I'd have to give you a two-part answer to that.
First, although they say the post office itself is discontinuing letter mail, they have another organization there, called Dao, which delivers newspapers and magazines. As of January 1, 2026, they're going to pick up the letter mail. Also, it costs $6 per letter in Denmark to mail a letter. It's $1.44 in Canada.
The other key thing here—and Ian, bless his heart, has been saying for some years that we should be getting rid of letter mail altogether—is that digitization has not yet put us in a position to do that in Canada. We haven't digitized.
What do I mean by that? You get a digital passport. I still have a physical one. I used it today. How about a digital credit card? Well, I still get a physical credit card. I still get a physical driver's licence. I still get a physical health card. Denmark digitized many of those things; therefore, they were not using the mail to send them. When we had the strike back in November and December, there were all kinds of worried Canadians: “How am I going to get my passport to take my trip? What am I going to do?” Until you digitize those, we're still going to need letter mail.
To Ian's point, he's absolutely right. I call it the canary in the coal mine. If I look out 10 years from now, assuming digitization solves those things and makes them go away.... By the way, neither of us has mentioned AI. God knows what AI is going to do. I think that 10 years from now, yes, letter mail could be dead here in Canada.
