Finally have a decent supply of both layers for the next couple of years and meat birds for the next couple of months. I’m content.
However, I want to mention USPS outright killed some 30 of my egg layers over the last month or so, due to “inclement weather”. I beg to differ. If I can drive through 6-8 inches of snowy ice covered roads in my old Toyota Tacoma, surely you can do the same.
Anyone living in the tristate area near Kentucky, Illinois, and Missouri has dealt with ineptitude of the St. Louis distribution center.
My first order (Hoovers hatchery) sat in the distro center for over 5 days before being released to my local post office some 2+ hours away. Only to be instantly rejected and sent back to the hatchery. Because they all died. When Hoovers sent me a replacement over they took three days to get to me instead of two and I lost over half the lot. Hoovers ghosted me when I asked for a refund.
Never have I dealt with such terrible service from USPs as I have in the last 6 months. USPS’s St.Louis center needs a complete overhaul. Everyone needs to go. Go look at their google reviews, I’m not the only one bitching about this.
This isn’t my only experience with delays. For example I ordered a new piston for my 9mm suppressor and it too sat up in the distribution center going back and forth between the sort center and the receiving area for an entire week.
What in the hell is going on up there? Parcel kickball? Keeping busy by just touching the mail and putting into new containers day after day? C’mon!
End rant.
by D_S_1988
10 Comments
My shipments have been messed up for the past month as well. But I’m out in California.The USPS is under attact from the trump administration and at risk of being severely affected. So good luck out there.
It’s going to go from bad to worse.
I won’t order chicks anymore. The dead or sickly ones were just too disheartening and gross. We’ve been incubating and hatching for two years now and it’s been better for me.
hoovers fucking sucks. they didnt tell me until after i received my chicks from them that they wouldn’t be vaccinated against anything, and i had a chick catch cold and arrive dying because it got stuck in the corner of the box away from the other chicks
I shipped a part for my vehicle to Georgia to be rebuilt. They sent it back via USPS. The part circled around Georgia for *months* and the rebuilding company did nothing to find it or fix the problem. My vehicle sat parked in my driveway for about six months total. I eventually ordered a new rebuilt part out of California which I received promptly (*not* by USPS), and got the one from Georgia at the same time, *of course*.
USPS was zero help because “I wasn’t the shipper” (just the receiver) so I wasn’t allowed any information. USPS on their website tracking showed it literally circling around Georgia. Then, after me calling literally hundreds of times, USPS *deleted* a bunch of the stops off the tracker (I had screenshots LOL).
Bottom line; doesn’t matter where you are, USPS sucks.
The company in Georgia sucked big time too, but they at least finally refunded all my money. Of course it cost me double for the part from California because it wasn’t my original part being rebuilt, I had to buy a complete rebuilt part.
In the last couple of years the USPS here in MN has gotten so bad I will not purchase something online that ships USPS.
i swear they are making USPS worse and worse so they can use that as an excuse to privatize it. it didn’t use to be this bad.
Part of the problem is that you mail ordered them. Next time pick them up yourself. You can’t trust the mail ordered any shipping company with live animals.
Sounds like you’ve never worked for USPS.
Sounds like shipping live birds in the mail is a bad idea. I’m sorry for your frustrations but I’m much more sorry for a bunch of chicks that died slowly of thirst, starvation or exposure.
SE Michigan and I’ve ordered from hatcheries many times without much trouble. Last year they arrived at the local office near closing time and I first got notice to pick them up, so jumped in my car, only to have USPS pull in the driveway with them since they were worried about them.
On pick up days I always wear an old t-shirt that says “how to pick up chicks” and shows a stickman picking up a box of chicks.
Sorry about your experience!