The German postal service Deutsche Post has discontinued its domestic mail flights after more than 62 years. In the early hours of Thursday, the last aircraft carrying domestic mail took off from Berlin and flew to Stuttgart. Shortly before that, planes had taken off from Hanover, Munich and Stuttgart. The six planes were carrying only letters – a total of around 1.5 million items weighing 53 tons. This corresponds to around 3% of the volume of letters transported by Deutsche Post around the country every day. In future, the postal service will no longer use letter transport aircraft in order …