• @[email protected]
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    11 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.

    • @[email protected]
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      4510 days ago

      I agree with what you’re saying and also it feels worth pointing out how pervasive the rhetoric of profitability has become.

      We don’t talk about the military running at a loss, or the department of transport, or any other part of the government. We talk about their cost, because that’s really what it is. Services don’t “lose” money, they cost money.

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      810 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.

    • MrScottyTay
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      710 days ago

      Yeah but now much of the 110 million is just spam, scams and advertisements?

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      79 days ago

      This concept of ‘deficit’ is just a construct for them to make it look like waste … and then kill it.

      Do we run similar profitability metrics for the army? For transportation and infrastructure? For water filtration and waste processing? No.

      Someone decided the mail wasnt as important as a highway and set about gutting it intentionally.

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      310 days ago

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