Denmark ends the national postal service. It is all the Trystero now...

[Mark Kohut]

I still write letters too but I send them only from Desolation Row.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2026 at 10:50 AM James Land <James.Land at colorado.edu> wrote:

> It’s funny seeing this news when I’m writing letters to friends right now.
> Seems like a fun way to communicate us youngins don’t use much. I think
> this a strange decision by the danish gov. If they’ll still deliver
> packages, I feel like you can still deliver letters, since they are
> essentially just mini packages (or packages are big letters). I also feel
> our current worldwide communication miracle being the internet is a little
> more fragile than people realize or want to accept, so it’s probably good
> to have a mail system on hand if that goes down.
>
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> *From:* Pynchon-l <pynchon-l-bounces at waste.org> on behalf of Laura Kelber
> <laurakelber at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Monday, January 5, 2026 5:51:33 AM
> *To:* Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> *Subject:* Re: Denmark ends the national postal service. It is all the
> Trystero now...
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> I'm all in favor of doing this here in the US. I generally transfer the
> bloated contents of our mailbox directly to the recycling box. But I guess
> there are still plenty of rural areas where people don't have internet
> coverage.
>
> In an age where AI has enabled unprecedented surveillance of online
> communications, and even monitoring of postal communications, I'm wondering
> how many secret Trysteros will crop up. Passing notes behind the teacher's
> back kind of thing,but with more at stake.
>
> The p-list is underpopulated these days, but at its height it would have
> been fun to try to transmit a handwritten not, or maybe a copy of COL49,
> hand to hand, from the east coast to the west coast, without use of the
> postal system.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2026, 4:29 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Instead of posting letters, Danes will now have to drop them off at
> kiosks
> > in shops, from where they will be couriered by a private company to both
> > domestic and international addresses.
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