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The cost of avoiding a CAPTCHA in Belgium: €2.66 (cost of EU postage) (fedia.io)
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In 2016 it was €6.50 for 5 EU stamps. I thought that was extortionate then, as US stamps were 47¢ for a letter that has roughly the same range.

5 EU stamps in Belgium are now €13.30. WTF. So not counting printing costs (which have doubled over the past year) the cost of sending a letter from Belgium with EU reach is €2.66. Compare that to today’s price for a US stamp: 68¢.

Even a global stamp in the US with worldwide reach is $1.65. So it costs about ½ as much to send a letter from the US to Netherlands than from Belgium to Netherlands.

Environmentalists are probably happy with that but privacy advocates who reject Google’s chokehold on email, CAPTCHAs, and other enshitification are getting bent over.

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