end of public mail delivery

[nicolas de La Casinière]

Alert! For the first time, since January 1, 2026, a country's public service, PostNord in Denmark, is discontinuing mail delivery. If other nations follow suit, it will spell the end of mail art sent through the public system.

[nicolas de La Casinière]

more information : https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/world/europe/denmark-letter-deli...

[MH//ANTIPODE]

If you wanna read without an account: https://archive.ph/bdGE6

What’s disappearing isn’t letters, but the idea of postal service as public infrastructure. Germany did this 25 years ago... but at least retained enforceable service obligations, that layer seems much thinner here.

[Zorica Obradović]

The kids from my building are just starting to discover the mailboxes. Here we go!"

[maha]

value info

[stash! ephemera]

I would be absolutely heartbroken to see something like this happen in the US…although I could see it happening in my lifetime. Thanks for the article.

[holly johnson]

We already have changes that started before Christmas.  The collected mail only leaves the post office in the morning when the contract driver brings the mail from the processing plant (sounds like an animal operation!)

[Predrag Petrovic]

That is so typical for neoliberal market driven solutions, which disrespects real needs of society. In some way, no wonder EU Union is mockingly called ``EUSSR`` - although it seems to be even worse in many aspects. Enough said

[Stephen Tomasko]

In the US it is the super conservative market driven players who are behind these sorts of pushes 

[holly johnson]

I wonder how other carriers would treat it? Like DHS or UPS?

[nicolas de La Casinière]

in Denmark, the end of the public service opened a market to private and profit societies. I's already running. 

"In Denmark, letter deliveries won't actually come to an end. Instead, private delivery firm DAO will step into the gap with its own nationwide service", noted a BBC news : https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3v37plv2edo

[Zorica Obradović]

today at the post office of Serbia, they did not want to accept mail for America and Canada. They say that there is a suspension again and that their mail is being returned. So they manage to "cut" our contacts without "cutting" the postal service.

[Leslie Levenson]

Oh no! Hopefully, it opens up again quickly.