No More Love Mail for the Danes!

This news just made me so sad. By the end of this year, PostNord will stop delivering letters to the Nordic nation of Denmark.

When I was in Denmark, in 2000, I would have been heartbroken if I couldn't have mailed something. I find this fact mind-blowing.

According to the reports, PostNord, a state-run agency that services Denmark and Sweden, announced the change yesterday. Roughly 1,500 mailboxes throughout Denmark will be taken down in the second half of the year, and Danes can seek refunds for stamps. An estimated 1,500 of PostNord’s 4,600 employees will be laid off this year. Thankfully, Sweden’s letter delivery will not be affected.
This was the most shocking part of the article, "PostNord said the number of letters in Denmark has decreased by 90% since 2000, and by more than 30% in 2024 compared with the year before."
"We have been the Danes’ postal service for 400 years and therefore it is a difficult decision to put a bow on that part of our story,” PostNord Denmark chief executive Kim Pedersen said in a news release. “The Danes have become more and more digital which means that there are very few letters left for us to handle today, and the downturn continues so clearly that the market for letters is no longer profitable."

No birthday cards! No love letters to put in keepsake boxes to revisit in one's old age. No lingering on words written by hand or emotions vulnerably expressed.

Phyllis Theroux said, "To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart." Let's see an email do that. Just so sad!

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