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Wait until you find out you can send chickens by mail

https://facts.usps.com/shipping-chicks/

Various live animals, queen bees and up to 8 attendant bees by air, but bee hives by ground only. Fair warning: the recipient of mailed bee hives may get a phone call at any time of day or night to "please come get them ASAP".

https://about.usps.com/posters/pos138/pos138__v04_revision_0... https://pe.usps.com/PUB52_Archive/NHTML/PUB52_Archive_202204...

I was just at a historical farm and they explained this to me! They said that it can often go badly though, like if there’s a storm that delayed shipments, they can all die, which is super sad

My sister worked for the post office years ago. If her office received live birds, and thought they might die (because the owner couldn't be reached to pick up or whatever), an employee could take them home and care for them.

Wait until you hear what happens to male chicks.

At least maceration is a more-or-less instantaneous death, as opposed to slowly starving in a box.

People have sent children by mail:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brief-history-chil...

...I don't think they let you do this anymore.

It sounds funny, but they didn't really "mail" them as you think of the word. Rather they traveled in the company of a trusted adult who happened to work for the post office.

How much? I need someone to tend my looms.

You'll want to save money by shopping in bulk:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_Train

My Grandparents lived in a very small farming town (pop 500) and word would get around town when chicks had arrived and she would take us down there to see them.

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