JONESBORO, Ga. — The U.S. Postal Service has delivered hundreds of dead baby chickens to a local feed store, and it’s hurting the store owner’s pockets and her heart.
The store is now blaming the Palmetto distribution center.
Kathy Swint, owner of Swint’s Feed & Garden Supply Store in Jonesboro, said they’ve been receiving chicks through the mail for decades.
Swint told Channel 2’s Tyisha Fernandes that as soon as the USPS opened up the distribution center in Palmetto, their operation has been interrupted, and they’ve just been trying to keep their chicks alive.
Swint said USPS has delivered more than 500 dead chicks to her family-owned feed and supply store over the past year.
“It is very heartbreaking. It’s hard for me to pull myself out of it just because it’s happened so much this year,” Swint said.
She shared a photo of a recent shipment where nearly 100 chicks were dead on arrival.