In 2024, a new law opened up the postal market to private competition and took away its exemption from the country’s 25% rate of VAT, so the price of a PostNord stamp jumped to 29 Danish krone ($4.55; £3.35) per letter.
They’ve been privatizing the post in my country too. Competition sprung up and they only want to do the most profitable tasks of course, like package delivery and newspapers. The postal service is of course still stuck with letters. But they seem to have an advantage with package returns with their offices everywhere.
In 2024, a new law opened up the postal market to private competition and took away its exemption from the country’s 25% rate of VAT, so the price of a PostNord stamp jumped to 29 Danish krone ($4.55; £3.35) per letter.
“That made [volumes] drop even further faster,”
They’ve been privatizing the post in my country too. Competition sprung up and they only want to do the most profitable tasks of course, like package delivery and newspapers. The postal service is of course still stuck with letters. But they seem to have an advantage with package returns with their offices everywhere.