Citymail stop handing out mail was the third weekday. The reason is that the company needs to reduce their costs. Instead, the record will be awarded every four daily lives. The conversion applies to the whole country and is counted to be finished until the fall of 2019. However, it has already begun in some parts of the country, for example Stockholm city centre.
– We have a declining mail volumes and the need to ensure profitability, ” says Patrik Allinger, presskommunikatör on the postal operator.
shipments from businesses to individuals or other companies. About 19 percent of all mail is dealt out of them. In a year, there are approximately 400 million letters out in the country. The decision to cut down on mail delivery may small business owners to see red.
– It is entirely to the forest, because it affects us small business owners, ” says Erik Sjölander.
the Association has long been critical of the reduced mail delivery. As an example, Erik Sjölander Postnord, which, inter alia, has decided to stop emptying the mailboxes on the Sundays from the first of July 2019.
When the small business owner sends in the results and balance sheet do more with the record, as many find it difficult to do it digitally, ” he says.
by the Swedish entrepreneurship consists of small or medium-sized enterprises. Some 72 per cent of all companies registered in Företagarregistret are sole proprietorships, according to statistics from Statistics sweden (SCB) in 2018. Total covered registry of 1.136.132 companies during the last year.
– the Difference between large and smaller companies is that we less often do everything themselves, therefore, are many out at the last second to send special paper to the authorities, to postal operators distribute the mail more often than every other day is a problem, ” says Erik Sjölander.
Erik Sjölander, economic policy spokesperson on small business association. Photo: Anna Lauridsen Kullafoto.
the national Post and telecom agency says that fewer people are dependent on femdagarspost. As digitisation increases, sending fewer people to the physical letter. For that reason, draws several postal operators down on the week.
– When there is no opportunity for the direct price increases, we must reduce costs in other ways, and we see the declining volumes, ” says Patrik Allinger on File.
the company talked with their corporate clients. According to Patrick Allinger, the majority received the news positively.
“We have had a long dialogue with the companies is very positive, it will be better for most recipients and worse for a few,” he says.
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