Deutsche Post has stopped sending letters by plane within Germany. The last plane took off from Berlin shortly after midnight and flew to Stuttgart.
A total of around 1.5 million letters weighing 53 tons were on board the six machines. This corresponds to around three percent of the volume of letters that were recently transported by the post office in Germany every day. The Swiss Post will no longer use transport aircraft in order to reduce costs and CO₂ emissions. Post will still rely on airmail to some extent when writing abroad.