• absquatulate@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    This is so sad. I thought the whole paper mail infrastructure was essentially eternal due to its importance.

    Letter numbers have fallen since the start of the century from 1.4 billion to 110 million last year.

    110 million is still A LOT of paper letters. Shame the service will be gone.

    PostNord has weathered years of financial struggles and last year was running a deficit.

    Again, I thought this was a national strategic resource, regardless of profit. Over here in europe’s armpit the national post has been running at a loss for nigh on 40 years, and it’s still kept afloat, for better or worse.

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      26 days ago

      really well put and i like your quotes i mean, essesntially due to its importance , yes i cannot say it better myself

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      27 days ago

      It’s deemed no longer a national strategic resource since it’s now used so little, and plenty of alternatives exist. That’s why they decided to privatise it, and subsequently close it down when the privatised letter delivery was unable to turn a profit.