USPS delays creating chaos for chicken farmers & rural america

[Will Hunting]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/us/postal-service-mail-rural.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Highlights:


Rhiannon Hampson thought she would hear a cacophony of cheeping when she went to her post office in coastal Maine to fetch a delivery of newly hatched chicks. But the cardboard boxes addressed to her poultry farm were silent.

“We could hear a few, very faint peeps,” Ms. Hampson said. “Out of 500, there were maybe 25 alive. They were staggering. It was terrible.”


Some chicks are getting lost in postal warehouses or spending days on trucks, farmers said. Others are getting smothered or crushed in the deluge of boxes created by America’s coronavirus-induced online ordering. One hatchery in Pennsylvania lost 3,000 chicks in a recent shipment.


Senator Jon Tester, a Democrat in rural Montana, has received 4,800 calls about the Postal Service since the pandemic began. One of the complaints was from a neighbor in the 600-person town of Big Sandy who ran out of medication while waiting for a refill to come in the mail. (Mr. Tester’s Republican counterpart in Montana, Senator Steve Daines, also objected to the postmaster’s new policies but did not respond to an interview request.)

:lmao couldn't be more true now than ever before:

https://i.redd.it/c06kz8z9ajfy.jpg

[Winehole23]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/us/postal-service-mail-rural.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepag (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/us/postal-service-mail-rural.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage)The USPS has been doing this since 1918. Crazy to think it has been efficient and normal to ship live chicks through the mail until like, one month ago.

[boutons_deux]

4500 dead chicks in Maine, whose Senator pushed the PAEA act in 2006 to cripple the USPS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Accountability_and_Enhancement_Act

[Will Hunting]

4500 dead chicks in Maine, whose Senator pushed the PAEA act in 2006 to cripple the USPS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Accountability_and_Enhancement_Act
I went to school with a political consultant who's done some work on Gideon's campaign and he said to me recently that Collins is toast and the polling is making it look closer than it is. I'm sure he's biased but I think this might be the nail in her coffin.

[Trainwreck2100]

I went to school with a political consultant who's done some work on Gideon's campaign and he said to me recently that Collins is toast and the polling is making it look closer than it is. I'm sure he's biased but I think this might be the nail in her coffin.

The fine people of Maine will probably vote against their interests though.

[Thanos]

Yeah but it doesn’t affect CosmicCowboy in any way, so fuck it.

[Will Hunting]

The fine people of Maine will probably vote against their interests though.
All Maine has to do is vote along party lines and she loses by 7-10% (Trump's approval in Maine is around -20%). Susan Collins has been popular in the past due to moderate Democrats in Portland/Augusta liking her as someone who "reaches across the aisle". If the incumbent were anyone else, she'd probably be up 10+ points.

The general feeling among Maine Democrats is that her criticisms of Trump are shallow and insincere (i.e., she voted against repealing Obamacare, but then she voted for the budget reconciliation that modified the individual mandate to create a new argument conservatives could use to say Obamacare should be struck down as unconstitutional). They sarcastic phrase "Susan Collins is concerned" has apparently caught on like wildfire in Southern Maine.

[Spurminator]

They'll just blame the USPS for being inefficient and socialist.

[SnakeBoy]

Baby chicks died in the mail cuz Trump :lol

[Will Hunting]

Baby chicks died in the mail cuz Trump :lol
Why do you think that after 100 years of the USPS being a reliable and safe way to transport baby chickens, tens of thousands of them are suddenly dying in the mail due to delays after Trump's appointee made sweeping changes to the USPS? Be specific.

[baseline bum]

Baby chicks died in the mail cuz Trump :lol

Also people not getting their medication in the mail cuz Trump.

[Thanos]

Baby chicks died in the mail cuz Trump :lol
It’s just all about lulz for you!

[ChumpDumper]

Baby chicks died in the mail cuz Trump :lolWhat's funny about that?

