Traditional subscription campaign starts – Latvijas Pasts offers subscription to 755 periodicals in 2020

02.10.2019

Traditional subscription campaign starts – Latvijas Pasts offers subscription to 755 periodicals in 2020

The traditional next year’s subscription campaign opens at Latvijas Pasts on the 1st of October 2019 and will continue until the end of the year. During the campaign Latvijas Pasts offers subscription to any of a total of 755 Latvian and foreign periodicals in 2020, which is a little more than a year earlier, when 749 different press titles were offered for subscription. The most convenient and quickest way to subscribe to press is through the website www.abone.lv, as well as in any of the post offices, from a postman or by calling the information lines of Latvijas Pasts on +371 67008001 or +371 27008001.

As every year, this year the traditional subscription campaign of Latvijas Pasts for the next year also begins on the 1st of October, offering customers to subscribe to any of the 755 periodicals of their choice – newspapers and magazines published in Latvia or abroad. Among them are 299 Latvian periodicals: 110 newspapers and 189 magazines. This year the number of Latvian newspapers and magazines included in the subscription catalogue is by nine more than a year ago, when it was 290 titles.

The number of periodicals offered for subscription has been growing for several years now: for example, 722 press titles were available for the 2018 subscription, while their number in 2019 increased to 749, and the subscription offer for 2020 has also been expanded.

The list of the periodicals offered for subscription at Latvijas Pasts is available on the e-subscription website of Latvijas Pasts www.abone.lv or in the Newspaper and Magazine Subscription Catalogue 2019 that is available in all of the 615 post offices and has been delivered to the letter-boxes of the customers who have subscribed to any periodicals during the last two years. 

Subscription to Latvian press is available from the 1st of October to the 23rd of December through www.abone.lv, in all post offices and from a postman. From the 1st of October to the 18th of December newspapers and magazines issued in Latvia can also be subscribed to by calling the information lines of Latvijas Pasts on +371 67008001 or +371 27008001. 

Foreign press can be subscribed to in any post office, from a postman or through www.abone.lv from the 1st of October to the 15th of December, and subscription by calling +371 67008001 or +371 27008001 is possible from the 1st of October to the 12th of December. 

Precise subscription deadlines are also given on www.abone.lv, and they can be checked in any post office.

A total of 430,823 print media subscriptions were taken out for press deliveries by Latvijas Pasts in 2019, and this is by nearly 18,139 subscriptions more than in 2018.

 

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 3,800 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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