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Minister for the Interior Anders Ygeman said no today to Postnord’s request to have three days, not two, in which to get domestic mail from one part of Sweden to another, DN reports. The Swedish postal service is in crisis mode – see this post.
Formal approval from the government is still needed, but Postnord has already received permission from the the Post and Telecom Authority (Post- och Telestyrelsen) to deliver mail to people’s residences only every other day (instead of every day). However, this won’t be helpful unless it is also allowed to take three days to move the letter to where it can be delivered. This second part got a cold no.
What Postnord did get, was the promise of a formal inquiry – slated to take 18 months to complete. “A postal service inquiry is needed to see if this is the best way” Ygeman said. “I have to attend to what is best for citizens and the needs of customers.”
As their mail delivery service is used less and less, Postnord is expected to be billions of kronor in the red in only a few years.