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The Danish national postal service’s financial results for the first half of the year show profits of 253m kroner, down from 616m kroner for the same period last year.



Managing director K.B. Pedersen has announced 600 employees would be made redundant in the next six months. Post Danmark cut about 1,000 jobs last year.



The company’s financial statement shows that fewer letters and packages were posted this year, especially by small businesses.



In June, the state-owned mail service merged with its Swedish counterpart Posten AB to form Posten Norden, with Pedersen at the administrative helm. The merger was made in an effort to fight off the increased competition from private carriers expected to result from the European Union’s liberalisation of the postal market in 2011.



UNI affiliate in Denmark 3F says that the job losses are because of the financial crisis and the down turn of mail in general - 10% from 2008 to 2009. What troubles the union the most is the down turn in mail combined with the liberalization in 2011. 3F have asked Socialdemokratiet (The Danish Labour party) to wake up and make up their mind: will the liberalization end up as anything else than government –supported cherry-picking for private companies?