Nostalgia in Denmark as main postal carrier ends letter delivery

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.