Pantherina (he)The Free Software Foundation Europe was cancelled by their payment provider after refusing to hand over personal account data!
ImgurRefugee114Payment processors are a blight
Actually yeah. Completely useless intermediaries just leeching other peoples money.
ageedizzleOther than Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies, what’s the solution to this problem?
Letting the post office become a bank. Which is an idea that’s been floated for like a century.
What is “the post office” for Europe?
AFAIK lot of European countries have an equivalent of the USPS. Though in doing a quick search for this post I learned that Germany doesn’t have a state owned mail service anymore which is weird. Maybe it’s time for the EU to take on that role?
Yeah, most European countries don’t have a government postal service. Either it’s always been private or it was privatized decades ago. The USPS is fairly uncommon model.
🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞Wellllll, let’s make banks fulfil post office duties instead! :)
cageythreeI learned that Germany doesn’t have a state owned mail service anymore
It’s so dumb. We privatized all kinds of important infrastructure, then it became enshittified for revenue maximization and now it’s broken, shitty and expensive.
Some postal service, trains, telecommunication service, banks, airports & airlines etc have been government owned a few decades ago and worked so so much better.
Dutchy here; our national post office has been privatised decades ago (it currently goes by the name of PostNL). I believe most (western) eu countries don’t have a national postal service anymore, like there isn’t a national phone, tv or internet provider anymore.
mimavoxOur scumbag neoliberals privatized Deutsche Post in the 90s, but Deutsche Post AG is still legally obligated to provide basic mail service.