The economic affairs ministry is set to allow the Dutch postal service PostNL to scrap Monday deliveries, the Telegraaf reports on Thursday.

Junior minister Henk Bleker says the move is necessary because of the increase in email and the fact that few letters are delivered on Monday anyway, the paper states.
PostNL would have to put up the price of stamps sharply to make a continuing six-day delivery requirement profitable, the minister says.
The former state-owned monopoly is currently reorganising its delivery services following the start of cheap competition from budget delivery firms who focus on mass mailings and pay their workers per item delivered rather than a fixed salary.