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PostNord, the public postal service company in Denmark, will stop delivering letters starting tomorrow, thus ending a 401-year tradition, although it will still be possible to send letters through a private company.
The postal workers of the public company are making their last rounds this Tuesday to deliver letters, following a decision to abandon that service announced last March and justified by the lack of profitability. Since the year 2000, when a record figure of 1.5 billion was reached, the number of letters sent by Danes has plummeted to 122 million last year, a drop of more than 90%.You can also read: China intensifies maneuvers with live fire around Taiwan and announces countermeasures
"It has been a difficult decision to put an end to this part of our history. Danes are increasingly digital, there are very few letters these days and that decline continues, so the postal market is no longer profitable," justified a few months ago the historic step the director of the Danish subsidiary of PostNord, Kim Pedersen. The Danish state had already taken the first step in 2014, when it decided that all communication from the authorities with citizens would be done digitally. Another almost definitive step took place in 2023, when, de facto, the postal market was privatized by exempting PostNord from the obligation to transport letters, packages, magazines and newspapers in exchange for compensation from the State, after the company accumulated millions in losses. However, Danes will be able to send letters through the 1,600 parcel services of the private firm Dao, which has been dedicated for years to the distribution of newspapers, magazines and packages and which will take over the distribution of letters from Thursday, January 1, 2026. Dao estimates that the number of products distributed will increase in 2026 from 150 to 210 million, and that of these, about 70 million will correspond to letters. "We hope that the remaining letters are for citizens who want to continue receiving them this way," Dao director Hans Peter Nissen told the Danish news agency 'Ritzau'. Nissen was convinced that the business will be profitable, as the company can combine the delivery of letters with that of newspapers, magazines and packages, and promised a faster service that will not leave out the most geographically isolated areas.
