Latvijas Pasts post offices in shopping centres will be open during the public holidays; pensions and benefits will be paid on an earlier date

26.04.2019

On the 1^st, 4t^h and 6^th of May 2019, which are the public holidays, only some Latvijas Pasts post offices in the largest shopping centres will provide postal services. 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 date on the 5^th and 6^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, the Day of Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia on the 4^th of May and the switched holiday day off on the 6^th of May. The list of the post offices to be open during the public holidays and their opening hours are available here. Information on changes in the opening hours is also available on the spot in all post offices. 

Sunday, the 5^th of May, will be a working day for those Latvijas Pasts post offices which are normally open at weekends and their opening hours will not change on this day, except for Mārupe post office, which will be open from 10 AM am to 6 PM.

Pensions and benefits granted by the VSAA that are to be received by the customers at their places of residence on the 5^th and 6^th of May will be delivered on the 3^rd of May.

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 | Senior Public Relations Project Manager
Phone: +371 67608504
E-mail: pr@pasts.lv; vineta.danielsone@pasts.lv
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