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Denmark's postal service company to end letter-carrying service after 400 years due to digitization

Physical letters have declined dramatically in volume over the last twenty five years, the company said, from almost 1.5 billion in the year 2000 to only 110 million in 2024, over a 90% decrease. 

AN UNDATED era street collection mail box from Denmark is seen in a display at the US National Postal Museum September 27, 2013, in Washington, DC.
 Former Post Office Chair Henry Staunton walks near the Houses of Parliament, on the day of Parliamentary committee session on justice and compensation for Post Office Horizon IT scandal victims, in London, Britain, February 27, 2024.

UK Post Office scandal led to 13 suspected suicides, says report setting out toll

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For the first time in Israel: The new UPS service

 Illustration of an Israeli post truck. March 6, 2023.

Israel’s postal service to be privatized, communications minister announces


Threatening letters received by three Ukrainian diplomatic missions -Interfax

Following a blast at the Ukrainian embassy in Madrid, other embassies worldwide have been receiving questionable mail.

 Suspected explosive device hidden in envelope mailed to the US Embassy in Madrid

Ukraine postal service issues 'Russian warship, f***k you!' stamp

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky posed with a stamp book of the new stamps, which he said "became a symbol of the steadfastness of Ukrainian defenders."

 Snake Island (illustrative).

DHL Israel opens largest, most advanced sorting center in Middle East

The new facility cost around $50 million, the company's largest investment in Israel so far.

A general view shows the DHL robotic package processing site, which the company claims is the largest and most advanced of its kind in the Middle East, in Lod, Israel, January 11, 2022.

'Serial returners': How COVID and free shipping made over-buying the new norm

The extra load is causing friction for shippers, many of which were already struggling with staffing shortages amid the pandemic.

 Worker Ophelia Rauch, left, scans an Amazon labeled box as a customer packs an outgoing package at Sip and Ship in Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022.

Israel’s postal service is going private

Relinquishing control over the Israeli Postal Company will save the government hundreds of millions of shekels.

 Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman (L) is seen with Communications Minister Yoaz Hendel. The two have agreed upon a format to privatize the Israeli Post Company.

Trump requests mail-in ballot to vote in Palm Beach Municipal election

The report claimed that Trump had requested an absentee mail-in ballot nearly a week after the deadline to receive one in the mail, meaning either he or a designee must pick it up in person.

PRO-TRUMP demonstrators display signs of support as the presidential motorcade drives to Palm Beach International Airport, in Florida on January 5.

Woman hospitalized after Israel Post delivers letter in under a month

Purim parody: It was the most exciting event to occur in Modi’in in over five years.

A woman stands at the counter inside a Israel Post office in Jerusalem

Impact of coronavirus on elections: Still no absentee balloting

“Any dramatic change would have to pass in the current Knesset, and that is not going to happen.”

An individual practices voting in a Magen David Adom "coronavirus polling station"

USPS boosts extra trips, returns 137 mail processing machines to service

On Thursday, USPS said it had delivered more than 100 million blank or completed ballots since early September.

US election mail-in voting ballot (illustrative)

Penn. Supreme Court: signatures don't have to match for vote to count

The Trump campaign had challenged an apparent loophole in the law.

Mail-in ballots are processed and counted for the upcoming presidential election in Denver, Colorado, U.S., October 22, 2020.