Friendly reminder that Denmark is about 44 km^2. For context, the UK is 244 km^2
Which matters a lot. Because the various postal services around the globe? Letters are petty much a side benefit. What they are really for is delivery of important packages (e.g. medicine). Particularly to rural underserviced areas. And when you have routes that head out to the boonies 3-7 times a week, carrying a sack of letters is “free”
This? I don’t know all the details and don’t have enough of a basis to gather them from a short article. But this definitely feels like it is going to be depending on third parties for package delivery and so forth… which is what certain, really fucking stupid, countries are trying to do by privatizing/defunding their postal service.
Like I said, Denmark is tiny. They will probably be fine. But this… feels like the kind of thing that will bite people in the butt a decade or so down the line.
Friendly reminder that Denmark is about 44 km^2. For context, the UK is 244 km^2
Which matters a lot. Because the various postal services around the globe? Letters are petty much a side benefit. What they are really for is delivery of important packages (e.g. medicine). Particularly to rural underserviced areas. And when you have routes that head out to the boonies 3-7 times a week, carrying a sack of letters is “free”
This? I don’t know all the details and don’t have enough of a basis to gather them from a short article. But this definitely feels like it is going to be depending on third parties for package delivery and so forth… which is what certain, really fucking stupid, countries are trying to do by privatizing/defunding their postal service.
Like I said, Denmark is tiny. They will probably be fine. But this… feels like the kind of thing that will bite people in the butt a decade or so down the line.
Your numbers are off by a factor of 1000. According to Wikipedia Denmark is 43 094 km² and UK 244 376 km² 🌸
I love living in 44 square kms with all the other Danes. We’re a tight knit people, except Troels.