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Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters


The decision will end 400 years of the company's letter service, and postboxes will disappear from June.

Germany's Deutsche Post said on Thursday it was axing 8,000 jobs, in what it called a "socially responsible manner". Public services send communications via a Digital Post app or other platforms and PostNord Denmark says the letter market is no longer profitable. Chief executive Kim Pedersen said Danes had become increasingly digital and the decline in letter volumes had become so pronounced that it had fallen by as much as 30% in the past year alone.

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