Interesting USPS site question

[jp]

While calculating shipping for a package on the USPS website, I was surprised to run across this:


Imagine my dismay when I couldn't find the appropriate boxes to check for my package consisting of dirty socks, the severed gizzard from a Himalayan yak, and a ball of petrified ear wax. Hmm. . . ? Very curious, you would think?

Actually, I'm sending some pickups to be rewound, and I would be grateful for a checkbox for that. I should send an inquiry letter to someone.

 

[lungimsam]

I shipped two three pickups and not need to tell them since nothing hazardous,etc. , per their list.

 

[Brad Little]

Well, I wonder what they had to list for this.
https://www.history.com/news/mailing-children-post-office

 

[zulu]

Has "Day old poultry" been alive for one day, or dead for one day?
Chicks or drumsticks?

 

[fronobulax]

Has "Day old poultry" been alive for one day, or dead for one day?
Chicks or drumsticks?

Humor noted but the phrase "live animals" occurred enough that the answer is already there

 

[zulu]

Frono'd again

 

[fronobulax]

Frono'd again

Well I laughed first so...

 

[dreadnut]

Damn, I wanted to mail some 2 day old chickens...

 

[geoguy]

The answer appears to be that day-old chicks have just absorbed the last remaining nutrition from the egg yolk, and can go for three days without additional food.

So yes, live newly-hatched chicks.

Source: LTP - Let's Talk Poultry

 

[GAD]

The Truth Behind the Journey of Mail-Order Baby Chicks

It takes lots of people to get these little ones to your chicken coop.

www.countryliving.com

 

[Opsimath]

The Truth Behind the Journey of Mail-Order Baby Chicks

It takes lots of people to get these little ones to your chicken coop.

www.countryliving.com

That was an entertaining article. However, chicks are hatched, not born as said in the article. That aside, chicks and a coop as part of a proposal? Ummm, okay. Whatever floats their boat. Still, though, it made me want to order baby chucks! Maybe in the spring, something other than the Rhode Island Reds we have now. I'm surprised they didn't mention the Reds among their popular brown egg layers.

 

[Nuuska]

This reminds me of the vast categories tha customs in Finland have - they do not have mixing consoles - but - low and behold - they do have "Parts for cassette recorders that are used in aircrafts." My imagination started run wild - is there somebody in the last room of the last room downstairs who REALLY keeps an eye of this ?

 

[Default]

That was an entertaining article. However, chicks are hatched, not born as said in the article. That aside, chicks and a coop as part of a proposal? Ummm, okay. Whatever floats their boat. Still, though, it made me want to order baby chucks! Maybe in the spring, something other than the Rhode Island Reds we have now. I'm surprised they didn't mention the Reds among their popular brown egg layers.

I delivered honey bees last summer. Literally, a small crate with bees in it. Also, a box of crickets the same day.

 

[Opsimath]

I delivered honey bees last summer. Literally, a small crate with bees in it. Also, a box of crickets the same day.

I want bees! Been wanting them for years, but I read up a bit on the maintenance, diseases, etc., and I decided not to take that on right now. I still want them though.

I also want a couple of king snakes as we have been having water moccasins around the house and my understanding is king snakes will keep them away. I haven't looked into sourcing any. I guess the USPS would deliver snakes?

 

[Default]

We're actually the only delivery service that will deliver live animals. With the fellow on my route that ordered bees ordered a particular Italian variety that are very very docile and he gave me some honey they made earlier this summer.

 

[zulu]

I met a guy who had a cargo aircraft business. A good portion of their revenue was transporting live turkeys. It was interesting because there's a sort of "joke question" among student pilots: if you load 1000 pounds of live birds inside an aircraft, then they all take flight inside the airplane. Does your cargo still weigh 1000 pounds?

 

[Opsimath]

I met a guy who had a cargo aircraft business. A good portion of their revenue was transporting live turkeys. It was interesting because there's a sort of "joke question" among student pilots: if you load 1000 pounds of live birds inside an aircraft, then they all take flight inside the airplane. Does your cargo still weigh 1000 pounds?

Does it?

I heard a joke years ago about a semi driver who was overloaded. He told the driver behind him in line at the scales he was overloaded, but when it was his turn to get his truck weighed he said, "Watch this" and walked all around the trailer banging on it with a heavy metal rod. Then he pulled onto the scales, weighed, and was motioned to pull off. The driver behind him was also overloaded so before his turn he did the same, but he was determined to be overloaded and motioned to pull to the side and wait. He went up to the first driver and said, "That worked for you. Why didn't it work for me? What are you carrying?"

"Canaries."

 

[zulu]

Does it?

I've never heard a confident answer to the question. Not even from the turkey plane man.

 

[GAD]

Cargo weight in a plane is a for determining fuel consumption and balance, so the answer for pilots would be yes - it weighs the same.

From a physics standpoint it comes down to weight vs. mass. The mass stays the same while the weight (as measured by a scale) would change since scales measure the pressure exerted on the scale due to gravity.

 

[zulu]

If the weight changes - then the forces acting on the weight and balance of the aircraft would change. The aircraft being a perfect "scale" of lift, thrust, drag, weight and balance.