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That’s a great idea if you’re hiring locally but we do hire international remote and I suspect no one will snail-mail me an application from the Americas or South Africa to Germany.

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Perhaps they could fax it

But that would filter for German applicants. Who else would have a fax?

No idea, though it's interesting that it may yet outlive posting a letter from their Danish neighbors.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8jllq283o

Japan as far as I know - old allies and such ;)

That is good to remember - I'll keep that in mind if I ever want to hire in [Germany, Japan] without spelling this out for some reason.

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