The Guardian reports that due to “increasing digitalization,” the Danish postal service will stop delivering letters at the end of the year. What will letter-writing Danes do? Use Dao, a delivery service that already delivers letters. More:
The Danish postal service has been responsible for delivering letters in the country since 1624. In the last 25 years, letter-sending has been in sharp decline in Denmark, with a fall of more than 90%.Let us hope that the notoriously aliterate current occupant doesn’t hear about this development and start thinking about making changes at the USPS. His secretary of “health” already wants to follow Denmark’s vaccine schedule.
But evidence suggests a resurgence in letter-writing among younger people could be under way.
Dao said its research had found 18- to 34-year-olds send two to three times as many letters as other age groups, citing the trend researcher Mads Arlien-Søborg, who puts the rise down to young people “looking for a counterbalance to digital oversaturation.” Letter-writing, he said, had become a “conscious choice.”
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