Off-Topic – You Can Mail Live Animals via the US Post Office

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I went to calculate postage at www.usps.com when I saw this:

You can ship live animals vial the US Post office.
You can ship live animals vial the US Post office.
Here's a close up
Here’s a close up

 

Apparently, you can ship live animals via the US Post Office.  I was surprised to learn  this.  But I guess if you want your fresh organic free range chicken really, really fresh, then this is the way to do it.

The link takes you here:  http://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_002.htm which describes the policy.  Basically you can ship poultry and birds with no food or water as that damages the shipping container.  It seems the shipping is only a day or so.

Call me a city slicker but hopefully it doesn’t hurt the birds too much.

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