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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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[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 86 points 4 months ago (20 children)

Truly a bizarre and ridiculous action. Publicly owned and operated postal delivery is still very useful, especially as late stage capitalism continues getting more and more dystopic.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 26 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Europe loves to clown on the US for a lack of social services, but the postal service is where it's reversed. In almost all of Europe, postal services are provided by private companies, with no public option. I guess the US was created at just the right time to recognize the benefit of a government postal service (thanks, Ben Franklin).

[–] data_science_rocks@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)