PostNord’s decision to end service on 30 December comes after fear over ‘increasing digitalisation’ of Danish society

PostNord’s decision to end service on 30 December comes after fear over ‘increasing digitalisation’ of Danish society

The Danish postal service will deliver its last letter on 30 December, ending a more than 400-year-old tradition.

Announcing the decision earlier this year to stop delivering letters, PostNord, formed in 2009 in a merger of the Swedish and Danish postal services, said it would cut 1,500 jobs in Denmark and remove 1,500 red postboxes amid the “increasing digitalisation” of Danish society.

Describing Denmark as “one of the most digitalised countries in the world”, the company said the demand for letters had “fallen drastically” while online shopping continued to increase, prompting the decision to instead focus on parcels.

  • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    Announcing the decision earlier this year to stop delivering letters, PostNord, formed in 2009 in a merger of the Swedish and Danish postal services, said it would cut 1,500 jobs in Denmark and remove 1,500 red postboxes amid the “increasing digitalisation” of Danish society.

    I thought this was decided when the merger happened in 2009. This has been known in Sweden since right after the merger happened and it completely fucked our old postal service.

  • indomara@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    8 hours ago

    This is really sad … I still send letters, sometimes it’s nice to get a post card or letter in the mail. 😔

    • djmikeale@feddit.dkEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Christmas cards aren’t really a thing in Denmark. Like we don’t ever get physical mail. Perhaps one letter once a month or something? Everything goes through our digital mail or email

      • vodka@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Yeah, here in Norway I’ve gotten a total of 2 letters in the mail this year. Both of which were from the government with voting information.

        If there was no election this year, I wouldn’t have gotten a single physical letter.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I always assumed one day the separate mail and parcel services would become one. In my mind letters would be delivered as a parcel, so driven to your door instead of a service that passes every door.

      Though another comment says in this case another company will be picking up the service.

    • azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      7 hours ago

      “This could have been and email” I guess.

      There’s still mail service happening, but it’s going to get ever more expensive to use analog.

    • bonenode@piefed.socialEnglish
      201·
      9 hours ago

      It even says in the description of the post here on Lemmy that they concentrate on parcels. So, no, they didn’t have one job, they had at least two.