Post offices face major shutdown

The Norwegian postal service (Posten Norge) announced Tuesday that it will shut down 149 post offices by 2014, with only 29 surviving the massive closures in Norway plus one on the Norwegian-controlled Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. The move will affect around 1,000 postal employees and it’s already been approved by the Norwegian Parliament. Norway only [...]

Postal service to pay big fine

Norway’s postal service (Posten) lost its appeal of a hefty fine imposed by the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) for hindering competition through its “post in the store” concept. It did, though, get a discount on the fine because EFTA’s surveillance unit took more than seven years to investigate the charges. Posten now must pay [...]

Postal service plans more cuts

Norway’s postal service Posten has been undergoing years of reorganization and downsizing as managers try to reinvent the venerable institution. Now they want to eliminate Saturday mail deliveries, but politicians aren’t going along. Dag Mejdell, chief executive of Posten Norge AS, wrote in newspaper Dagens Næringsliv (DN) this week that Saturday deliveries are costly and [...]