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Maanee t1_jcixzam wrote
Reply to comment by DrManhattan_DDM in TIL that USPS ships day old baby chicks in the mail by shelovesbackshots
Books do get beat up but that is mostly because shippers send them as media mail, our cheapest and slowest option, while not properly packaging them (little green plastic bags are the norm). If they shipped them as live animals, they'd have to pay way more than they currently do.
Maanee t1_jcixpjt wrote
Reply to comment by gerkletoss in TIL that USPS ships day old baby chicks in the mail by shelovesbackshots
There is no distinction in how they are treated. Live animal means live animal.
Maanee t1_jcixcxc wrote
The absolute, and I mean Disney villain level worst, is when the resident doesn't give the shipper a good phone number. We had one customer do that a few years ago, we called and called and called thinking the box just wasn't set up and they would pick up the phone eventually but they never did.
They have to be held at the post office because of the instructions on the box and expectation that the customer is going to pick them up ASAP. The entire box died before the customer got there 2 days later. Just wretched people.
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!remind me 5 years
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Reply to comment by ph30nix01 in [WP] While shopping for houseplants, you stumble upon a strange-looking sapling in a corner. Its label reads: "Yggsdrasil - The World Tree". Out of curiosity, you buy it and take it home... by nepnerd
>"Okay just make sure the dogs don't pee on it and the cats don't eat it." She said as she left the room to take care of her tasks for the day. "Love you!"
"Oh and no fires by it!"
Maanee t1_jclwen9 wrote
Reply to comment by Ahelex in TIL that USPS ships day old baby chicks in the mail by shelovesbackshots
We do mail trees actually. They're mailed even worse, in open ended plastic bags.