The postal service in Norway is on the verge of being functionally ended, and all letters might get treated as parcels that you pick up at a hub in the near future.
You don’t have parcels delivered to your doorstep???
You can get the home delivery, but the common thing is to get it delivered to the post office, which is usually in the grocery store closest to you. (The dedicated post offices died a few decades back afaik.)
So I get a notification in the post app, or by mail or sms, depending, and then I just pick it up wherever I’m getting groceries. Same thing happens if someone tries to mail me something that doesn’t fit in the mail box.
I can confirm that my brother that lives in Norway does not. All his mail is at the post in the gas station on the mainland. There is no mail service, or literally any commercial services, on his island; he has to take the ferry to get anywhere or anything.
You don’t have parcels delivered to your doorstep???
You can get the home delivery, but the common thing is to get it delivered to the post office, which is usually in the grocery store closest to you. (The dedicated post offices died a few decades back afaik.)
So I get a notification in the post app, or by mail or sms, depending, and then I just pick it up wherever I’m getting groceries. Same thing happens if someone tries to mail me something that doesn’t fit in the mail box.
I can confirm that my brother that lives in Norway does not. All his mail is at the post in the gas station on the mainland. There is no mail service, or literally any commercial services, on his island; he has to take the ferry to get anywhere or anything.
That may be because he is living on an island rather than Norway thing in general, no?
It’s a bit of both, I think. I believe that’s common in a lot of less-accessible rural areas, not just islands.