{"id":253151,"date":"2025-03-06T14:34:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/denmarks-postal-service-to-stop-delivering-letters\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T14:34:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T14:34:00","slug":"denmarks-postal-service-to-stop-delivering-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/denmarks-postal-service-to-stop-delivering-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Denmark’s postal service to stop delivering letters"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Denmark’s state-run postal service, PostNord, is to end all letter deliveries at the end of 2025, citing a 90% decline in letter volumes since the start of the century.<\/p>\n

The decision brings to an end 400 years of the company’s letter service. Denmark’s 1,500 post boxes will start to disappear from the start of June.<\/p>\n

Transport Minister Thomas Danielsen sought to reassure Danes, saying letters would still be sent and received as “there is a free market for both letters and parcels”.<\/p>\n

Postal services across Europe are grappling with the decline in letter volumes. Germany’s Deutsche Post said on Thursday it was axing 8,000 jobs, in what it called a “socially responsible manner”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Deutsche Post has 187,000 employees and staff representatives said they feared more cuts were to come.<\/p>\n

Denmark had a universal postal service for 400 years until the end of 2023, but as digital mail services have taken hold, the use of letters has fallen dramatically.<\/p>\n

Fifteen hundred workers facing losing their jobs, out of a workforce of 4,600.<\/p>\n

“It’s a super sad day. Not just for our department, but for the 1,500 who face an uncertain future,” employee Anders Raun Mikkelsen told Danish broadcaster DR.<\/p>\n

Denmark ranks as one of the world’s most digitalised countries. <\/p>\n

There’s an app for almost everything: few people use cash, and Danes even carry drivers’ licences and health cards on their smartphones.<\/p>\n

Bank statements, bills, and correspondence from local authorities are all sent electronically.<\/p>\n

Public services send communications via a Digital Post app or other platforms and PostNord Denmark says the letter market is no longer profitable. <\/p>\n

Letter numbers have fallen since the start of the century from 1.4 billion to 110 million last year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The decision will affect elderly people most. Although 95% of Danes use the Digital Post service, a reported 271,000 people still rely on physical mail.<\/p>\n

“There are many who are very dependent on letters being delivered regularly. These include hospital appointments, vaccinations or decisions regarding home care,” Marlene Rishoj Cordes, from Aeldre Sagen<\/i> (DaneAge) told Denmark’s TV2.<\/p>\n

PostNord has weathered years of financial struggles and last year was running a deficit. <\/p>\n

Danish MP Pelle Dragsted blamed privatisation for the move and complained the move would disadvantage people living in remote areas.<\/p>\n

The introduction of a new Postal Act in 2024 opened up the letter market to competition from private firms and mail is no longer exempted from VAT, resulting in higher postage costs.<\/p>\n

“When a letter costs 29 Danish krone (\u00a33.35; $4.20) there will be fewer letters,” PostNord Denmark’s Managing Director, Kim Pedersen, told local media.<\/p>\n

He said Danes had become increasingly digital and the decline in letter volumes had become so pronounced that it had fallen by as much as 30% in the past year alone.<\/p>\n

The company said it would switch its focus to parcel deliveries and that any postage stamps bought this year or in 2024 could be refunded for a limited period in 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n

PostNord also operates in Sweden. It is 40% Danish-owned and 60% Swedish-owned.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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