On: Mail-order chicks are arriving dead, costing Maine...

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That's an inaccurate statement. The shipment of live animals via USPS is a specific service documented in detail at https://pe.usps.com/text/pub52/pub52c5_008.htm

These include bees, day–old poultry, adult birds, and small, harmless, cold–blooded animals.