Type
Internal restructuring
Country
Denmark
Region
Vejle amt;
Location of affected unit(s)
Frederecia
Sector
Transportation / Storage
Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities
Postal And Courier Activities
53.1 - Postal activities under universal service obligation

200 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
8 June 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2023
Foreseen end date
31 May 2023

Description

Postnord is a Danish/Swedish postal service company. The company plans to close its letter center in Frederecia and move the activities to its letter center in Høje Tåstrup. As a result, the company will dismiss 200 employees. The dismissals will take place over the next year and should be finalised before the summer of 2023. The company states that it will be in dialogue with the relevant trade unions to find solutions for the individual employees. The main reason for the restructuring is the decreasing demand for postal letters in Denmark. Since 2000, the number of letters posted has been falling down by 80%. The lower demand for postal letters has hit the turnover in Postnord: in the fiscal year 2021/22 the company experienced a deficit of 27 million DKK (app €3,6 million).

PostNord was created in 2009 by the Swedish government with the merger of the Swedish postal service (Posten) and the Danish postal service (Post Danmark). In Denmark, it currently employs 8,285 people.


Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2022), Postnord, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 106933, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106933.