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Netflix nights still come wrapped in red-and-white envelopes

Netflix’s DVD-by-mail rental service, now called DVD.com, is seen in a non-descript office in Fremont, Calif. March 29, 2022, It is located about 20 miles from Netflix’s main campus in Los Gatos, Calif. Netflix’s trailblazing DVD-by-mail rental service has been relegated as a relic in the age of video streaming, but there is still a steady — albeit shrinking — audience of diehards who are happily paying to receive those discs in the iconic red-and-white envelopes. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)

Netflix co-founder or original CEO Marc Randolph stands outside the Santa Cruz, California post office where in 1997 he mailed a Patsy Cline CD to determine whether a disc could make it through the Postal System without being damaged, May 31, 2022 in Santa Cruz, Calif. He is holding a small mailbox that Netflix made in its early days to promote the DVD-by-mail rental service. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)

A Netflix DVD envelope is shown on Nov. 17, 2022 in San Francisco. Subscribers to Netflix’s DVD-by-mail service still look forward to opening up their mailbox and finding one of the discs delivered in the familiar red-and-white envelopes. (AP Photo/Michael Liedtke)

Netflix nights still come wrapped in red-and-white envelopes