Shipment of thousands of chicks found abandoned in USPS truck now overwhelming an animal shelter

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Shipment of thousands of chicks found abandoned in USPS truck now overwhelming an animal shelter

The Associated Press
May 19, 2025, 5:36 PM


Abandoned Chicks. Hundreds of chicks mill around a stall at First State Animal Center and SPCA on Friday, May 16, 2025, in Camden, Del. (AP Photo/Mingson Lab)
(AP Photo/Mingson Lab)

CAMDEN, Delaware (AP) — A Delaware animal shelter is trying to care for and rehome thousands of chicks that survived being left in a postal service truck for three days. Trapped in a warm enclosure, without food and water, thousands died before they were discovered.

Involved parties are still awaiting answers as to how 12,000 chicks were abandoned within the truck at a Delaware mail distribution center. The United States Postal Service said in an email that it was aware of a process breakdown and was actively investigating what occurred.

Pennsylvania-based Freedom Ranger Hatchery raised the chicks for their weekly distribution to clients across the country, said a spokesperson for the company. Due to biosecurity concerns, the hatchery cannot take the chicks back.

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[hlthe2b]

1. Ohhhh! How could the driver and any others aware, allow this to happen without doing anything?

Thousands of those chicks died of heat, dehydration, starvation in that truck... I just, can't...

[markie]

2. well darn...

sad it happened and I would absolutely go adopt some if I were at my place in Maryland (very close to Camden)... I am in my place in Vermont for the week and won't be back for a few days.... or maybe some will still be there

[aggiesal]

3. This is Mierda47's idea of how the USPS is supposed to work. ...

Remember, everything Mierda47 touches goes to $h1t.

[yorkster]

4. Did this happen a few other times in the last few years?

I seem to remember it. Maybe during Covid...or when the USPS was having problems during the early days of DeJoyless.

Terrible.

[Hekate]

7. Before Covid. DeJoy did it. Our central postal distribution center opened on a Monday to a stinking mess...

…of dead and dying chicks. One employee called it a scene from the apocalypse. Like the business of trashing new million-dollar sorting machines, this was DeJoy all the way.

The US Postal Service has been successfully delivering flats of live chicks for over a century. And now, in a bid to prove that nothing the federal government does can work right, right-wingers who want to privatize it all and make a profit for themselves, make sure that really is the case.

[live love laugh]

10. Chicks have been safely shipped for decades until Trump arrived.

[Evolve Dammit]

5. More suckage for our species and our "treatment" of animals...

[BurnDoubt]

6. "Heck of a job. Louie!"

[BidenRocks]

8. Magats' way to keep egg prices high

Check where they were being sent and play Seven Degrees of chump!

[rubbersole]

9. Abandoned chicks?

Don't tell Matt Gaetz.

[Nululu]

11. This happened at the port decades ago.

4-H members took in chick's abandoned at the Port. Worth a try.