Sweden's postal service is considering letting customers pay for their mail using text messages, rather than with traditional stamps, in a move to use mobile technology to ease the lives of its citizens.
"We're very interested and are just now looking into a solution," said Anders Asberg, heard of marketing and development at the Swedish postal service. He added that officials have yet to finalize plans and don't expect it be launched before summer.
Denmark plans to unveil a similar service starting in April.
Both countries are looking for new ways to convince its citizens to send more letters. With new forms of communication, such as email, post offices around the world are struggling to make ends meet as revenues decline. The texting service hopes that more convenience will lead to a slight uptick in the number of packages being sent.
In January, the U.K. postal service launched an iPhone app that allows users to create personalized postage.
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