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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Danish postal service to stop delivering letters after 400 years | History Defined

Mailboxes at Vesterport Station in Copenhagen, Denmark
PostNord, which will continue to deliver letters in Sweden, has said it will refund unused Danish stamps for a limited time. Photograph: Liselotte Sabroe/EPA

The Danish postal service will deliver its last letter on 30 December, ending a more than 400-year-old tradition.

Announcing the decision earlier this year to stop delivering letters, PostNord, formed in 2009 in a merger of the Swedish and Danish postal services, said it would cut 1,500 jobs in Denmark and remove 1,500 red postboxes amid the “increasing digitalisation” of Danish society.

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