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Bosch, Zeiss, Possehl, that's off the top of my head. Not to be confused with family foundations like Aldi though TBH regarding reinvestments it's probably cheaper to pay out stipends to the founder's offspring than it is to do charity work.
Blame the Greens and their general bourgeoisness. Somehow they needed a reminder that not everyone has just money lying around to switch over. They should have factored in financing from day zero (e.g. cheap KfW credits that can be paid back with half of what you're saving in running costs), and simultaneously set up a district heating programme because in many places that's the overall cheaper option.
The Greens absolutely suck at selling their good ideas. They're like those kinds of vegans (they're not all vegan) who think that "but you'll feel good about yourself" is an argument that makes people drop everything and get on board. The Church is saying the same and they're not exactly gaining members.
Financed with oil sales and you know it. Join the EU, pay your dues, and you get to say such shit but not before. You don't even have 8m measuring tapes.
Yeah, no. The reason is that when a letter arrives in your post box it's legally assumed that you read it and administration relies on that. If you get rid of the postal office the work would shift over to bailiffs which is overall less efficient.
Increase your car taxes to our levels and then you get to say shit like that. :)
There are no letters any more. The important stuff that the government sends us we only get electronically at altinn.no (some stuff at skatteetaten.no), and reception is acknowledged that way too.
We currently have mail service every other weekday (so mon-wed-fri, tue-thu, repeat) and there's nothing really to deliver except physical spam. At this point the people who relied on paper out of habit are mostly dead of old age, and there's not a lot of public sentiment for subsidizing a handful of anti-computer cranks.
Of course it's DIE GRÜÜÜÜNEN, not, you know, the conservatives that ran the country for ages under Merkel, and the people who want to be "technologieoffen" just in case the country's horse-and-buggy industry can actually compete against a modern auto industry.
Great then I can just ignore them.
That sounds sensible. From 2025 on the postal service is free to take up to three days to deliver 95% of letters, currently it's 80% overnight, 95% the day after. Volume halved since 2000, currently about half a person receives a letter a day. Statistically speaking that is in reality it's probably less than one a month for an ordinary citizen. Like your health insurer sending you a letter making apologies for increased rates while blaming the government, that was the last one.
I don't expect any different from conservatives. From the Greens, I expect better. They can do better. They could even have won the last elections if they didn't have their head stuck up their arse. That would've been better: Actually winning elections instead of complaining about the evil conservatives. Yes, they're evil, but they're not winning because they're strong, they're winning because the Greens are being stupid.