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Netflix will finally stop mailing DVDs. These people will miss them.

The red envelopes that got Netflix its start are ending and leaving long-term subscribers in a lurch

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Updated April 18, 2023 at 8:40 p.m. EDT|Published April 18, 2023 at 7:24 p.m. EDT
Netflix employee Hector Comancho moves boxes of ready-to-be-shipped DVDs in 2002 in San Jose. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Netflix’s signature red envelopes have finally reached their end.

After 25 years of sending discs of movies and TV shows to people through the mail, Netflix is discontinuing the DVD subscription business that started it all, the company announced in its Tuesday earnings report.

“Our goal has always been to provide the best service for our members but as the DVD business continues to shrink that’s going to become increasingly hard,” the company said in its earnings release, adding that it has shipped more than 5 billion discs since its start.