Mother’s Day postcard sending campaign of Latvijas Pasts is included in the Corporate Social Responsibility Best Practices Compilation Brochure of PostEurop

04.07.2017

The traditional Mother’s Day postcard sending campaign of Latvijas Pasts, which has been organised in social networks since 2011, is included in the postal sector’s Corporate Social Responsibility Best Practices Compilation Brochure 2013-2016 made by PostEurop, the association of European postal operators. The Mother’s Day postcard sending campaign is the first and still the most popular campaign of Latvijas Pasts held by the company in social networks, and the number of users participating in it increases every year.

In the search for an innovative way to combine the traditional field of postal activities – delivery of real items - with the habits of the young and socially active audience using the virtual environment for daily communication, Latvijas Pasts launched the Mother's Day postcard sending campaigns in social networks in 2011.

Within these campaigns any user of Facebook and Twitter can log in with their account on the website http://www.nosutipastkarti.lv/ and select postcards of special design for sending free of charge in order to greet their mothers, grandmothers, aunts or girlfriends on Mother’s Day. The properly completed postcards are delivered to the addressees within Latvia by Mother’s Day.

Assessing the activities of postal sector companies in the field of corporate social responsibility in the period from 2013 to 2016, PostEurop, the association of European postal operators, has recognised the Mother's Day postcard sending campaign of Latvijas Pasts as an example of good practice and included it in a special compilation brochure featuring various activities of postal companies from other countries.

Mārcis Vilcāns, Chairman of the Board of Latvijas Pasts, points out: “In the era of modern technology, receiving a real postcard has become a kind of exclusive gift, so we try to change it with our Mother’s day postcard sending campaigns, enabling everyone interested to greet a loved one and showing that the centuries-old tradition fits perfectly well in the internet environment, complementing it.”

The Mother's Day postcard sending campaign gained public attention already during the first activity in 2011, when nearly 5,000 social network users filled in 6,500 greetings postcards. Meanwhile, a total of 36,000 Mother’s Day postcards were sent within the most recent postcard sending campaign in 2017.

Latvijas Pasts holds the Mother's Day postcard sending campaign together with the agency Click/Grizzly Riga.

PostEurop was established in 1993 and currently comprises 52 members in 49 European countries.

The Corporate Social Responsibility Best Practices Compilation Brochure of PostEurop is available 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 Kantar TNS, 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 Kantar 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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