Some post offices in shopping centres will be open during the public holidays; the 5th of May will be a regular working day at Latvijas Pasts

26.04.2017

Only some Latvijas Pasts post offices in the largest shopping centres will provide postal services during the public holidays of 2017 on the 1^st and 4^th of May. On the 5^th of May all post offices will be working in accordance with the regular Friday schedule. The customers who get their benefits and pensions granted by the State Social Insurance Agency (VSAA) delivered to their place of residence through the intermediary of Latvijas Pasts with the expected pay-out period from the 5^th to the 7^th of May will receive the money at an earlier date. 

Only some post offices in the largest shopping centres will be open during the public holidays: Labour Day on the 1^st of May and Restoration of Independence Day on the 4^th of May. The list of the post offices to be open during the public holidays is available here. Detailed information on changes in the opening hours will also be available on the spot in all post offices.

Latvijas Pasts will also be working on the ^5th of May: on this day the post offices will be open and periodicals and postal items will be delivered to customers. On the 13^th of May Latvijas Pasts will be working in accordance with the regular Saturday schedule.

Pensions and benefits granted by the VSAA as monthly payments that are to be received by the customers at their place of residence on the 6^th of May will be delivered on the 3^rd of May, and the 5^th of May will be the pay-out day for those customers whose pensions and benefits are to be paid on the 5^th and 7^th of May. 

Western Union money transfer services during the public holidays will be provided in most of the post offices that will be open.

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:
Vineta Danielsone
Public Relations Specialist
Phone: +371 67608504
E-pasts: pr@pasts.lv; vineta.danielsone@pasts.lv
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