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U.S. Postal Service Apologizes After Delivering Dead Birds
Rhonda King ordered six canaries as a 60th birthday present to herself. She paid $700 for the package to be delivered from Texas via USPS, but once it arrived, she realized she was being given a box full of dead birds.
King, who owns a salon in the small town of Grant, Alabama received the dead creatures while she was at work. She had expected the package two days prior to the delivery, and she definitely didn’t expect to receive a package full of bodies. She told AL.com, “When my postmaster got there he told me, ‘Well, your birds arrived, but they’re not alive.’ This happened right in front of my clients. I was handed this box with tire tracks on it and bird carnage hanging out.” Also, two of the birds were missing.
After the delivery, and after King spoke with AL.com, the postal service has issued her an apology and a reimbursement.
Interestingly, live bees, adult birds, scorpions and “other small, harmless, cold–blooded animals” can be sent through the United States Postal Service, according to their website. They must be sent in proper pre-approved cages similar to the ones seen here that, allegedly, the pet store used to ship to King. If King’s birds had been treated carefully, all would have been fine in the day it should have taken them to arrive.
