At the end of December 2025, something happened in Denmark that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. The state-owned postal service PostNord delivered its last letter, bringing to a close the history of an institution that had been operating continuously since 1624. Denmark was the first country in the world to completely abandon its national universal letter delivery service. Maintaining an extensive delivery network for around 110 million letters per year, down from over a billion in previous decades, simply ceased to be profitable. The story of the Danish postal service, which closed after 401 years of operation, has a touch of melancholy and a poetic ending.

Source: The Guardian January 12, 2026 18:38 UTC