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01.10.2018
To celebrate the World Post Day, Latvijas Pasts is holding a traditional meeting of Latvian postcard senders and participants of the international movement Postcrossing. During the event they are going to meet one of the best known Latvian photographers Jānis Deinats, the collaboration with whom has led to the release of the book 100 Postal Stops on the centenary of Latvijas Pasts. During the meeting the postcrossers will have a chance to send postcards with images of photos by J.Deinats. The event is scheduled to take place in NicePlace Telpa at 21a K.Barona Street (courtyard), Riga at 3 PM on the 5th of October 2018.
The World Post Day on the 9th of October is celebrated in all the 192 member countries of the Universal Postal Union, including Latvia. This day was declared by the Universal Postal Congress held in Tokyo in 1969 to mark the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union in 1874. The sector’s holiday is celebrated with the purpose to bring awareness to the post’s role in the everyday lives of people and businesses, as well as its contribution to global social and economic development.
During this period Latvijas Pasts traditionally brings together postcard sending enthusiasts, particularly attracting the attention of young people and collectors and promoting the practice of sending postcards, as well as providing greater insight into the activities of Latvijas Pasts.
As usual, the meeting will take place in a creative atmosphere, inviting everyone who likes to send and receive postcards from around the world to join in. For this meeting Latvijas Pasts has once again prepared postcards of a special design, which every participant of this meeting will be able to send to a pen pal in any country of the world free of charge.
The participants of the event will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the narrative of the talented photographer J.Deinats about how the photos for the Latvijas Pasts book 100 Postal Stops came into being. The book is a visual story of the traces left by the postal industry in the landscape of Latvia over the hundred years – the letter-boxes that have linked every farmstead with the possibility of receiving items from around the world.
Participation in the international movement Postcrossing can make the letter-box of each of its activists full of true surprises. A new participant can send his or her first postcard by getting registered on the website www.postcrossing.com and receiving the postal address of an unknown addressee. When sending the card, the sender can be sure that he or she will get at least one postcard in return from a postcrosser who, perhaps, lives halfway around the world. When the postcard has been received, it should be registered on www.postcrossing.com, and the search for the next pen pal can begin.
The international Postcrossing movement involves over 740,000 people from more than 200 countries of the world. Residents of Latvia are also active postcrossers –their number today is over 3,240 people who have sent approximately 284,330 postcards. This means that Latvia is ranked 27th in the world in terms of the number of cards sent within the project.
Postcard sending enthusiasts and members of the global Postcrossing movement at Latvijas Pasts have been brought together since 2011, and this will be the 14th time they meet. Latvijas Pasts has also been a participant of the Postcrossing movement since 2010 – part of the postcards received 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 around 4,000 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:
Vineta Danielsone | Public Relations Specialist
Phone: +371 67608504
E-mail: pr@pasts.lv; vineta.danielsone@pasts.lv
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