end of public mail delivery

Alert! For the first time, since January 1, 2026, a country's public service, PostNord in Denmark, is discontinuing mail delivery. If other nations follow suit, it will spell the end of mail art sent through the public system.

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Permalink Reply by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) 11 hours ago

There has been a huge decrease in mail delivery here in Greece, and some 40 post offices have closed in November, so soon we shall have no postal services, I imagine. I am upset and yet I ponder:

With all our bills for utilities and bank statements arriving electronically online, and we send payments online, our holiday and birthday greetings online, and many online "email art" places, too...why have pen, paper, envelopes, postage stamps and a land postal system?

Why keep a horse and buggy when you have an automobile? 'Just pondering the situation...

Here is an "ancient Greek yellow graffiti-ed postal box" next to a ancient Greek marble road marker stele:

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