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Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery (www.abc.net.au)

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After 401 years, the Danish postal service has ended letter deliveries as the country fully embraces the digital age.

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[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The generation that cant email, text or videocall are dying out. The fact is that everyone laments this, wrings their hands, calls it an outrage and then doesnt send a letter or christmas card ever and already gets all of their bills via email. They love the idea of mail.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a really good infrastructure to have as a fallback.

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There will still be physical letter delivery, just not by the original historical mail service anymore.

[–] cassandrafatigue@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 months ago

And I'm guessing its some corpo shit, right?

[–] Rothe@piefed.social 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, it is a pretty bizarre comment section. Mostly based on complete ignorance of the situation as well.