Quote from Forum Archives on August 2, 2001, 6:27 pm

Posted by: HeisLORD <HeisLORD@...>

have you all heard this???
this letter came from murray mcmurray hatchery... see link at bottom.... btw - i've heard this will affect the shipping of honeybees as well.... not good! 🙁
seems to me it needs to be passed along asap to as many people who care as possible...
only by His grace - rachel

WE NEED YOUR HELP!

The United States Post Office is the only service in
the United States, which will carry day old poultry.
UPS, Federal Express, Airborne Express, and every
other carrier in the US will not carry poultry. As all
of you who have bought live day-old poultry from us
know, we ship your order for baby chicks, ducklings,
goslings, etc. to you via the airlines. We are able to
do this because all airlines have a very lucrative
contract with the United States Post Office to carry
mail. Murray McMurray Hatchery is located a short
distance from Minneapolis, Minnesota which happens to
be the hub for Northwest Airlines, the airline which
carries nearly 100% of our baby chicks.

We were just notified that as of August 15, 2001
Northwest has decided to join a long list of other
airlines, which refuse to carry day-old poultry as
United States Mail. (In the past the post office has
allowed the airlines to pick and choose which type
of US Mail they wish to carry.) This decision by
Northwest Airlines will probably force the few
remaining airlines that do carry poultry to follow
suit. The end result of these actions is there will no
longer be a way to purchase poultry through the mail
because no airlines will carry your order. Unless this
can be resolved Murray McMurray Hatchery and most
other mail order hatcheries will more than likely go
out of business.

We are begging for your support and help on this
issue. Click on the link below to bring up a letter to
your congressional representatives we would very much
like to have you forward. WE MUST make them aware of
this very crucial problem. We are very worried
here at McMurray Hatchery that mail order poultry,
like so many other great things of our rich heritage,
may become a thing of the past. This issue does not
only affect hatcheries. Every feed store, 4-H Club,
poultry equipment manufacturer, pharmaceutical
company, school science project, and any other
individual or company which has a finger in raising
poultry on the small scale will be hurt.

Please lend us your assistance on this issue. Thank
you.

Murray McMurray and Mike Lubbers, Owners
Murray McMurray Hatchery, Inc.

www.mcmurrayhatchery.com/takeaction.asp

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