Mail-order chicks are arriving dead, costing Maine farmers thousands of dollars

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 19, 2020

Several Maine poultry farms have received shipments of hundreds of chicks that died while being delivered by the U.S. Postal Service, either because the shipments were delayed or mishandled. “It’s one more of the consequences of this disorganization, this sort of chaos they’ve created at the post office and nobody thought through when they were thinking of slowing down the mail,” Rep. Chellie Pingree said.