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

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    25 days ago

    when it’s a necessity that people have to rely on

    Which snail mail letters haven’t been for decades, making your objections hypothetical at best.

    Everything that a snail mail letter can do, there’s a better and easier alternative. It’s the horse and buggy of correspondence.

    the service has to be profitable: it doesn’t. Government services don’t have to be profitable

    THAT you’re right about, at least.

    So yes, as the lady said, the world is watching for sure.

    And the reactions of those of us not stuck in the distant past range from celebration that this antediluvian system is finally considered obsolete to a complete lack of interest in whether or not something utterly superfluous that nobody has needed for decades will continue to be done.

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      25 days ago

      If they added a clause somewhere that they could spin the service up again when deemed necessary, that’d be fine.

      How will people receive their government IDs now? Or credit cards? Or postcards?