Preparing for an increase in the number of items at the end of the year, 32 post offices are extending their opening hours in November and December

01.11.2016

Preparing for an increase in the number of items at the end of the year, a total of 32 Latvijas Pasts post offices in Riga and the surrounding municipalities, as well as in Latgale region are extending their opening hours for two months starting from November. Most post offices will have their opening hours extended by a few hours on Saturdays and some post offices in Riga will work longer also on workdays. 

In order to attend to customers more efficiently and provide faster processing of postal services, the busiest post offices in Riga, Riga region and Latgale will have their opening hours extended by a few hours mainly on Saturdays in November and December. Already in November the Saturday opening hours will be extended by three hours in five post offices and by one hour in two post offices in Riga and surroundings, while one of the post offices, No. 21, will work one hour longer also every workday.

In turn, in December a total of 21 post offices in Riga and Riga region will extend their Saturday working time by three hours and two post offices – by one hour, while the opening hours of three post offices will be longer by one hour also on workdays.

The eight post offices in the largest cities of Latgale – Balvi, Daugavpils, Krāslava, Ludza, Preiļi and Rēzekne – will have their Saturday opening hours extended by two hours in November and December.

Analysing the current situation regarding the acceptance and delivery of items, as well as the provision of other postal services in the busiest months at the end of the year, Latvijas Pasts will assess the need for additional changes aimed at improving the customer service in the post offices.

A detailed list of all the post offices with the extended opening hours in November and December 2016 can be viewed 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 4,200 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:
Gundega Vārpa
Head of External Communications 
Phone: +371 67608505
E-mail: pr@pasts.lv; gundega.varpa@pasts.lv
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