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Denmark’s postal service is sending Royal Mail a chilling message...

Denmark scraps letters: Postal service will stop delivering mail due to fall in demand - with iconic red post boxes removed around the country

[Wullie10]

No chance here. To many angry Daily Mail readers and useless politicians. It would 20 years to set up a review. Look at the mess today.

[tramssirhc]

7 billion letters dont deliver themselves.

[norris9]

UK still sends vastly more mail than the Danes have done.

Even if mail does decline massively we'd still deliver parcels. I think I'd rather deliver parcels anyway. Carrying a postal bag around all day isn't good for you.

[comeracing]

We all the the top brass will get rid of mail ,there's no £s/profit in it, I'll give it 2 years max.
As for parcels they will grow year on year that's where the business is going .

[BigSacks]

And they charged all the people a dollar and a half just to see them.

[Mr Rush]

We all the the top brass will get rid of mail ,there's no £s/profit in it

Letters were 51% of revenue in 2018/19. In 2020 letters were 2:1 more profitable than parcels (being more resource intensive). These numbers can't have shifted that much. They're likely more profitable since letters get delivered at the company's convenience post-pandemic rather than daily per unchanged specification.

There's money in letters, it's just that the numbers aren't going up. Talking about parcels all day was fodder for shareholders when the company was publicly traded.

[matthew68]

UK still sends vastly more mail than the Danes have done.

Even if mail does decline massively we'd still deliver parcels. I think I'd rather deliver parcels anyway. Carrying a postal bag around all day isn't good for you.

Use a trolley

[norris9]

UK still sends vastly more mail than the Danes have done.

Even if mail does decline massively we'd still deliver parcels. I think I'd rather deliver parcels anyway. Carrying a postal bag around all day isn't good for you.

Use a trolley

No room for a trolley in a van share, where do you put it - on top of all the bags and parcels and then have to awkwardly life it out risking back injury in the process as it gets tangled in bag straps.

[ted_e_bear]

UK still sends vastly more mail than the Danes have done.

Even if mail does decline massively we'd still deliver parcels. I think I'd rather deliver parcels anyway. Carrying a postal bag around all day isn't good for you.

Use a trolley

No room for a trolley in a van share, where do you put it - on top of all the bags and parcels and then have to awkwardly life it out risking back injury in the process as it gets tangled in bag straps.

When they introduced van share back when you could fit everything in the combos I suggested getting something like a simple L shape plywood frame like a shelf if that makes sense fitted which would go behind the sliding door so you could slide a couple of trolleys in underneath it, obviously no one interested so we were stuck with the issue you described plus you forgot the added bonus of when you accidentally run over some dog s**t

[Mr Rush]

When they introduced van share back when you could fit everything in the combos I suggested getting something like a simple L shape plywood frame like a shelf if that makes sense fitted which would go behind the sliding door so you could slide a couple of trolleys in underneath it, obviously no one interested so we were stuck with the issue you described plus you forgot the added bonus of when you accidentally run over some dog s**t

Speaking of suggestions. I see Amazon out delivering tiny packets all the time and the back of their vans have nice bins and partitions to keep the workload organised. We've been told we're a 'parcels company' for about a decade now but there have been no useful developments in handling this volume of packets. That idea that was being trialled last year about sorting packets directly into bags (Format Two Sortation?) - making the back of your van look like 2012 with everything stowed in the bags for each loop hinged entirely on making all the oversized someone else's problem.