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goatholomew t1_jcgy33q wrote

I can't get a book delivered without USPS beating the shit out of it. This seems ill conceived.

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windsorHaze t1_jch11nu wrote

Usps treats “live animals” differently from the rest of the packages. Live animals get special labeling on transport containers, and segregated from the rest of the mail. They moved to safer & warmer locations in the warehouses between relay destinations.

Fun fact: usps is the only organization in the us allowed to ship live animals and cremated remains via package/mail.

Source: am usps employee.

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Disneyhorse t1_jci08ug wrote

My husband works for FedEx and they ship live animals. Bees, fish, lobsters, reptiles. He told me a story of one poor driver who had a box full of 100 anoles break open inside the truck.

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ArcFurnace t1_jciiclx wrote

Girls Mailmen like swarms of lizards, right?

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RoboWonder t1_jckl5ol wrote

Sir, the store is closing in two minutes.

Ok, ok, I'll take the 500 lizards. No, wait, yes. No. Yes. Yes. Yes! The parrot!

squaaaack

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TheCervus t1_jcj6mvn wrote

A zoo in Minnesota once shipped a camel to Alaska via FedEx.

My source for this info was a zoo employee. I neglected to ask him why the camel was shipped to Alaska. I presume it was being moved to another zoo.

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denisturtle t1_jcjkou2 wrote

Iirc FedEx has fancy planes for shipping horses, so one of those could easily ship a camel.

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gerkletoss t1_jch4q49 wrote

And invertebrates get labelled "harmless reptile" by sellers because employees will treat them better

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Maanee t1_jcixpjt wrote

There is no distinction in how they are treated. Live animal means live animal.

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J655321M t1_jchilcx wrote

I ship snakes through FedEx all the time.

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E0H1PPU5 t1_jch6y3c wrote

Nah. I just had 16 little peepers delivered and they were handled with the utmost care for their entire journey. They moved from Iowa to NJ in 48 hours without a single strand of fluff out of place.

The postal service workers called me as soon as they arrived at the post office and let me come pick them up before the office opened.

There wasn’t a scuff to be seen on that box.

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DrManhattan_DDM t1_jch1w2g wrote

It’s not a new thing, and it’s hardly the cruelest part of the poultry industry. Have you tried marking your book deliveries with “Caution: Live Animals”?

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Maanee t1_jcixzam wrote

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.

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Ahelex t1_jclkfy5 wrote

Maybe tell them to label it as "Caution: Live Tree"?

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Maanee t1_jclwen9 wrote

We do mail trees actually. They're mailed even worse, in open ended plastic bags.

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