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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Dan Milmo

No need to send it back: Netflix posts its final DVDs to customers

A DVD of True Lies in Netflix packaging
Remaining customers of the DVDs by mail service will be allowed to keep the discs they still have. Photograph: Paul Sakuma/AP

Most of Netflix’s 238 million streaming customers around the world will be unaware that the company first launched 25 years ago as a DVD mailing service. Even fewer might realise that operation has continued, with under 1 million people still subscribing.

But now the company is finally hitting the stop button, with its five remaining US distribution centres mailing out their final discs to American customers on Friday.

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