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Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years (www.theguardian.com)
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The Danish postal service will deliver its last letter on 30 December, ending a more than 400-year-old tradition.

Announcing the decision earlier this year to stop delivering letters, PostNord, formed in 2009 in a merger of the Swedish and Danish postal services, said it would cut 1,500 jobs in Denmark and remove 1,500 red postboxes amid the “increasing digitalisation” of Danish society.

Describing Denmark as “one of the most digitalised countries in the world”, the company said the demand for letters had “fallen drastically” while online shopping continued to increase, prompting the decision to instead focus on parcels.

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[–] 9 points 8 months ago

I recently had problems with my government ID login that could only be resolved by sending a physical letter.

This is horrific.

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    [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    What about birthday, Christmas and Mother’s Day cards?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    They'll probably just have to be sent as a parcel in stead, using PostNord or one of the International carriers. It already costs about the same to send a parcel (up to 1 kg) as a letter, and service and shipping speed is infinitely better anyway.

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    • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    this makes no sense. you going to deliver a parcel but you can't be bothered to drop some letters at the same time?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    @HubertManne I suspect that dropping the letters at a doorstep isn't the hard part. Letters require their own sorting infrastructure which can actually be quite complex, so doing this probably lets them streamline behind the scenes.

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    • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Well that's one way to counter spam mail.

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