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Kali

(55,012 posts) Tue Feb 7, 2012, 12:48 PM Feb 2012

dammit!

I ordered some baby chicks and they are supposed to arrive at my post office tomorrow - all OK and according to plan. BUT the post office in Tucson just called and said they are there now and I could come get them if I want or wait until tomorrow as per the schedule.

I wish they wouldn't have done that. I know they are there from the tracking and I know they will be ok until they get here but having somebody call and say I could go get them is going to bug me all day. I don't have a reliable enough vehicle to go that far just for this and frankly the gas would pay for half a bag of feed. ARRGGGHHHH

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dammit! (Original Post) Kali Feb 2012 OP

they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay... Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2012 #1

My dear Kali... CaliforniaPeggy Feb 2012 #2

I so understand your frustration siligut Feb 2012 #3

the delivery date is correct Kali Feb 2012 #5

Their chirping is probably driving the postal workers nuts. UnrepentantLiberal Feb 2012 #4

hee hee Kali Feb 2012 #6

What??? HeiressofBickworth Feb 2012 #7

Relax, its SOP. Been done for years. Denninmi Feb 2012 #8

That's a relief HeiressofBickworth Feb 2012 #10

Actually, its not unusual. Denninmi Feb 2012 #11

What breed or breeds? Denninmi Feb 2012 #9

my old stand-bys barred rocks, just 15 of them - hoping at least 3 to 5 will make it to fall this ye Kali Feb 2012 #13

SQUEEEE Babies! nolabear Feb 2012 #12

I'm having some kind of problem with photobucket too Kali Feb 2012 #14

I got about three "we'll be contacting you soon" e-mails before I got a live one. pacalo Feb 2012 #15

I did send a screen shot Kali Feb 2012 #16

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

1. they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 12:55 PM

Feb 2012

they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...
they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...
they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...
they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...they will be okay...

THEY WILL BE OKAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

CaliforniaPeggy

(149,627 posts)

2. My dear Kali...

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 12:59 PM

Feb 2012

Tuesday Afternoon has it right: They will be OK...

Hopefully you can get busy with something else that will drive these thoughts out of your head...

Then the day will pass quickly!

Hang in there...

siligut

(12,272 posts)

3. I so understand your frustration

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 01:01 PM

Feb 2012

Both with inaccurate delivery dates and those sweet chicks left in a shipping box/crate overnight.

Kali

(55,012 posts)

5. the delivery date is correct

Reply to siligut (Reply #3)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 01:18 PM

Feb 2012

I wasn't expecting them until tomorrow. I knew they would be sitting in their little box for two days, I just didn't need somebody calling up to say if you want them a day early, hop into your POS truck and drive 60 miles to come get them.

Like Peggy says - I need to get busy doing something else and get my mind off it.

UnrepentantLiberal

(11,700 posts)

4. Their chirping is probably driving the postal workers nuts.

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 01:10 PM

Feb 2012

Kali

(55,012 posts)

6. hee hee

Reply to UnrepentantLiberal (Reply #4)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 01:24 PM

Feb 2012

then they should make a special run to my PO to get rid of them

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)

7. What???

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 09:26 PM

Feb 2012

Could you please enlighten this city girl --- you mean that baby chicks, actual living beings, can be sent through the post office? Who's feeding them, who's giving them water? Do we need to be concerned about PETA here?

Denninmi

(6,581 posts)

8. Relax, its SOP. Been done for years.

Reply to HeiressofBickworth (Reply #7)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 09:30 PM

Feb 2012

They don't require food or water to speak of for the first 48 hours. They are still absorbing the last of the egg yolk through the navel and umbilical cord, and that provides a built-in reserve of nutrients and fluids. Some hatcheries do now put in gel-packs of a nutrient/fluid gel for them to peck at, but not all.

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)

10. That's a relief

Reply to Denninmi (Reply #8)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 09:35 PM

Feb 2012

I had visions of the poor little things parched and starving sitting in the back of a post office somewhere. It's an unusual way to move them, but now that I think about it, I don't know of any other way. Good luck to them.

Denninmi

(6,581 posts)

11. Actually, its not unusual.

Reply to HeiressofBickworth (Reply #10)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 09:39 PM

Feb 2012

Several million are shipped every year in the US by the USPS.

Package bees are more fun than poultry. Nothing like having the post office call you at 4:30 in the morning and plead with you to come pick up your bees because they damaged the shipping cage and bees are flying loose.

Denninmi

(6,581 posts)

9. What breed or breeds?

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 09:34 PM

Feb 2012

Inquiring minds want to know?

Kali

(55,012 posts)

13. my old stand-bys barred rocks, just 15 of them - hoping at least 3 to 5 will make it to fall this ye

Reply to Denninmi (Reply #9)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 12:10 AM

Feb 2012

two years ago I ordered the same plus a box of 25 straight-run mixed banties. skunks got most of them (of course after a couple hundred dollars of feed into them)

all I have left of those are 4 majorca banties - 3 roosters and one hen, and one standard barred rock hen. plus I have some kind of all black standard hen of a a pair of them I got from a neighbor. I would prefer to get adults but they are hard to come by for any price. I have so much trouble getting them from that "teen" fully feathered stage to actually laying. coyotes, skunks or damn dogs always get them. doesn't matter what time of year I start either

the one to one rooster to hen doesn't work too well

nolabear

(41,984 posts)

12. SQUEEEE Babies!

Reply to Kali (Original post)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 09:40 PM

Feb 2012

Maybe you could get gas money by posting some baby chhick squee porn for the rest of us. Well, you could get hearts...

Kali

(55,012 posts)

14. I'm having some kind of problem with photobucket too

Reply to nolabear (Reply #12)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 12:13 AM

Feb 2012

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101849292

I will take pix but I haven't heard back from them yet. (other than the form reply that they got my message)

pacalo

(24,721 posts)

15. I got about three "we'll be contacting you soon" e-mails before I got a live one.

Reply to Kali (Reply #14)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 12:23 AM

Feb 2012

The guy told me to delete my browsing history & cookies; then, if that didn't work, to take a screenshot of the problem & send it to them. It was the screenshot that helped to solve my issue.

Kali

(55,012 posts)

16. I did send a screen shot

Reply to pacalo (Reply #15)

Wed Feb 8, 2012, 12:28 AM

Feb 2012

because I didn't have to post it there first!

well I guess I can try sending again if they don't send something by tomorrow - or I can try a different site altogether!

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