By Miriam Arndts

Copenhagen (Denmark) - The postal company Postnord will no longer deliver letters in Denmark from 2026. The company, whose sole shareholders are the Danish and Swedish governments, has announced that around 1,500 jobs will be cut and all public letterboxes in the country will be dismantled.

Denmark is one of the most digitized countries in the world, and the number of letters sent has fallen by 90 percent since 2000, according to the press release. Postnord in Denmark therefore wants to concentrate on the delivery of parcels in the future.

Over the past few years, letter delivery in Denmark has been steadily reduced and made more expensive. Today, the cheapest postage for a letter within Denmark with a delivery time of up to five days is just under four euros. Sending a letter or postcard abroad, for example to neighboring Germany, costs the equivalent of 6.70 euros.

It is not only in Denmark that the letter business is in decline: Deutsche Post announced today (Thursday) that it intends to cut 8,000 jobs in this area by the end of the year. And in Germany, too, letter carriers are already posting fewer letters than before.

The Royal Mail in the UK has also been arguing for some time that it should no longer have to deliver letters every day of the week.

In Denmark, Postnord's delivery staff will post the last letters on December 30, 2025. However, this does not mean that the Danes will no longer be able to send letters at all.

There are other logistics companies that also offer letter deliveries, including the smaller provider DAO.

The logistics company Postnord was formed in 2009 from the merger of the state-owned Danish postal company Post Danmark and the Swedish company Posten AB. The Danish state owns 40 percent of Postnord shares, the Swedish state 60 percent.

The Danish division currently employs around 4600 people.