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Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 2 days ago by Powderhorn@beehaw.org to c/news@beehaw.org

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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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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago (4 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?

[–] chamomile@furry.engineer 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I thought most of that was automated though. I mean it seemed like a pretty solved solution. I wonder if they could just standardize more on what envelope size is allowed or such to just simply it.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 2 days ago

There is only one reason they do this and it has nothing to do with public utility.

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