Danish Postal Service Stops Delivering Letters After 400 Years

Danish postal service stops delivering letters after 400 years

The Danish postal service will send Christmas cards for the last time, as it stops letter deliveries at the end of this month after 400 years. Postvæsenet (now PostNord Danmark) was founded in December 1624, and at its peak carried nearly 1.5 billion letters, but volumes have dropped — and prices have risen — as communication becomes increasingly digital. Last year just 110 million letters were sent. The service will continue to carry parcels, b…

How posts can redesign universal service for a digital-first era

PostNord has confirmed that it will deliver its final letter at the end of 2025 and, from 2026, will focus its Danish business entirely on parcels. Letter volumes in Denmark have fallen by more than 90% since 2000, the nationwide obligation to provide letter services has been removed, and the numbers simply no longer add up. For the postal world, this is more than a Danish story. It is a warning. Across Europe, regulators are openly questioning …

Denmark Posts Its Last Letters as Hallowed National Mail Ends

Denmark's postal service, established by King Christian IV four centuries ago as one of Europe's first modern mail systems, will stop delivering letters on December 30, ending a tradition that once saw riders given a maximum of 45 minutes to cover each 10-kilometer stretch of routes running from Hamburg to Norway. PostNord, the postal service Denmark has shared with Sweden since 2009, started removing its 1,500 remaining red post boxes in June;…