Once upon a time… Not many people know that in XNUMXth century England, mail was delivered twice a day, and even on Saturdays. The need to communicate is one of the fundamental traits of Homo sapiens and, in the absence of the telephone and the Internet, we understand how dense communication via letter (which today is contemptuously called "slow mail") was.
The "slow mail" still exists, and indeed, as far as parcel post is concerned, it is probably more intense than before, given that the growing popularity of e-commerce implies delivery of purchased goods by post (at least until drones of Amazon will not let the parcels rain on the garden or on the balcony or on the windowsill of the house). But traditional letters – love or otherwise – are less frequent than before. Australia Post says it is delivering a third fewer letters than it did five years ago, and is losing money.
The remedies? There were rumors of delivery only four days a week, but now it is proposed instead to introduce three classes of mail, normal, priority and express. The regular one will take a couple of days longer than the priority one, and all of them will cost more. In fact, the price of a normal letter is A$ 70 cents (50 euro cents), one of the lowest in the world.
