Thousands and more baby chicks have died due to being sent through the mail.

A U.S. Postal worker who works at a U.S.P.S. mail facility in Kentucky said that recently 1,000 baby chickens had died in the mail. She said it was because of the extreme heat condition that they died.

These baby chickens are dying because of being sent through the mail.

Extreme weather conditions, hot or cold or wet, are killing these cute baby chicks.

This is unnecessary for baby chicks. People and farmers can purchase baby chicks in their own locale.

Please help put a stop to the senseless mailing of baby chicks. They deserve to be treated better than that.

In the news:

LOUISVILLE, KY (WDRB) -- Extreme heat might have killed 1,000 chicks that were shipped by mail from Iowa to Kentucky, a United States Postal Service spokesman confirms.

The baby chickens arrived at the main post office in Louisville Saturday afternoon, according to David Walton, a USPS spokesman.  Temperatures reached 106 degrees in Louisville, but Walton said 1,000 of the 5,000 chicks died due to extreme heat. The chicks were destined for various locations throughout Kentucky.

"The deaths were likely caused by the intense and excessive heat. It's a shame because the postal services deals with the shipment of hundreds of thousands of animals everyday," said Walton.