SALEM, Ohio — The U.S. Postal Service will move just about anything: live, buzzing beehives, coconuts and potatoes with addresses scrawled right on the skin (as long as postage is affixed), even boxes of bouncing baby chicks who start life by literally flying the coop. Among the oddities in the mail stream, cardboard cartons of day‑old chicks have been a mainstay since 1918, rattling across the country in the dark, chirping their way from hatche…
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