Denmark To Stop Delivering Letters And Remove Post Boxes....

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/denmark-postal-service-to-stop-delivering-letters-13322922

how long before we do the same? I'll be sad to see pillar boxes go but I think it's innevitable.

[tomus42]

I think we're some way off that. I hope so anyway.

There are lots of old people that haven't got a clue about using the Internet and don't know what an app is. Even if they did they can't see the screen to use it anyway.

I don't know how Denmark has allowed for that.

[THECORBYLOON]

The UK population is about 11.5 times the size of Denmark's and Royal Mail delivered sixty-six times as many letters as PostNord did. 

It'll be a few year before we're in a similar situation.

[wolf63]

I've been sorting through hundreds of old postcards for Oxfam to sell.  The are about 100years old.

The lady who sent them sent many cards each day of her holiday to her mum and dad.  Things have changed.

 

[Buenchico]

>>> "I don't know how Denmark has allowed for that."

Denmark allows private companies to convey letters.  (So there will be alternative services open to people who still wish to send them). 

Here in the UK, Royal Mail has a monopoly on carrying 'regular' letters but, for example, Evri can get a 'large' letter from one side of the country to the other for £2.62 (using a service roughly equivalent to Royal Mail's Second Class) or £3.20 (similar to First Class postage). 

It's those sort of services which would come into play if Royal Mail was to cease delivering letters (and thereby losing their monopoly).

[tomus42]

As long as the banks, local councils, utilities, and every other thing my mum relies on getting by post uses those other services, I suppose it will be OK.

[Untitled]

very unwise in my view. even if it is loss making i think this is an essential piece of infrastructure.

[Khandro]

A mailed letter to any business or service is usually the best way to get a response.  

Contact by phone calls and emails are too easily ignored or forgotten.

[New Judge]

A service which has seen its demand fall by 90% in 25 years has o make some adjustments.

I think it is unnecessary these days tt undertake a delivery service to every single address every working day and I imagine in the UK tht will be altered, and quite soon.

Wih my legal hat on, there will have to be some adjustments to some legislation. Mny roaad traffic offences, for example, require  "Notice of Intended Prosecution" to be served within 14 days of the offence. The current "presumption of service" is that anything posted by first class post is delivered within two working days. That will obviously have to change.

If the UK did as Denmark is doing and abandons individual deliveries entirely, that legislation will be completely  unworkable.

[vulcan42]

I see they are to make parcels their priority, so send your letter in a box.😉 This will eventually come here, already my local post office has stopped delivering on a Saturday and during the week it's every other day.

[mjwman]

These"old people" that dont use internet and phones etc...
Do they actually exist in any numbers? The Internet has been around for so long now that they must be a rapidly diminishing group...

[youngmafbog]

No they dont and screens are big now so thats no excuse either as if you cant see one of them then you cant see a letter.

It wont happen here just yet but it will be coming.  I suspect it will first go private and then the cost will rise to match the real cost of running the service for a few.

Way of the world I'm afraid.

[tomus42]

//The Internet has been around for so long now that they must be a rapidly diminishing group...//

They are, but there's plenty left.

[gulliver1]

Let's just hope the French keep on delivering  letters or we will be over run with saucepan lids.

[10ClarionSt]

Well, there aint any phone boxes here any more is there? Except the ones for show. One is used as a book exchange somewhere. Anyway, letters are getting less and less, which is a shame, as I like writing letters and I honestly believe that some people do enjoy receiving them, especially when I try to write them in calligraphic Italics. Hey ho!