– We have never had a greater reduction in mail volumes than in the second half of the year, both as a share of volumes and in terms of absolute numbers, " says postnord's communications director Thomas Backteman at Swedish newspaper svenska Dagbladet.
How big the reduction is presented first in February, but the large drop in students has led to postnord's president and ceo, Håkan Ericsson has turned to digitaliseringsminister Peter Eriksson (MP) to appeal to the law if the letter postage to be changed. In a letter dated 10 January write Ericsson that the company will reach the end of the road in year:
”With this letter I want to inform the responsible minister and the government offices to Postnord in the autumn of 2019, the need to raise the postage by 1 penny to be able to perform samhällsuppdraget financially sustainable. Such an increase would at the same time, according to postnord's opinion, be contrary to the price cap in the postförordningen,” he writes, according to the SvD in the letter.