Debate, Chess | Postage – letter abroad
Reader’s letter This is a discussion post, written by an external contributor. The post expresses the views of the writer.
It shouldn’t be easy to send an envelope to Denmark. I posted a letter to my grandson in Denmark on 8.11.2022. Three days later it is stamped by PostNord in Copenhagen with the following mark: Missing declaration CN22. Returned Shipment/Return CN15.
The envelope was returned to me and received in Skjåk until weeks later. No one in a regular Post-i shop, which is Postverket’s new services in Norway, told me that I had to fill out a separate customs declaration form and state what the contents were. Where has the service gone?
I understand that store employees, whether it is at Kiwi, Rema or Coop, must know all the rules for overseas shipments. I think this is probably due to poor training on the Postverket’s part now that we hardly have post offices in big cities and in any case not in rural areas. It is not easy to understand that society has become so rigid that you have to have an overview of the contents of an envelope that is going abroad.
It is said that the mail must always go forward, so now I probably have to familiarize myself with new rules in order to send mail outside Norway’s borders. That it should cost me over 100 kroner to send a small gift consisting of two Bjørnis plasters to my small grandchildren is poor customer service.
Ronald Robertsen, pensioner, Skjåk