Postal service on sharp decline across Europe, Denmark's PostNord to stop delivering letters – Firstpost

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Postal service on sharp decline across Europe, Denmark's PostNord to stop delivering letters – Firstpost

Denmark’s state-run postal service, PostNord, announced that it is breaking away with a 400-year-long tradition and will end all letter deliveries at the end of 2025. The move reflects the overall decline of postal services in Europe In a breakaway from the past, Denmark’s state-run postal service, PostNord, announced on Thursday that it is ending all letter deliveries at the end of 2025. Meanwhile, Denmark’s Transport Minister Thomas Danielsen reassured that Danes would still be able to send and receive letters since “there is a free market for both letters and parcels”. “When a letter costs 29 Danish kroner, there will be fewer letters,” PostNord Denmark’s Managing Director, Kim Pedersen, told local media, BBC reported.

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