The Post Office had a delay delivering the chicks from the hatchery. Unfortunately, there was a tornado in MI and that affected the shipping from that area. So, the chicks sat in boxes in the MN post office for three days before leaving for AK. It was frustrating to check the tracking number and see no change from Monday to Thursday.
Our local Post Office has no phone number that receives incoming calls. I drove over on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons just in case we missed a call to our house, or they used the wrong number, etc. Nope. The chicks just hadn’t been moved.
On Thursday morning, I checked the tracking number and found they were in Anchorage, AK. There was no call from the Post Office before I went to work, but Melissa was home to get the call and went to the Post Office to pick them up. The tracking number didn’t show that they had arrived in Fairbanks until Thursday evening, well after they had been picked up and brought home. It turned out that once they were en route, they made the whole trip in just one day.
This year, we are trying Big Red Broilers for meat birds. For layers, we are trying Cuckoo Marans, Pearl White Leghorns, Black Stars, and Whiting True Blue chicks. We like to have a rainbow selection of eggs for our customers. So far, though, we have never had much luck getting blue eggs. We have tried Cream Legbars and Easter Eggers, but they have never produced eggs that could be called blue, except in the most charitable of terms. The True Blues should be good layers even if the eggs are not as blue as we are hoping for. The Marans should give an attractive dark component to our egg mix.
We lost 18 of our 51 Big Red Broilers before they reached us and another arrived in a greatly weakened condition. All of the layer chicks arrived in good shape.
Is there a printable version of interaction between you folks and the Post Office which delayed the notification process?