Denmark ending letter deliveries is a sign of the digital times
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PostNord blames sharply falling demand - will other post firms around the world follow suit?
  • marsza@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    11·
    20 hours ago

    Hah. Sold the post office to a private company.

    Yall vote in the mail? Uhh ohhhhh

    • HejMedDig@feddit.dkEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      No mail-in voting in Denmark. There’s early in-person voting at city hall, and in larger cities, some other municipal locations like libraries, and in-person voting on election day at schools or sports halls

  • makingStuffForFun@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    20 hours ago

    In 2024, a new law opened up the postal market to private competition and took away its exemption from the country’s 25% rate of VAT, so the price of a PostNord stamp jumped to 29 Danish krone ($4.55; £3.35) per letter.

    “That made [volumes] drop even further faster,”

    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pubEnglish
      4·
      18 hours ago

      They’ve been privatizing the post in my country too. Competition sprung up and they only want to do the most profitable tasks of course, like package delivery and newspapers. The postal service is of course still stuck with letters. But they seem to have an advantage with package returns with their offices everywhere.