USPS Implements New Handling Fees
What It Means for Your Bird Shipments
As a trusted shipper of live birds, we’re committed to ensuring that your precious cargo is handled with the utmost care during transit. Recently, USPS introduced new handling fees for shipments containing live animals, perishable food, and plants. These fees are designed to cover additional care and precautions taken during shipping to ensure safe delivery.
Here’s a breakdown of the new fees:
USPS Ground Advantage: $7.50
Priority Mail: $15.00
Priority Mail Express: $7.50
What This Means for You
This change highlights USPS’s commitment to providing safer conditions for live shipments. The fee helps cover proper ventilation, careful handling, and secure transportation for live animals like birds. For shippers like us, it ensures that your birds arrive in the best possible condition while complying with USPS's strict guidelines for live animal transport.
Our Commitment to Quality
We understand that this fee may impact shipping costs, but we’re confident that it will result in improved handling and care for your birds. We will continue to package and prepare each shipment with the same dedication to safety and well-being that you’ve come to expect from us.
If you have any questions about how these changes might affect your orders, don’t hesitate to reach out. Thank you for trusting us with your bird shipping needs!
Sugar Feather Farm
