“The stamp will be raised to nine dollars”

“Now it will be more expensive to post letters.nPostnord raises, namely frimärkspriset with 29 per cent.nto fewer and fewer letters are sent.”

“the Postage for ordinary letter is raised at the end of the year to sek 9, an increase of 29 per cent. As late as 1 april in the year was the last increase to 7 crowns.”

“Postnord justify the price increase with fewer and fewer letters are sent. “

“the Number of förstaklassbrev sent with Postnord has more than halved since the year 2000. “

“”Each year, reduce this volume by about 7 percent. Our assessment is that the volume decline will accelerate further – to 10-12 per cent a year,” writes Holm. “

“Will use”

“Already in the present correspondence letter a small percentage of all physical items which are still to be sent – less than 6 per cent by 2016. The rest is government and business mail, according to Postnord.”

“According to Postnord, the Swedish portohöjningen relatively low compared with our european counterparts. The corresponding porto in Norway costs 13 Norwegian kroner and in Finland 1.40 euro.”

“Holm also warns for upcoming portohöjningar:”