Closure of country’s 400-year-old service made headlines and prompted Gillian Taylor to appeal for final missives
Some describe the joy of receiving dispatches from far afield, others speak of the discipline of sitting down to carefully order their thoughts in a letter.
One writer tells of finding a poignant cache of letters after a parent’s death, while another has shared a map of where the post boxes used to be in her town.
A British artist has been collecting some of the last missives sent through the 400-year-old Danish postal system, which delivered its final letters on 30 December.
PostNord has cited the “increasing digitalisation” of society and has said it will continue to deliver packages, but its decision to stop delivering letters has made headlines across the world.
