A Delaware animal shelter is working to find new homes for 8,000 surviving chicks that were left abandoned in a U.S. Postal ...

A Delaware animal shelter is trying to care for and rehome thousands of chicks that survived being left in a postal service ...

The chicks were left abandoned due to a "misdirected" shipment, according to the Delaware Department of Agriculture.

Boxes of live poultry must be "properly ... poultry can be delivered within 72 hours of hatching. Although USPS has been shipping live animals for over 100 years, some animal rights groups like ...

The caller said there was “an undeliverable box of baby birds,” The New ... so officials declined those adoptions. The USPS has been shipping chicks in the mail for more than a century ...