Be honest.

[SnakeBoy]

Why do you think that after 100 years of the USPS being a reliable and safe way to transport baby chickens, tens of thousands of them are suddenly dying in the mail due to delays after Trump's appointee made sweeping changes to the USPS? Be specific.

It happens every year.

[ChumpDumper]

It happens every year.Post your proof.

Be honest.

[Will Hunting]

It happens every year.
Predictable response. No point in trying to have a good faith discussion about this when you’re just trying to trigger da libs.

[SpursforSix]

Anecdotally, the post office where I live has gotten worse over the last few years. Very common to have to pick up my mail from a neighbor.
But more frustrating is that sometimes, they don't even make a mail run for a particular day. Which is fine if everyone knows in advance but it come out of nowhere. And no one can seem to explain it to me which days they are and aren't working.

[SnakeBoy]

Post your proof.

Be honest.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJdmQqUAzf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBc9mQXGj7A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC8gQkR-4c0

Hundreds more examples for those of you who just found out baby chicks were shipped in the mail :lol

Muh Russia
Muh Mailman
Muh Baby chicks

[ChumpDumper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJdmQqUAzf4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBc9mQXGj7A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC8gQkR-4c0

Hundreds more examples for those of you who just found out baby chicks were shipped in the mail :lol

Muh Russia
Muh Mailman
Muh Baby chicksAll in the past year?

:lol that honestly doesn't help your argument.

But you had to get your condescension on. :lol So insecure....

Now get to Googling some more.

Honestly.

[Will Hunting]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJdmQqUAzf4
Post date: Aug. 2, 2019



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBc9mQXGj7A
Post date: Oct. 23, 2019
Quote from the video: "Tina said she's never had any problem with chicks being shipped before"



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC8gQkR-4c0
This is literally a video of someone getting a shipment of chicks and showing that they're all alive :lmao


Hundreds more examples for those of you
No, there's not, you posted 3 youtube videos (1 of which was a video showing chickens that didn't die :lol), and all 3 of them were from 2019. Just because you glibly mention that there's "hundreds more examples" doesn't make it true.

Your original claim was that "It happens every year" and you could only find a few anecdotal examples from 2019. That's not every year, that's last year.

[Will Hunting]

All in the past year?

:lol that honestly doesn't help your argument.

But you had to get your condescension on. :lol So insecure....

Now get to Googling some more.

Honestly.
The last video is a guy showing he got a shipment of chicks and none of them died :lmao

[ChumpDumper]

The last video is a guy showing he got a shipment of chicks and none of them died :lmaoThat one came form Honest Broker Farms.

[leemajors]

Anecdotally, the post office where I live has gotten worse over the last few years. Very common to have to pick up my mail from a neighbor.
But more frustrating is that sometimes, they don't even make a mail run for a particular day. Which is fine if everyone knows in advance but it come out of nowhere. And no one can seem to explain it to me which days they are and aren't working.

That sucks, but in my experience during this pandemic FedEx Smartpost has been the worst - until USPS last mile, no issues shipping or receiving with USPS.

[Thanos]

Post date: Aug. 2, 2019


Post date: Oct. 23, 2019
Quote from the video: "Tina said she's never had any problem with chicks being shipped before"


This is literally a video of someone getting a shipment of chicks and showing that they're all alive :lmao


No, there's not, you posted 3 youtube videos (1 of which was a video showing chickens that didn't die :lol), and all 3 of them were from 2019. Just because you glibly mention that there's "hundreds more examples" doesn't make it true.

Your original claim was that "It happens every year" and you could only find a few anecdotal examples from 2019. That's not every year, that's last year.
Yeah but “Trump triggerd u, lulz!”

[Blake]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/us/postal-service-mail-rural.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Highlights:







:lmao couldn't be more true now than ever before:

https://i.redd.it/c06kz8z9ajfy.jpg

Bannonbuildthewallyacht.jpg

[Blake]

Yeah but it doesn’t affect CosmicCowboy in any way, so fuck it.

