Danish postal service to cease delivering letters after 90% drop in numbers

The Danish postal service has mentioned it’ll not ship letters from subsequent 12 months and can lower a 3rd of its workers.

“On the finish of the 12 months, PostNord will ship its ultimate letter … to deal with its function because the premier parcel supply service in Denmark,” the corporate introduced in an announcement.

PostNord mentioned the restructuring was as a result of digitalisation resulting in an enormous lower within the variety of letters despatched, with a 90% discount since 2000. A complete of 1,500 out of 4,600 jobs would go, it mentioned.

“In 2024, the variety of letters fell by greater than 30% in contrast with the earlier 12 months and this pattern will proceed,” the corporate added.

PostNord misplaced its obligation to ship submit to the entire of Denmark final 12 months in a transfer in the direction of market liberalisation, which means the corporate additionally misplaced a lot of its monetary assist.

The distributor DAO, which gained the contract to ship public service mail final 12 months, has mentioned it is able to strengthen its letter distribution service.

“We are able to nonetheless ship and obtain letters in all places within the nation,” the tranport minister, Thomas Danielsen, instructed the Ritzau information company.

Many postal companies are struggling throughout Europe as a result of digitalisation. The German postal service, Deutsche Put up, additionally introduced on Thursday that it could lower 8,000 jobs in Germany to scale back prices.

The core letters enterprise of Britain’s Royal Mail has additionally been ravaged. The UK communications regulator, Ofcom, has proposed Royal Mail ship second-class letters on alternate weekdays doubtlessly saving the corporate a whole bunch of tens of millions of kilos.