▲ 128 ▼ Denmark becomes first country in world to end letter delivery (www.abc.net.au) submitted 10 months ago by Deceptichum to c/world 58 comments fedilink hide all child comments After 401 years, the Danish postal service has ended letter deliveries as the country fully embraces the digital age.
[+] data_science_rocks@scribe.disroot.org 5 points 10 months ago (3 children) [removed by mod] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children) I am American, and not the previous commenter, but a quick Google and Wikipedia search seems to indicate that Germany, Denmark, The UK, Malta, Sweden, Norway, and Finland have all privatized their mail services. The reddit posts from years ago about it seem to indicate that most of the people who remember the state owned service preferred the state owned post to private post services. So not all of Europe, but a decent amount of Western Europe seems to have privatized their post. I didn't see anything about Spain, Portugal, Greece or Italy, but as I said it was a quick glance around. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 child) According to Wikipedia the shared Swedish/Danish postal service is shared 60%/40% by the Swedish and Danish governments respectively, so im not sure how privatised it is really if it's completely owned by government. "The owners of PostNord Group are the state of Sweden (60 percent) and the Ministry of Transport of Denmark (40 percent)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostNord permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* Fair enough, I was extrapolating from a comment from a Finn who indicated that they privatized their post and handed it over to PostNord permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children) I am American, and not the previous commenter, but a quick Google and Wikipedia search seems to indicate that Germany, Denmark, The UK, Malta, Sweden, Norway, and Finland have all privatized their mail services. The reddit posts from years ago about it seem to indicate that most of the people who remember the state owned service preferred the state owned post to private post services. So not all of Europe, but a decent amount of Western Europe seems to have privatized their post. I didn't see anything about Spain, Portugal, Greece or Italy, but as I said it was a quick glance around. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 child) According to Wikipedia the shared Swedish/Danish postal service is shared 60%/40% by the Swedish and Danish governments respectively, so im not sure how privatised it is really if it's completely owned by government. "The owners of PostNord Group are the state of Sweden (60 percent) and the Ministry of Transport of Denmark (40 percent)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostNord permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* Fair enough, I was extrapolating from a comment from a Finn who indicated that they privatized their post and handed it over to PostNord permalink fedilink source parent
[–] disobey2623@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago (1 child) According to Wikipedia the shared Swedish/Danish postal service is shared 60%/40% by the Swedish and Danish governments respectively, so im not sure how privatised it is really if it's completely owned by government. "The owners of PostNord Group are the state of Sweden (60 percent) and the Ministry of Transport of Denmark (40 percent)." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostNord permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* Fair enough, I was extrapolating from a comment from a Finn who indicated that they privatized their post and handed it over to PostNord permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* Fair enough, I was extrapolating from a comment from a Finn who indicated that they privatized their post and handed it over to PostNord permalink fedilink source parent