Denmark's postal service to stop delivering letters
The decision will end 400 years of the company's letter service, and postboxes will disappear from June.
I read this like "lol, thats dumb. Stupid danes". Then I realized they also use PostNord, and that we were equally dumb in getting rid of the Swedish state postal service cause now we will probably enshittify eventually as well..
I am not sure if this is the right decision, given the hybrid warfare we see from Russia.
Removing the capabilities to send information, contracts and the like by post, could backfire quite strongly if Russia manages to sabotage electronic communication in parts or even the entire country.
Meanwhile in Germany:
Fill out your application for the big central university exam, transmit it digitally to the state office, print it out, and send it mandatorily to them again physically, because greedy Bundesdruckerei lobbied to avoid generally being able to sign documents with your passport
The rest of Europe (and the world) needs to emulate Estonia.
At this point they could probably just let parcel delivery drivers take care of letters. A lot more of those on the road these days.
You still need to sort them, and PostNord delivers parcels too. Probably in the future when you want to send a letter, you need to put it inside a package so they can process it using their parcel sorting machines
I was gonna ask how they do postal voting then but the simple answer is they don’t.
Yeah, you can't send your vote by mail. Instead you can vote up to three months before election day at designated places, like municipal offices, retirement homes, libraries, prisons, and hospitals
