February 3, 2025
Please see the below the February 2025 FedEx Lives embargo list for live animals due to conflicts with dry ice in the Origins and/or Destinations below. As such, we will need to tender to alternate air stops in some cases and retrieve the live animals at alternate delivery points. Live animals tendered to embargoed sites, […]
December 16, 2024
We are continuing to work with USPS and our legislators on answers to our questions/challenges as we plan for our 2025 shipping season. Below is a summary of findings that were provided by our legislators that recently met with USPS leadership regarding shipping of live poultry. General USPS operates two air networks – one is […]
September 6, 2024
September 5 The Post Office has not yet determined the times that shipments must be to the airport to catch the night sort flights. However, they did indicate that FedEx will be taking USPS Express mail so if your shipments leave your local post office on the early Express Mail truck, they should make the […]
August 30, 2024
The US Postal Service (USPS) has used FedEx to carry the vast majority of lives that are flown for over twenty years. Any lives carried by FedEx are flown from the airport of origin to the FedEx facility in Memphis, Tennessee for sorting and then flown out by FedEx to the destination airport. At this […]
August 24, 2020
There has been some press recently due to some large losses that happened in Maine. We can assure you that this is an isolated incident. So far in 2020 Bird Shippers of America members have experienced outstanding shipping through USPS, including recent weeks with all of the negative press. Bird Shippers of America members will […]
March 17, 2020
February 27, 2019