In June, all Dutch municipalities will be connected to Messages about your Neighborhood

On Friday, June 21, 2024, all 342 Dutch municipalities will be connected to the Messages about your Neighborhood email service. This is reported by the Ministry of the Interior. Last week, IT manager Logius connected the 258th municipality in the Netherlands to the service. According to the Ministry of the Interior, approximately eight percent of the current number of subscribers open an announcement on the search website once a week. officielekennismakingen.nl. According to the ministry, this means that people would like to be kept informed of announcements. Since the start of Messages about your Neighborhood in the autumn of 2023, approximately two percent of the current number of subscribers have unsubscribed.

Messages about your Neighborhood is an email service from the Dutch government. Registered Dutch people can stay informed of announcements about their immediate living environment via these emails. Every Dutch person who is 25 years or older, lives in the country and has a MijnOverheid account with a verified email address, automatically receives emails from Messages about your Neighborhood.

Citizens can indicate via MijnOverheid how many emails they want to receive and how large the living environment of the announcements should be. Subscribers can unsubscribe by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the emails or by indicating this option on the MijnOverheid website.