{"id":81397,"date":"2025-08-31T14:44:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-denmark-ending-letter-deliveries-is-a-sign-of-the-digital-times-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T14:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T14:44:34","slug":"how-denmark-ending-letter-deliveries-is-a-sign-of-the-digital-times-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/how-denmark-ending-letter-deliveries-is-a-sign-of-the-digital-times-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"How Denmark ending letter deliveries is a sign of the digital times | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A steep decline in letters being sent by post means Denmark&#8217;s national postal service, PostNord, will cease letter services at <!--more--> the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>It will bring to an end four centuries of letter deliveries by the state-owned operation.<\/p>\n<p>A third of its workforce is being let go, as it sheds 2,200 positions in its loss-making letter arm &#8211; instead focusing on its profitable parcel business, creating 700 new roles.<\/p>\n<p>And the trend isn&#8217;t just happening in Denmark &#8211; physical mail has dropped by 30% or more from its historical peak across all major global markets, according to a report by consultancy firm McKinsey.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A steep decline in letters being sent by post means Denmark&#8217;s national postal service, PostNord, will cease letter services at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":81409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}