The Pooros company of Denmark, Postnord, its decision to stop delivering letters to focus on the parcel service. The last letter will be distributed on December 30, and with it, the company will end a mission that the State has lent for about four centuries. The 90% decrease in the volume of the correspondence delivered “of more than 1.4 billion letters in 2000 by just under 200 million in 2024 – added to the increase in the demand for transport transport by the Danish, have been the reasons stated by the state to end this service.
He said that the cemetery of the letters resembles the cemetery of men. In Denmark, first the 1,500 red mailboxes that adorn the streets of the country will go to rest, and that the company will begin to withdraw since June. On December 18, the last stamp will be sold and, until that day, the Danes will be able to deliver basic letters (letters, commercial letters, direct mail and magazine mail). On December 29, the fast cards, the certified and those that have acknowledgment of receipt will end. The final letter will be delivered to its recipient the next day.
Postnord assumed in 1995 the delivery of the letters that since 1624 had also made the state postvaesenet, created by King Christian IV. The correspondence was then distributed in mailbags on horses, which in 1781 were replaced by carriages and in 1844 by the railroads, which carried the cards from one mail office to another. The first mailboxes were installed by the company in 1851.
Danish transport minister Thomas Danielsen said that the card delivery service will continue throughout 2024, in statements. Postnord has affirmed that some private company could assume deliveries, as well as the international mail sending. “It will be up to the Ministry of Transportation, for example, through tender, who will be in charge of this task in the future,” said the state company in the statement. For now, about 1,500 workers will lose their job.
The deputy of the Roji-Verde Pelle Dragsted Alliance, in the opposition to the Social Democratic government, has stressed that the end of the postal service mainly affects the people who live in peripheral areas: “My best wishes for the many talented employees who are now paying the price of the privatizing ideology of politicians,” he regretted in his X. The elderly, while 271,000 people continue to depend on physical mail.
Post Nord’s situation is the completely predictable result of many years of so -called “liberalization”.
Now we become a country without an actual postal service. Where people living in outskirts are set worse. Where you can hardly expect to be able to be postponed where you …
– Pelle Dragsted (@pellslagsted)
The letters resist, however, forgotten. Postnord has assured that it will continue to provide the correspondence service in Sweden. The last lag of the centennial work will be the reimbursement that the company will offer to those who had bought stamps and do not use them this year. They can recover their money in 2026, although for a limited time.
