At the turn of the year, several changes came into force at Postnord. For example, the letter portion was raised as fewer and fewer people send letters, which also makes letter management more expensive, according to the company.
– What is happening is that the revenue from the postage is drastically reduced and we have a high proportion of fixed costs. Since we do not receive any state support for postal service is the only remaining solution for us to raise the postage, have Henrik Ishiharapress spokesman at Postnord, previously told Sweden’s Radio Ekot.
Even during 2023, the letter portion was raised.
“So far, the universal postal service has been self-financed, but in the near future we expect that postage revenue will no longer be enough to finance our fine-mesh infrastructure throughout Sweden,” said the company’s then Sweden-CD Mathias Krümmel in a press release when.
With less letter volumes, the number of mailboxes around the country has also decreased. Today, Postnord has 18,139 mailboxes in Sweden. But how many mailboxes actually removed the company last year?
“2024 we removed 2,907 mailboxes,” writes the press department in an email to News24.