen.

[dfwgator]

That’s what happened on the island of Kauai. A hurricane hit the area, and to this day, there are chickens still roaming all over the island.

[Jamestown1630]

You can’t seem to avoid interjecting your obsession whenever you see a chance...

[monkeyshine]

They should open a hatchery.

[tcox4575]

In Britain, birds are girls. Funny.

[redfreedom]

Must be a very, very large truck. To help relieve the problem I’ll take all the blondes between the ages of 25 & 35.

[packrat35]

So the post office screwed up. Way back when I was younger, you could order 100 chicks by mail C.O.D. (cash on delivery).

When my Dad went to pick his up, he was offered another 100 at a discount because the person refused to pick them up.

[packrat35]

You’re kidding right...postal union will protect them even if they cared to investigate.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

"A process breakdown? Obviously, the postal worker didn’t give a hoot about live birds."

Spot on. That's it in a nutshell.

Yogi says they don't value life, animal or human.

[packrat35]

Changing the subject, but I got a good USPS story. My post office does not sell stamps, money orders and they do not take cash. Been going on now over 8 months.

I now go to the neighboring post office to mail stuff.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

If all survive...half will be destroyed because they’re male.

[Mean Daddy]

In Iowa/Nebraska, places can’t keep chicks in stock & a lot of people have resorted to mail order which significantly increases the cost.