US EditionDigital age brings Denmark’s postal service to a historic end
Denmark ends state letter delivery as volumes drop over 90% since 2000; private operator Dao to handle mail with 1,500 jobs cut and iconic red postboxes removed.
- On December 30, PostNord will stop national letter delivery, ending the service that began in 1624 and lasted for more than 400 years in Denmark.
- Over the past 25 years, letter volumes fell from 1.5 billion in 2000 to 110 million in 2024, and PostNord says e-commerce and parcel market growth shifted priorities.
- From the end of the year, PostNord will remove around 1,500 red postboxes, while DAO expects letter volumes to rise from around 30 million in 2025 to roughly 80 million in 2026, and towns may buy boxes for up to 2,000 kroner.
- The DaneAge Association warned the decision risks disadvantaging one-in-five Danes aged over 65 and people in remote areas, a concern echoed by Pelle Dragsted earlier this year.
- Denmark's move may be the first to accept ending six-day national letter delivery, contrasting with Germany's official use of letters and France's declining La Poste revenues.
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The Danish postal service has officially ceased its mail delivery after more than 400 years of service, following a sharp decline in deliveries due to the arrival of the digital age.
In Denmark today is the last day of an era. From 30 December the nostalgic red mailboxes belong to the past.
The problem is that all the exchanges are now digital, the least administrative mail, the least invoice. Consequently, the number of letters has fallen by 90% since 2000. The activity is not profitable enough for the Danish Post Office, which will abandon the distribution of letters as from 1 January. It will only deliver parcels. The mail service has been transferred to Dao, a private company. (International).
Danish post office delivers last letter, ending a 400-year run to adapt to the digital age
It's the end of an era for the Danish post office. Citing a 90% drop in letter-sending over the past quarter-century, PostNord has ended delivering paper letters in the country, a service first started in 1624. Plus, France is set to issue €310 billion in new sovereign bonds next year, a move that's set to complicate its effort to reduce its debt pile, already at over 117% of GDP.
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