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Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery
(www.abc.net.au)
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FYI, this is very similar to what is going on in Canada right now: the post is a crown corporation, meaning it's a federal entity funded by the public through taxes and the carrier fees. Package delivery is their highest volume, but they have an exclusive right to letter mail. The government was debating axing the service, but the postal union pushed back hard with month long strikes.
The argument for axing the service has two flaws:
corporations will fill in the gap: they will not. They will take over the service and monopolize it (or collude). And when it's a necessity that people have to rely on, they will jack up prices and ask for government subsidy to keep it going. Basically all that was created was a middleman taking their cut...
the service has to be profitable: it doesn't. Government services don't have to be profitable. Sure, it's nice when they are, but that's not the point of a service and the government can balance budget elsewhere, like selling energy for example. It's infrastructure, not a business venture.
So yes, as the lady said, the world is watching for sure.
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.
THAT you're right about, at least.
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.
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?