29 Oct
2011
29 Oct
'11
7:33 p.m.
On 29 Oct 2011 at 18:51, David Griffith wrote:
Regarding shipping animals -- A few months ago I heard
a rooster
crowing from the back of the local post office. The clerks confirmed
to me that, yes, someone is shipping a live rooster.
Yup. The USPS will accept bees, chicks, scorpions, live adult
poultry, alligators, worms, fish, leeches, snails, etc.:
http://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_007.htm
There are some roadless areas of the country for whom the USPS mail
boat is pretty much the only outside contact. Mail boats are run by
contract with the USPS:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Remote-mail-run-lives-up-to-
post-office-credo-1259822.php
I believe that there's also a boat that plies the Detroit River and
services other vessels and even has its own ZIP code.
--Chuck