Canada as well. There's been pushes to privatize the postal service so they can race to the bottom for profit.

It's very saddening that people fall for this and delude themselves into thinking companies will compete to provide a better service.

I recently got denied for a public housing program in the US.

I did not find out about this until I was at the local public assistance office for another reason, where I just randomly happened to be told that I was denied by the person who was apparently my case manager.

She said she mailed it a few days ago and was surprised I didn't get it.

2 weeks later and the actual denial letter never arrived.

...

Keep in mind, almost all government assistance programs in most of the US will correspond by you via mail only. If they email or phone call you, well you still need to show up in person or mail them for most important applications.

And... if they mail you something, they'll often give you maybe 10 days (not business days, even though everything they do takes business days) to respond and have your response be received by, or they'll permanently bar you from whatever you are applying for and file it as 'refused to provide documentation.'

So if your shit gets lost in the mail, fuck you, nobody cares!

...

I have said this in various places on lemmy at other times and people seem to think I am joking, but I am not: If anyone from a functioning country wants to do a sham marriage for tax benefits and I can immigrate there, please let me know. Living off of disability payments alone fucking sucks here.

I mean... We've always had just as much spam mail.

Where'd all the funding go previously then if it's now all used to support themselves?

Now you're just rubbing it in:

Most people might think that any e-mail provider is good enough, but a digital mailbox is a bit different from an e-mail. The Norwegian digital mailbox is tied to your identity, and much more secure than an e-mail inbox is.

https://thenorwayguide.com/digital-mailbox/

Does Norway have a digital mailbox run by the government, or just lots of private options? No, I don't want Kivra data mining all my mail... so I only have MinMyndighetsPost, but doesn't cover anything except government mail.