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Nostalgia in Denmark as main postal carrier ends letter delivery
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Many Danes were shaken when PostNord began taking down the bright red mailboxes in June.
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Amelia Nierenberg and Maya Tekeli
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Mr Andreas Birch’s very first job as a young boy was sticking postage stamps on envelopes. Week after week, he helped his father, the veterinarian in a rural village in central Denmark, mail bills to clients.
The post office where his father used to drop off bags full of letters is now a kindergarten. And, like many Danes, Mr Birch, now 31, has not licked a stamp in years.
