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zenux
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 Posted: Thu, 21st Aug 2025 17:11 Post subject: Denmark's letter deliveries are over |
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Denmark ending letter deliveries is a sign of the digital times
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The steep decline in letter volumes has been driven largely by digitalisation, and PostNord announced in March that it will cease letter services at the end of the year.
It will bring to an end four centuries of letter deliveries by the state-owned operation.
A third of its workforce is being let go, as it sheds 2,200 positions in its loss-making letter arm. Instead it will focus on its profitable parcel business, creating 700 new roles.
"Danes hardly receive any letters anymore. It's been going down for years and years," says Kim Pedersen, chief of PostNord Denmark. "They're receiving one letter a month on average, it's not a lot."
Fifteen years ago, PostNord operated several enormous letter-sorting facilities, but now there's just one on the western outskirts of Copenhagen.
Since 2000, the volume of letters the business handles has declined by more than 90%, from around 1.4 billion to 110 million last year, and it continues to fall rapidly.
As PostNord prepares to cease letter deliveries, 1,500 of its red post boxes are being removed from Danish streets. However, few locals in the capital appear to use them much.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v37plv2edo
Same trend's here. You'll be hard-pressed to find remaining working mail boxes ( those that you insert envelopes into to be collected and delivered to addressees later on ). I discovered from the personal experience, even local post offices themselves are not 100% aware which mail boxes still exist in my town.
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Aug 2025 19:17 Post subject: |
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For years I have had to have an physical mailbox (by law). I wanted to tape that crap shut.
Nothing but commercials, pizza menus or jehovas witnesses crap. Anything important is sent digital these days anyway.
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zenux
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Aug 2025 19:51 Post subject: |
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I think I might have misled you with my commentary.
It's about public red post boxes not the private mailboxes.
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| Posted: Thu, 21st Aug 2025 23:09 Post subject: |
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I prefer junk mail, I like my mailbox. Its 95% junk mail but free paper, the free 'return' envelopes inside, and card stock.
Perfect for the garage shop to scribble notes on the back of, use the envelopes to hold small screws and parts taking something apart and write what it goes to on it, or use the stiff cardstock stuff for cutting out templates or shapes from, to trace.
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| Posted: Fri, 22nd Aug 2025 18:29 Post subject: |
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| zenux wrote: | I think I might have misled you with my commentary.
It's about public red post boxes not the private mailboxes.
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I know. I was just whining about MY mailbox. I want it gone.
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| Posted: Fri, 22nd Aug 2025 22:27 Post subject: |
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I should send a brief to all Danes that their letterbox is open for all.
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