Sweden orders review of postal needs during war and crisis
Sweden's government has told 20 authorities to map how postal services would be used during heightened alert or war. The assignment is intended to identify what the total-defence system needs from letters, parcels and other postal functions when normal conditions are disrupted.
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The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority will coordinate the work. Agencies must examine dependencies, prioritisation and how postal capacity could support civil and military defence, drawing on proposals already developed by the regulator and lessons from Ukraine.
The government has also asked the regulator to prepare a national coordination group for postal preparedness, along with information and exercises for participating organisations.
The decision does not change household delivery rules today. It starts contingency planning for services that authorities may need to preserve or prioritise in a national emergency, with the participating agencies expected to provide the evidence for later preparedness measures.
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