AFAIK a lot of European countries have an equivalent of the USPS. Though in doing a quick search for this post I learned that Germany doesn’t have a state owned mail service anymore which is weird. Maybe it’s time for the EU to take on that role?

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago

Our scumbag neoliberals privatized Deutsche Post in the 90s, but Deutsche Post AG is still legally obligated to provide basic mail service.

[–] huppakee@piefed.social 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Dutchy here; our national post office has been privatised decades ago (it currently goes by the name of PostNL). I believe most (western) eu countries don't have a national postal service anymore, like there isn't a national phone, tv or internet provider anymore.

[–] mimavox@piefed.social 2 points 13 hours ago

Same here in Sweden. Our right wing governments have destroyed everything in the last 30 years.

[–] cageythree@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 day ago

I learned that Germany doesn’t have a state owned mail service anymore

It's so dumb. We privatized all kinds of important infrastructure, then it became enshittified for revenue maximization and now it's broken, shitty and expensive.

Some postal service, trains, telecommunication service, banks, airports & airlines etc have been government owned a few decades ago and worked so so much better.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, most European countries don't have a government postal service. Either it's always been private or it was privatized decades ago. The USPS is fairly uncommon model.

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Wellllll, let's make banks fulfil post office duties instead! :)