Why this popular WA tourist town could soon be left without a postcode<\/a><\/p>\nA popular tourist town in WA’s Pilbara could soon lose the only store providing banking and postal services.<\/p>\n
“The whole world is watching right now, and I think other postal companies and operators really look at the decision we took,” Ms J\u00f8rgensen said.<\/p>\n
“There has actually been a big understanding from the public in Denmark. Most people can’t remember when it was the last time they sent a letter themselves.”<\/p>\n
But it has not been well received by everyone; some advocacy groups warn the shift towards digital is happening too quickly and may leave the elderly and people in remote areas behind.<\/p>\n
“There are many who are very dependent on letters being delivered regularly,” Marlene Rishoj Cordes, from DaneAge, told Denmark’s TV2.<\/p>\n
“These include hospital appointments, vaccinations or decisions regarding home care,”<\/p>\n
Private companies to step in<\/p>\n
Since June, PostNord has been removing all 1,500 of its iconic red mailboxes scattered across the country.<\/p>\n
It only took three hours for the first 1,000 of the postboxes to be sold for charity \u2014 at roughly $472 each. Others will go to museums.<\/p>\n
“The interest was enormous, hundreds of thousands of people tried to buy a post box when they were put on sale. We are putting 200 more up for auction next year,” Ms J\u00f8rgensen said.<\/p>\n
PostNord will continue delivering letters to neighbouring Sweden, where the population is less digitalised.<\/p>\n
Danes can still send a love letter or a Christmas card in 2026, but only through a private company.<\/p>\n
They must either drop it at a shop, or pay extra to have it collected from home, which is available online or via an app.<\/p>\n
By law, Danes must always be able to send a letter. If a private company stops delivering them, the government must step in with a new provider.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When was the last time you sent a letter? Chances are, it has been a while. Emails, DMs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208921,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[138,12696,1651,42977,219,40571,111,139,69,3117,127337,127335,127336],"class_list":{"0":"post-208920","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-denmark","10":"tag-digital","11":"tag-digitalisation","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-letter","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-post","18":"tag-postal-service","19":"tag-postbox","20":"tag-postman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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