CiaraMar 5
I’ve sent and received letters since PostNord, the Danish postal service, stopped delivering letters. The courier company’s numerical code stamped on an envelope makes me wince every time. The loss of stamps really is a loss. Those lovely miniature artworks that wandered around in our everyday world, casually celebrating literature, science, culture, space, art, nature. Gone.
Show threadCiaraMar 5

Never mind the Penny Black. There's a stamp with my library on it.

#Dokk1
#Aarhus
#Libraries

Show threadCiaraMar 5

Stamps as art were, alas, effectively gone before PostNord actually stopped delivering letters. They'd switched to plain fixed-price stamps.

This is about €25 of unused stamps. You couldn't exchange them at the post office before it shut. Now you can only get a refund if you print a special sheet from the PostNord website, attach the stamps to it and pay to send it by certified courier. In other words, they planned it to put you off seeking a refund. A cheap ending to their service, I think.

Show threadCiaraMar 5
I showed this to a currently young person the other day and it took some explaining.
Show threadAgathe bleibt daheimMar 5

@CiaraNi

In Germany this "thing" is yellow, one side "National" the other side "International". I still work with it.
And I love stamps as well! Those little very elaborate beautiful and sometimes funny pieces of art! ✉️📬

Show threadCiaraMar 5
@AgatheBleibtDaheim Oh yours is much fancier! I love the colour and the shape. I hope you keep your postal service. Everything that everybody predicted would go wrong once the national letter delivery service was outsourced to a private courier company here has gone predictably wrong.
Show threadAgathe bleibt daheimMar 5

@CiaraNi

I hope that too. I love to handwrite cards and letters abd of course I love to receive them as well!

Show threadCiaraMar 5
@AgatheBleibtDaheim Me too
Show threadLappenjammerMar 5

@CiaraNi @AgatheBleibtDaheim

I'm with you on all of this.

May I ask how you send letters in Danmark now? I habe been wondering.

Show threadCiaraMar 5
@LappenjammerDieZweite @AgatheBleibtDaheim Letter delivery has been outsourced to the DAO courier company. You buy a code online and drop the letter off in a tatty makeshift plastic box in the nearest kiosk or shop that is also a DAO package collection point. A non-digital way is promised but delayed. They deliver letters to addresses, but badly. A backlog of 16,000 letters after a few weeks. Bank cards, medical tests etc arriving too late or missing. A bag of post found in a hedge.
Show threadLappenjammerMar 5
@CiaraNi What fresh hell this is! I thought about all the things still needed to be sent by mail. Privatisation needs to stop where it concerns people's basic needs, and a reliable postal things is part of that!
Show threadCiaraMar 5
@LappenjammerDieZweite I agree wholeheartedly! It is almost but not quite comical how quickly all the predicted problems predictably became actual problems.
Show threadLappenjammerMar 5
@CiaraNi What the "naysayers" "nitpicked" or "created problems where tjhere were none". Obviously.
Show threadCiara
@LappenjammerDieZweite Exactly 🙂
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