This is what happens. Contractors carry pallets of chicks for the USPS since they don’t have their own aircraft. The chicks are come on flat boxes that are pallet sized, maybe ten inches high, stacked about six feet high. They are loaded into an aircraft before departure and on a hot ramp an a/c cart hose is out into the pit to keep them cool. The a/c cart breaks and my the time it’s pulled for departure, many of the chicks die from overheating. It happens every year. Thankfully it’s rare. In the winter the pallets of chicks are kept in a warm hangar until the last minute. At least by the contractors who care.
When I was into Egg Production big time, I had 50 hens producing at a time. I have received hundreds and hundreds of chicks thru the mail with only a few casualties. They even pack 52 in a crate when you’re paying for 50 because they know one, for sure, won’t make it.
This is a lot of chicken poop!
That said, it also shows us what a huge, slow, plodding MONSTER the Post Office is and that it is not lean and mean and nimble and able to handle CHANGES that inevitably happen TO ALL BUSINESSES!
Quit throwing money down a rat hole with this enterprise!
Sounds like they just need a market for the cooked chickens on arrival!