The Gateway
The Gateway
St. Louis Public Radio
Tuesday, September 3 - Deadly shipping delays
10 minutes Posted Sep 3, 2024 at 10:37 am.
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When someone wants to add chicks to their backyard farm or populate a larger operation, they often order from hatcheries. For the past 100 years, those hatcheries have used the U.S. Postal Service to ship live baby birds around the country. Increasingly, customers and suppliers say slow deliveries are causing birds to arrive dead. The Midwest Newsroom’s Kavahn Mansouri investigates.