This year Positivus festival visitors can use Eksprespasts of Latvijas Pasts again to ship their belongings to festival venue

10.07.2014

This year Positivus festival visitors can use Eksprespasts of Latvijas Pasts again to ship their belongings tofestival venue

This year, just like the previous two years, Eksprespasts of Latvijas Pasts offers Positivus festival visitors to ship their belongings to the festival venue and send them back home after the festival is over. Starting from July 14, payment for this service can be made either electronically through the dedicated websitehttp://mans.expresspasts.lv/positivusor in the post offices. The belongings to be sent to the venue of Positivus festival can be dispatched in 33 post offices of Latvijas Pasts: nine offices in Riga and six largest offices located in the towns or cities of each of the four regions. The deadline for applications for sending personal belongings to Positivus on the Internet and in the selected post offices is July 18.

Among things which can be sent in advance to the festival venue are tents, sleeping bags, clothes and other necessary belongings. This will simplify one's trip to and from Positivus festival. For the shipment to reach its destination safely, items will be placed in specially prepared boxes. The customers should keep the boxes until the end of the festival for the shipments to be returned in the same way to the addresses indicated by each recipient. The standard box dimensions are 56x40x34. If any of the things slightly exceed the size of the box, they will be shipped unboxed, after being handled accordingly. The Eksprespasts shipping price to and from Positivus festival venue will be EUR 3 one way within Latvia; in order for the shipment to be delivered to the festival area the next day, it should be dropped off at the post office before deadline, which is different for each office. The list of the 33 post offices of Latvijas Pasts which offer to send personal belongings to Positivus festival venue, as well as the deadlines by which the belongings should be dropped off for the next day delivery to the venue can be viewed here.

 

The Eksprespasts offices will be operating in two locations of the festival: near the tent camping site and on the grounds of the festival. Visitors of the festival will be able to receive and send personal belongings in the office located near the camping site. Shipments will be issued upon presentation of an identity document. Deliveries back home will start on July 22. In the post office situated on the grounds of the festival, visitors will have the opportunity to send postcards, letters and Eksprespasts shipments to recipients in Latvia and abroad.

Positivus visitors will get a chance to send the ​​special postcards made in honor of the festival not only to their friends and acquaintances, but also to the artists of the festival. Eksprespasts will deliver all postcards dedicated to the participants of Positivus while the festival is running. Positivus festival has been assigned a unique zip code LV-4099, and the seal with this code will be put on all mail sent from the post office of the festival.

More information on Eksprespasts services offered during Positivus festival, post offices and deadlines for dispatching the shipments in order for them to reach the venue of the festival on time can be found here.

About SJSC Latvijas Pasts

Latvijas Pasts ensures the widest availability of postal services throughout Latvia by maintaining more than 600 post offices. The primary function of the company is provision of the universal postal service; Latvijas Pasts also provides commercial transport, express mail, payment, press subscription, retail and philatelic services. Latvijas Pasts is a wholly State-owned company with more than 4,000 employees. The quality measurements of Latvijas Pasts domestic mail deliveries are regularly conducted by TNS Latvia, one of the leading market, social and media research agencies in Latvia. In turn, the quality measurements of the cross-border deliveries are provided within the framework of the International Post Corporation through the intermediary of the research companies TNS, Ipsos and Quotas.

Additional information:
Agija Tērauda,
Public Relations Specialist
Phone: +371 67608506
E-mail: agija.terauda@pasts.lv
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