Denmark Ending Letter Deliveries Is a Sign of the Digital Times

In a way it makes sense. My US mail is mostly junk - coupon brochures, scams (like extended warranty scams disguised to look legitimate), and bills or noticed that are legally required to be physical. I do enjoy greeting cards from friends or family but that type of thoughtful communication is rare these days and mostly replaced by casual digital stuff. Still, having the ability to send things to other people feels like an important government funded service.

Bear in mind that in Denmark, all government mail goes through Digital Post.[1] Once you remove government letters and bills (as that's also digitised unless you really feel like paying extra to do it the old-fashioned way) from your postal system, there's not a whole lot left for the postal system to survive on other than packages and physical spam mail. Letters become a very low priority, since it's not like there's a tremendous amount of business correspondence or personal letters and postcards propping up the system either.

I'd imagine any other country where even the government isn't going/obligated to send you physical mail will eventually go down the same path. No point in propping up the system if even the government doesn't have a central use of it.

[1] https://lifeindenmark.borger.dk/apps-and-digital-services/Di...