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.
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.
I wrote it already when the article popped up in !europe!europe@feddit.org
I think it is a strategically bad idea to remove the infrastructure for physical mail, while Russia is waging Hybrid warfare, which also targets electronic communication.
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.
This is so sad. I thought the whole paper mail infrastructure was essentially eternal due to its importance.
110 million is still A LOT of paper letters. Shame the service will be gone.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah, every public service now has to turn a profit except for highways and extra lanes
I wrote it already when the article popped up in !europe!europe@feddit.org
I think it is a strategically bad idea to remove the infrastructure for physical mail, while Russia is waging Hybrid warfare, which also targets electronic communication.
really well put and i like your quotes i mean, essesntially due to its importance , yes i cannot say it better myself
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.
Yeah but now much of the 110 million is just spam, scams and advertisements?