Philippa, you can probably order the book from Amazon and get it delivered to the recipient wrapped in a gift bag (100% recycled) for £2.99 CASE STUDY: THE UNIVERSAL SERVICE IN DENMARK Post Nord (Royal Mail’s equivalent in Denmark) is no longer required to provide the Universal Postal Service, due to a recent change in the Danish postal law. Now, the Universal Service must be “handled by the market”, with several operators delivering letters and parcels at a universal price across the country. The Danish Government has made changes to the Universal Service earlier, and gone further, than any other comparator country. Since 2012, all citizens and businesses in Denmark have been obliged to receive and read communications from public bodies using a digital post system. (The Danish Government are still required to provide certain services – for instance, articles for the blind) A European Parliament study states “volumes for the basic letter product in Denmark declined by 93 per cent from 2010 to 2017”. As a result, letters went from six to five-day-a-week in 2016 and then down to one-day-a-week in 2018, prior to the decision to remove the requirement to have a Universal Service Provider, which came into effect from 1 January 2024. In response to the most recent changes, Annemarie Gardshol, Group CEO and president of PostNord, said: ‘The new law will result in our mail business as we know it today looking different in the future. PostNord’s presence in the Danish parcel market is not affected by the changes. ‘We still see great potential in the parcel market, as a result of more and more consumers choosing to make purchases online. We continue to invest and develop the business in this area for the benefit of our customers throughout the Nordic region.’ At Royal Mail, we remain committed to the Universal Service Obligation (USO) and the one-price-goes anywhere service to every address across the country. Denmark is an extreme case and not one we want to follow – letters remain important to us. But it is important to recognise that helping to secure a strong future for Royal Mail means securing a viable future for the USO, adapted to what consumers want today. We welcome that Ofcom’s review, published on 24th January. Ofcom’s report demonstrates that reform is urgent. We are doing everything in our power to transform but it is not sustainable to maintain a network built for 20 billion letters when we are now only delivering seven billion.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Postal collection times	02/03/15 23:47:00	Ken Munn
Re:Postal collection times	03/03/15 09:18:00	Nigel Brooks
Re:Postal collection times	03/03/15 10:57:00	Sandie Goodman
Re:Re:Postal collection times	03/03/15 12:06:00	Rebecca Hobson
Re:Re:Re:Postal collection times	26/02/24 13:02:00	Gail Busza
Re:Postal collection times	03/03/15 12:12:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Re:Postal collection times	03/03/15 12:25:00	Markos Williams
Re:Re:Postal collection times	03/03/15 15:46:00	Richard Greenhough
Re:Re:Re:Postal collection times	04/03/15 07:21:00	Sean Wales
Re:Postal collection times	04/03/15 07:21:00	Sean Wales
Re:Re:Postal collection times	26/02/24 08:14:00	James Petri
Re:Postal collection times	26/02/24 15:54:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Postal collection times	26/02/24 18:30:00	Hans Lund-Sorensen
Re:Re:Re:Postal collection times	26/02/24 22:54:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Postal collection times	27/02/24 07:34:00	Nicholas Beard
Re:Re:Re:Re:Postal collection times	27/02/24 10:53:00	Jim Lawes
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Postal collection times	27/02/24 12:10:00	Philippa Bond
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Postal collection times	27/02/24 14:07:00	Jim Lawes

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