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Getty picturesThe state postal service of Denmark, Postnord, will finish all of the deliveries of letters on the finish of 2025, citing a drop of 90% of the volumes of letters because the starting of the century.
The choice results in the tip of 400 years of the corporate’s letters service. The 1,500 Denmark publish packing containers will start to vanish from the start of June.
Transport minister Thomas Danielsen tried to reassure the Danes, saying that the letters would nonetheless be despatched and obtained as “there’s a free marketplace for letters and packages”.
Postal companies all through Europe are grappling with the decline of the volumes of the letters. Deutsche Post German stated Thursday that they have been 8,000 jobs, in what he referred to as a “socially accountable manner”.
Deutsche Post has 187,000 staff and workers representatives have declared that they feared that extra cuts had arrived.
Denmark has had a common postal service for 400 years till the tip of 2023, however whereas the digital mail companies have taken maintain, the usage of letters decreased drastically.
Four lots of of employees discover themselves dropping their jobs, from a workforce of 4,600.
“It is an excellent unhappy day. Not just for our division, however for the 1,500 who face an unsure future,” stated worker Anders Raun Mikkelsen to the Danish station Dr.
Denmark is assessed as one of the crucial digitized international locations on this planet.
There is an app for nearly the whole lot: few individuals use money and the Danes even deliver the licenses and well being playing cards of drivers on their smartphones.
Banking declarations, invoices and correspondence of native authorities are all electronically despatched.
Public companies ship communications via an app of digital publish or different platforms and postnord Denmark states that the letters market is not worthwhile.
The numbers of the letters have decreased from the start of the century from 1.4 billion to 110 million final yr.
The choice will affect the aged extra. Although 95% of the Danes use the publish digital service, a 271,000 reported persons are nonetheless primarily based on bodily mail.
“There are many who rely lots on the letters delivered frequently. These embody appointments within the hospital, vaccinations or choices regarding house care”, Marlene Rishoj Cordes, from Oldest case (Daneage) instructed Denmark TV2.
Postnord resisted years of monetary struggles and final yr he carried out a deficit.
The Dane Dragsted deputy has blamed privatization for the transfer and complained that the transfer would drawback the individuals who reside in distant areas.
The introduction of a brand new postal act in 2024 opened the market of letters to the competitors of personal firms and the mail is not exempt from VAT, with consequent greater transport prices.
“When a letter prices 29 Danish Krone (£ 3,35; $ 4.20) there can be much less letters,” the CEO of Postnord Denmark, Kim Pedersen, instructed native golf equipment.
He stated that the Danes had grow to be more and more digital and that the decline of the volumes of the letters had grow to be thus pronounced that it had decreased as much as 30% solely within the final yr.
The firm stated that it ought to have centered on bundle deliveries and that any stamp bought this yr or in 2024 it could be reimbursed for a limited period in 2026.
Postnord additionally operates in Sweden. It is owned by 40% and 60% of Swedish property.
