It could be worse. In Denmark, a country measuring just 452 kilometres from East to West, it takes five business days to deliver an ordinary letter, roughly the same time it took 400 years ago when regular mail deliveries started. They charge you 11 DKK (1.77 USD) for that.
For people living close to the German border it is cheaper to mail their letters from Germany.
You can also opt to pay 29 DKK (4,65 USD) to have your letter delivered the next day but then you can't use an ordinary letterbox (if you can find one of these to begin with, most have been taken down to cut costs) but you have to post it at the post office.
Mail delivery has been a wildly unprofitable business since the government moved almost all of its written communication with citizens to a digital platform in 2014. PostNord, the unholy merger of the sorry remains of the former Danish and Swedish post offices, has since then embarked on an endless array of cost-cutting measures, resulting in an incredibly bad and expensive postal service. The high costs and low quality has furthered the decline of the postal service and led to people abandoning more casual letters, like postcards or invitations, and finding other alternatives.
It could be worse. In Denmark, a country measuring just 452 kilometres from East to West, it takes five business days to deliver an ordinary letter, roughly the same time it took 400 years ago when regular mail deliveries started. They charge you 11 DKK (1.77 USD) for that.
For people living close to the German border it is cheaper to mail their letters from Germany.
You can also opt to pay 29 DKK (4,65 USD) to have your letter delivered the next day but then you can't use an ordinary letterbox (if you can find one of these to begin with, most have been taken down to cut costs) but you have to post it at the post office.
Mail delivery has been a wildly unprofitable business since the government moved almost all of its written communication with citizens to a digital platform in 2014. PostNord, the unholy merger of the sorry remains of the former Danish and Swedish post offices, has since then embarked on an endless array of cost-cutting measures, resulting in an incredibly bad and expensive postal service. The high costs and low quality has furthered the decline of the postal service and led to people abandoning more casual letters, like postcards or invitations, and finding other alternatives.
Lol yeah postnord isn't making it better in Sweden either