USPS is great in my zip code :tu

[SpursforSix]

That sucks, but in my experience during this pandemic FedEx Smartpost has been the worst - until USPS last mile, no issues shipping or receiving with USPS.

I'll add that we kind of live out in the country. So it's people driving their own vehicles and not wearing any kind of postal uniform. It seems pretty unstructured. My guess is that it's different in a bigger population area.

[SnakeBoy]

The last video is a guy showing he got a shipment of chicks and none of them died :lmao

That one is about how to avoid receiving dead chicks. It's the title of the vid.

"only order chicks when the weather is mild and on the warm side but not too hot!
Some of the big hatcheries are Mcmurray, Hoover's, Meyer, Stromberg's and Cackle hatchery. Don't buy chickens from these hatcheries unless you live close to them! If you do, the shipping might take too long and you'll have dead chicks. "

Good advice although I would have said just don't order from the big hatcheries. Half the time you don't even get what you ordered even if they are alive.

It's funny that you're arguing that baby chicks never died in the mail before Trump and you think you're winning the argument.

[ChumpDumper]

That one is about how to avoid receiving dead chicks. It's the title of the vid.

"only order chicks when the weather is mild and on the warm side but not too hot!
Some of the big hatcheries are Mcmurray, Hoover's, Meyer, Stromberg's and Cackle hatchery. Don't buy chickens from these hatcheries unless you live close to them! If you do, the shipping might take too long and you'll have dead chicks. "

Good advice although I would have said just don't order from the big hatcheries. Half the time you don't even get what you ordered even if they are alive.

It's funny that you're arguing that baby chicks never died in the mail before Trump and you think you're winning the argument.All the evidence you gave was during the Trump presidency.:lol

[Will Hunting]

That one is about how to avoid receiving dead chicks. It's the title of the vid.

"only order chicks when the weather is mild and on the warm side but not too hot!
Some of the big hatcheries are Mcmurray, Hoover's, Meyer, Stromberg's and Cackle hatchery. Don't buy chickens from these hatcheries unless you live close to them! If you do, the shipping might take too long and you'll have dead chicks. "

Good advice although I would have said just don't order from the big hatcheries. Half the time you don't even get what you ordered even if they are alive.

It's funny that you're arguing that baby chicks never died in the mail before Trump and you think you're winning the argument.
The only argument you've presented so far is "It happens all the time because I say so and you know nothing, go check out these 3 videos (but really 2) of it happening last year during Trump's presidency!"

[Winehole23]

USPS is great in my zip code :tuMine too. :tu

[SnakeBoy]

The only argument you've presented so far is "It happens all the time because I say so and you know nothing, go check out these 3 videos (but really 2) of it happening last year during Trump's presidency!"

You're winning

[Will Hunting]

You're winning
Your words.

[TimDunkem]

Garter SnakeBoy folds.

[SnakeBoy]

Garter SnakeBoy folds.

:tu for originality

[Winehole23]

^^^genial snake handler

[Thanos]

You're winning
We know he is

[Thanos]

This is why it annoys me when anybody interacts with Snakeboy like he’s somehow different from Derp or Chris (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1656). He thinks exactly like they do, but he’s too chickenshit to fully embrace it, so he does his “for teh lulz!” act to hide his own self-loathing.

Honestly it’s why I have way more respect for Chris (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1656) or Derp than Snakeboy or Karrin. Chris (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1656) is completely comfortable and unafraid of his Trumptard sensibilities, and not a big pussy who will hide it.

