This is sickening

[nmgaucho]

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[DonaldsRump]

1. Oh, lord, this is all so horrible

I didn't even think about animals etc.

Remember that Saturday at 11am (local time) are nationwide protests at Post Offices throughout the US!

[The_Counsel]

2. Wait, Hold On...!?!?

Who sends live baby chicks through the mail??!??

[MrsCoffee]

3. Farmers.

[EleanorR]

4. USPS has been handling these shipments without issue for 100 years

The Postal Service is the only entity that ships live chicks and other small animals and has done so since 1918, according to the service’s website.

“Rural Americans, including agricultural producers, disproportionately rely on USPS for their livelihoods, and it is essential that they receive reliable service,” Pingree said.

https://time.com/5882032/dead-chicks-maine-usps-mail-delays/

[dalton99a]

6. Exactly.

[The_Counsel]

14. Oh...Okay...That's a New One to Me

I’d be afraid to mail anything live that isn’t a plant or bait. Unless I was FedExing it or something.

Thanks for the education.

[Caliman73]

20. FedEX can't and won't.

None of the parcel services ship animals at all.

There has been NOTHING wrong with the USPS shipping animals and other sensitive merchandise until Republicans decided they wanted to destroy, chop up, and make profit off of the vast infrastructure of the Post Office.

Despite anecdotal problems and perception of the USPS as a "bad agency" it has the highest public approval of any government agency.

FedEx and UPS are better at marketing themselves than USPS and they carry such fewer volume than USPS that they can focus on speed of delivery of parcels.

[csziggy]

28. Actually FedEx does ship horses

But that is not the same as shipping chicks to farmers.

[The_Counsel]

31. I Just Wouldn't Have Thought to Send Live Animals Through the Mail, That's All.

But that’s just me. Nothing against the USPS.

In fact, I actually wouldn’t have looked at USPS as a “government agency” before, maybe, ten or so years ago. I don’t think I’m alone in that thinking, and suspect that’s a big reason its approval rating is so high. As government agencies go, USPS is super-efficient—especially when it’s NOT run by a political hack...

[Dios Mio]

5. Check out John Oliver

from a while back. His main story was about the USPS and he explained the baby chick story.

[kozar]

8. My dad retired from PO

so did Mrs K... chickens through mail is a norm, for decades.
Koz

[progressoid]

27. Bees too.

Queens.

[central scrutinizer]

36. I worked at the post office in 1967 in Nebraska

Some days the package room was full of boxes of baby chickens. Cheep, cheep, cheep...

(When the new Playboy came out, all sorting stopped as the clerks headed to the restrooms)

[UpInArms]

37. This where I have ordered mine

https://welphatchery.com/poultry/

Thankfully, mine all arrived alive in July.

[Dios Mio]

7. It truly is. Poor little chicks died a horrible death.

[Miigwech]

9. Send de joy to personally clean it up.

[Martin Eden]

25. Dump the dead chicks and rotting food at Dejoy's front door

Bring it home to home to him.

[Miigwech]

26. Special delivery. I'll chip in to help pay for it!

[DENVERPOPS]

32. Or make the corpses into

chicken nuggets, complete with feet and feathers, and send them to the white house.......

[Miigwech]

33. Don't forget the heads. trump can make finger puppets out of them.

[Traildogbob]

10. Also sickening....

Watching the senate hearings. The GOP kissing DeJoy’s ass and his lying more than a week of trump’s daily carnival shows in each questioning segment.

[Evolve Dammit]

11. I can't watch the Repugs. Sickening lick spittle enablers. Such willfull covering up.

[Traildogbob]

12. I don't.

I switch back to Stephanie Miller each time repiggy, comes up. Makes me sick to see their face, Rand Paul, Rick Scott, a scamming thief questioning DeJoy. Are you fucking serious? And Ron’s Johnson leading the show.

[Evolve Dammit]

18. Ugh. Glad I am not watching; thanks for the warning

[LiberalArkie]

13. DeJoy said in testimony that the letter sorting machines were being removed to make room for

package sorting machines. This looks to be caused by the refusal of USPS to allow overtime to sort packages and maybe a slow down of USPS employees sorting packages. Plus we know that Trump wants to hurt Bezos. Seems to be the perfect storm.

[sarge43]

15. Trump Inc: Wherever they go, they bring pain, chaos and death.

I wish I believed in a hell.

[iluvtennis]

16. And yet DeJoy sits on TV right now in testimony to the Senate lying his ass off about how changes

he's made have unaffected post office operations and deliveries.

[Larissa]

17. Nationwide Demonstrations Planned

Demonstrations planned nationwide to save the post office.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/17/its-going-take-everyone-demonstrations-planned-nationwide-save-post-office-trump

[crickets]

30. Thanks for reminding people! nt

[LAS14]

19. Wo! I guess now I know where the mic I ordered in June is. Amazon says they're sorry...

... it's taking so long.

[pandr32]

21. This is a health hazard in the making

All those rats, rotting food, dead animals are not meant to be in the middle of a business place full of workers. What of the postal vans that make deliveries? I can't even imagine.
The health department should be called.

[safeinOhio]

22. Even under Mussolini

the trains and mail were on time.

[Louis1895]

23. Chicks shipped by mail are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars

Chicks shipped by mail are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars

Last week Pauline Henderson was shocked when she picked up a shipment of what was supposed to be 800 live chicks from her post office in New Sharon.

Henderson, who owns and operates Pine Tree Poultry, a family farm and chicken meat processing facility that specializes in chicken pot pies, said all 800 chicks sent from a hatchery in Pennsylvania were dead.

“We’ve never had a problem like this before,” said Henderson, who has been running her farm for five years and regularly receives shipments of live birds.

“Usually they arrive every three weeks like clockwork,” she said Wednesday. “And out of 100 birds you may have one or two that die in shipping.”

[llmart]

29. Well, maybe those farmers in Maine...

need to stop voting for "Concerned Susan" who has enabled Trump and his criminal cronies to ruin our country.

[Larissa]

24. NYT: For the chronically ill, mail-order medicines arrive dangerously late

U.S. Mail Delays Slow Delivery of Medicines

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/health/Covid-us-mail-prescription-drugs.html

[bobbieinok]

34. Trump is an unbelieveably EVIL, EVIL man!!

This info should be blazened across US cable and network tv channels every hour!! Front page disaster font on WaPo, NYT, LA times--all newspapers!!

Rotted carcasses should be dumped on every GOP senator's and Rep's home and office!!

Something special for Trump properties---esp Mar-a-Largo---,Turtle, Barr, Mnunchin, rest of cabinet!!

[Larissa]

35. No love lost for Susan Collins in Maine

Maine Beacon: Maine letter carriers say Collins paved the way for Trump attack on Postal Service

https://mainebeacon.com/maine-letter-carriers-say-collins-paved-the-way-for-trumps-attack-on-postal-service/