Yeah, I actually think these types of thing are a healthy thing for society.

The fact some parents were like “I can’t afford a train ticket” and some postal workers just went with it is great.

and weight is not a great way to price childcare.

I'd like to hear your solution then!

Thought this was some ICE news I hadn’t heard about.

Honestly just mailing a kid back and forth is probably cheaper than childcare.

Hearing this quirky description makes me think Picard Maneuver is shilling against mail-in voting, given the timing.

Plus, they don't stack well

You can still mail order live chicks

Imagine having chick trafficking on your resume.

There was also a guy who mailed an entire bank to another city brick-by-brick.

It’s still pretty common to mail live bees (nuclear colonies).

They still do deliver chicks. It's not very expensive either.

There is like a minimum number you have to get though that might be from the companies selling them rather than the post though, so many go to local places for smaller amounts.

Ring camera video of driver yeeting child out the door of the truck and 20 feet to the porch

DHL the kid would be delivered two counties away to the wrong address and then they would refuse to take your calls when you try to figure out where it got dropped off.

UPS the child would arrive with tire tracks on them and be thrown at the house from the road.

bUt IMagINe if ApPlE rAn THe POsT oFfIce

tryna ship more humans

DHL is part of the Deutsche Post which is the German version of the US postal service. They have however been privatized in the 90s.

The stiff ones are a lot less noisy.

It was only domestic shipping.

The US also had a history of shipping people as cargo across the ocean for profit.

Maybe

yeah they're parcel services, not mail services

You mean by definition? Because FedEx started out as an overnight alternative to US mail, to send important documents across the country for signing.

Yes it is. If i say im gonna mail you this with UPS, you know what i mean. Whats the point of this comment

Reminds me of Futurama. "You're under arrest for child cruelty, child endangerment, depriving children of food, selling children AS food, and misrepresenting the weight of livestock!"

Generally yes.

I was working at a UPS sorting facility when a box of live snakes broke open. That was a fun day

I’ve also received live worms and chickens via post

Don't order live animals via the mail. Consider all the cuts to the USPS since Trump's first term. It is simply unbelievable that shipping a live animal via USPS is considered humane. Day old chicks are shipped all the time and are considered to be in the same category as food or produce. Many have always died during shipping because the process is not designed to handle live animals, but since Trump's first term it has gotten far, far worse.

Under current policy, chicks are classified as perishable goods within the U.S. Mail system and handled in the same logistical category as items such as food or plants. This distinction matters. Because they are treated as parcels rather than live animals, they are not subject to the animal welfare standards required for other forms of live animal transport.

In fact, in 2020, in Maine alone, 4,800 baby chicks arrived dead after Trump's postal cuts kicked into high gear.

The USPS has been allowing live animals to be sent through the mail since 1918. But with the current Postal Service crisis, there has been a huge spike in the number of chicks that are dying on the journey. In recent weeks, 4,800 baby chicks that were sent through the mail arrived dead to recipients in Maine alone. In other parts of New England, several other farmers have also reported receiving hundreds of dead chicks in the mail.

Meanwhile in California, workers at a large mail-sorting facility in South Los Angeles “…fell so far behind processing packages that by early August, gnats and rodents were swarming around containers of rotted fruit and meat, and baby chicks were dead inside their boxes,” according to the Los Angeles Times. “This month, one worker said, she found a box with air holes in a pile of packages. Instead of hearing the gentle sounds of baby chicks, she heard nothing.”

If you have any compassion for living animals, do not ship them via USPS.

Less fun fact: USPS in recent years has been stacking things on the chicken boxes :(

Maybe they thought it only mattered that they weren't alive at the end of the travel. Understandable mistake.

If FedEx or UPS shipped a kid, they'd end up killing it if they treated the child like any other package they handle.

RM are apparently prepared to accept bees. So if you need to ship some bees to anyone they've got your back. So much better than a glitter bomb.

Also to fuck up the upcoming Census so they can further steal more representation they shouldn't have.