• marsza@lemmy.cafe
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    2 days ago

    Hah. Sold the post office to a private company.

    Yall vote in the mail? Uhh ohhhhh

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      1 day ago

      We don’t. We do however have polling stations literally everywhere, and the longest wait I’ve ever had is 10 minutes. Usually I just stroll right in and am out of the building within a minute or 2.

      Also as someone else commented, early voting in a lot of locations around the cities.

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        20 hours ago

        I’ll never understand the idea of a specific voting day, which is why I like mail-in. How early are you allowed to vote?

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          19 hours ago

          3 weeks before, so plenty time to figure it out.

          Worth noting is that our early unions were very effective at securing workers’ rights, so people don’t have an issue with finding the time to vote in that timeframe.

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      2 days ago

      No mail-in voting in Denmark. There’s early in-person voting at city hall, and in larger cities, some other municipal locations like libraries, and in-person voting on election day at schools or sports halls

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    2 days ago

    In 2024, a new law opened up the postal market to private competition and took away its exemption from the country’s 25% rate of VAT, so the price of a PostNord stamp jumped to 29 Danish krone ($4.55; £3.35) per letter.

    “That made [volumes] drop even further faster,”

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      2 days ago

      They’ve been privatizing the post in my country too. Competition sprung up and they only want to do the most profitable tasks of course, like package delivery and newspapers. The postal service is of course still stuck with letters. But they seem to have an advantage with package returns with their offices everywhere.