Three days late, the letter carrier finally walked into her salon, she told AL.com.

“Your birds arrived,” she remembered him saying.

“They’re not alive.”

This was evident from the state of the package, King told the reporter: “I was handed this box with tire tracks on it and bird carnage hanging out.”

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Before meeting disaster on the road, King said, the birds had been packaged with air holes in a federally compliant box.

In fact, the U.S. Postal Service has strict guidelines on mail-order animals — from songbirds to snakes.

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Kittens, for example, are “not mailable” under USPS Publication 52, Section 525.

Neither are “poisonous insects and all spiders, except scorpions under limited circumstances.”

Day-old chickens, on the other hand, can be mailed.

If everything goes right, anyway.

It didn’t for a farmer in Mercer, Maine, who told the Morning Sentinel in 2014 that his order of 25 baby chicks arrived late and as dead as King’s canaries.

The owner of the hatchery that mailed the chicks told the outlet that 1 or 2 percent of its shipments die in transit — up to 26,000 dead chickens a year.

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And a PETA case worker told the outlet that the group received thousands of reports of dead or suffering animals in transit.

King’s mess of songbirds seems to be a rare case, though. And the USPS tried to make amends.

The Postal Service followed up with a belated apology and offered to reimburse the stylist.

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Then, on Thursday, a USPS operations manager delivered seven replacement canaries to King’s salon, AL.com reported.

“I’m just tickled to death,” King told the website.

A USPS spokeswoman told AL.com that King let Sherry Hyche, a USPS Manager of Post Office Operations, name one of the seven birds that she’d brought to the salon.

Hyche went with Carrie Canary.

“It was a wonderful time,” King said of the special delivery.

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Although King initially ordered eight birds, only seven were delivered because, she told AL.com, the seller didn’t have more to send. The eighth replacement canary will be delivered after the next breeding season, the website reported.

“It pays for a 60-year-old woman to gripe,” King said. “I’m so thankful for everyone who helped to make this right.”

As for the fate of the original order, a faint hope still remains.

King ordered eight live canaries and received just six dead ones.