Farewell to Post Office

Life in Sweden

No. 29 Farewell to Post Office

2002/06/16

Now, people in Sweden are saying goodbye to their familiar post office in their neighbour. Posten (The Swedish Post) is closing down almost all the post offices everywhere in this country. Strictly speaking, the "new" post office only handle banking service and business letters, and now you have to go to gas stands or supermarkets instead. For me, it is hard to understand why crowded post offices in the urban area need to be shut down, however according to Posten's propaganda, it is offering more convinient service with longer opnening hours. So far, I have heard a lot of complaints with regards to the confusion caused by this reformation that stuffs at gas stands and supermarkets are not enough knowledged to handle various kind of postal service, and that looks like a natural consequence. It's true that the historical role of classical mailing system is fading out by the emerge of other measure of communications such as telephone, fax and e-mail. Nevertheless, only time will be able to prove whether this reformation was a right one or not....

A post office which used to be like.

Now, the ordinary postal service are taken over by gas stands and supermarkets.

Newly designed post boxes as the symbol for new "Posten", still with little functional difference from the old ones.

Posten http://www.posten.se

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