Mailbox

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.
 A postal worker makes a delivery in London

Britain's Royal Mail begins moving some export parcels after cyber incident

 A postal worker makes a delivery in London

Royal Mail's export services disrupted after 'cyber incident'

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

Threatening letters received by three Ukrainian diplomatic missions -Interfax


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The eBay sign

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Paquets en attente à la poste

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A typical Israeli post office.

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Envelope

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Envelope