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Wombat

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: SW Cheshire

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 7:17 am Post subject: Posting live chicks/ducklings
Anyone any experience of sending live chicks/ducklings in the post or via courier, please Recomendations of companies, packaging, costs, etc. all gratefully appreciated Thanks in advance, Wombat

alison
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 10:32 am Post subject:
I would think it is best to ring up the courier and find out their expectations of packaging. I expect they have some sort of regulations.

Bugs

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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 10:40 am Post subject:
You could ring the Wernlas collection, and ask who does their deliveries, they might tell you - I think they have a specialised courier who just does that, so he/they have a customised vehicle. But then, that's probably picking up from one place and delivering to lots, which is probably not economical for small numbers.

judith

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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 11:00 am Post subject:
I don't think you can send them by post any more.

Treacodactyl
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 11:05 am Post subject:
As the post office have just lost a recorded letter before it was posted I wouldn't trust them with anything even slightly valuable.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 12:10 pm Post subject:
Maybe I'm being ignorant, but isn't the very idea of mailing chickens plain wrong? Transport, for sure, with a dedicated courier, I don't have too much of an issue with, but I have visions of tiny yellow chicks in brown paper wrapped packages being hurled about by FedEx guys.

sean
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 12:26 pm Post subject:
I'd sort of assumed that Wombat meant using the Post Office to deliver them, rather than stuffing them into jiffy bags. They do those sturdy cardboard boxes though, you could poke airholes in one and put a very stern message on it saying: This way up, don't shake or squash.

Wombat

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: SW Cheshire

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 12:43 pm Post subject:
Thanks for ideas................and no, I wasn't thinking of wrapping in brown paper and putting through the franking machine Wombat

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
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Location: Hereford

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 12:45 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

I'd sort of assumed that Wombat meant using the Post Office to deliver them, rather than stuffing them into jiffy bags.

They do those sturdy cardboard boxes though, you could poke airholes in one and put a very stern message on it saying: This way up, don't shake or squash.

But the surest way of having a parcel damaged is put FRAGILE on it in big red letters. And when it's in a sack in the back of a van...

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
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Location: South Kent

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 12:49 pm Post subject:
Don't think the Post is the way to go. I believe they don't have specialised "delicates" handling possibilities. Amtrak used to. They transported racing pigeons, and so were able to help out with transporting oiled seabirds to a recuperation facility before release. Every single seabird arrived in good order. But checking with commercial suppliers for who they use might be the best bet...

Wombat

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Location: SW Cheshire

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 12:58 pm Post subject:
Yep, have just emailed a few companies that supply & ship Pheasant Poults, etc. Will let everyone know as may be useful. Yes, Nick, FRAGILE would mean certain death Wombat

Jb

Joined: 08 Jun 2005
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Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 1:07 pm Post subject:

dougal wrote:

Amtrak used to. They transported racing pigeons...

Isn't that cheating?

dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Mon Jun 13, 05 1:26 pm Post subject:

JB wrote:

dougal wrote:

They transported racing pigeons...

Isn't that cheating?

Technically, it might be - but only on the way home!

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