PostNord, a state-run agency that services Denmark and Sweden, announced the change Thursday. Roughly 1,500 mailboxes throughout Denmark will be taken down in the second half of the year, and Danes can seek refunds for stamps. An estimated 1,500 of PostNord’s 4,600 employees will be laid off this year.

Denmark's state-run postal service, PostNord, is to cease letter collection and delivery. Volume is down 90% since the beginning of the new millennium, they say; the public boxes will be removed by the end of the year.

COPENHAGEN – The Danish postal service announced on March 6 that it would no longer deliver letters from 2026 and would lay off a third of its staff. “At the end of the year, PostNord will deliver its final letter... to focus on its role as the premier parcel delivery service in Denmark,” the company announced in a statement.

Danish post operator PostNord said on Thursday it would disband its letter delivery service, with 1,500 employees set to lose their jobs.

Sending and receiving letters in Denmark will take a big hit by 2026 as its national postal service will stop letter deliveries when 2025 comes to a close.

Three months ago, the Danish postal service celebrated its 400th birthday – describing itself as a “backbone of society” and lauding its “great service for the oldest postal service in Scandinavia”.

There were 110 million letters sent in Denmark last year, and in 2026, there will apparently be almost none. PostNord, the state-run postal service, announced Thursday that it will end letter deliveries at the end of this year owing to a 90% drop in letter volumes since 2000,