[Will Hunting]

This is why it annoys me when anybody interacts with Snakeboy like he’s somehow different from Derp or Chris (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1656). He thinks exactly like they do, he’s too chickenshit to fully embrace it, so he does his “for teh lulz!” act to hide his own self-loathing. Honestly it’s why I have way more respect for Chris (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1656) or Derp than Snakeboy or Karrin. Chris (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1656) is completely comfortable and unafraid of his Trumptard sensibilities, and not a big pussy who will hide it.
Chris and Ducks are the only ones who are honest about it. Derp is just as bad as Karrin/DMC at the honest broker shit. Go take a look at the last three pages of the Democratic National Convention Thread of him getting fucked in every hole as evidence of this.

[DarrinS]

This is why it annoys me when anybody interacts with Snakeboy like he’s somehow different from Derp or Chris (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1656). He thinks exactly like they do, but he’s too chickenshit to fully embrace it, so he does his “for teh lulz!” act to hide his own self-loathing.

Honestly it’s why I have way more respect for Chris (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1656) or Derp than Snakeboy or Karrin. Chris (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1656) is completely comfortable and unafraid of his Trumptard sensibilities, and not a big pussy who will hide it.


Sock puppet account is annoyed

[Thanos]

Sock puppet account is annoyed
Go have another beer and ignore your children.

[Blake]

Go have another beer and ignore your children.

The children in my zip code are a-ok :tu

[DarrinS]

The children in my zip code are a-ok :tu

No new cases in my zip code for four weeks straight. :tu

[SnakeBoy]

This is why it annoys me when anybody interacts with Snakeboy like he’s somehow different from Derp or Chris (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1656). He thinks exactly like they do, but he’s too chickenshit to fully embrace it, so he does his “for teh lulz!” act to hide his own self-loathing.

Honestly it’s why I have way more respect for Chris (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1656) or Derp than Snakeboy or Karrin. Chris (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=1656) is completely comfortable and unafraid of his Trumptard sensibilities, and not a big pussy who will hide it.

Baby chicks never died in the mail before Trump

Honestly, I don't have to do anything for teh lulz anymore. The TDS has reached the point where da libs do it to themselves.

[ChumpDumper]

h:lolnest br:lolker

[Winehole23]

Baby chicks never died in the mail before Trump

Honestly, I don't have to do anything for teh lulz anymore. The TDS has reached the point where da libs do it to themselves.You're tilting at windmills, no one made that argument.

Your inability to acknowlege that DeJoy has made the USPS noticeably worse in a very short tme is your TDS.

[DMC]

It’s just all about lulz for you!

Historically low self awareness up in here

[DMC]

You're tilting at windmills, no one made that argument.

Your inability to acknowlege that DeJoy has made the USPS noticeably worse in a very short tme is your TDS.

Because baby chickens died.

:lmao

[Winehole23]

Because baby chickens died.

:lmaoThe real problem posed to farmers who have relied on the USPS for delivery of live chicks for over a hundred years is hilarious. LOL.

You sound like someone who's not very well informed on this topic, if you think that's all there is to it, you could check out the other USPS thread for starters, if you'd like have an honest discussion about .

You don't.

[CosmicCowboy]

Yeah but it doesn’t affect CosmicCowboy in any way, so fuck it.

Yep. I use UPS and Lone Star Overnight.

[Winehole23]

https://oversight.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/Mail%20Delays.png

https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/new-postal-service-documents-show-nationwide-delays-far-worse-than-postal

[Winehole23]

(cheep)

[Trill Clinton]

That sucks, but in my experience during this pandemic FedEx Smartpost has been the worst - until USPS last mile, no issues shipping or receiving with USPS.

This.

[Winehole23]

Gym Jordan just accused Obama of gaming the USPS to win in 2012!

[Will Hunting]

Gym Jordan just accused Obama of gaming the USPS to win in 2012!
Na that wasn’t Gym Jordan, that was Palmer.

I like the part when he said “Congress never investigated it!” The Republicans controlled the house in 2011 and 2012, not sure how it’s the Dems fault for not investigating it :lol

[Will Hunting]

:lmao these questions from Cooper are unproductive but hilarious