Some post offices will be open during the year-end holidays; pensions and benefits will be paid on an earlier date

27.12.2019

Only some post offices in the largest shopping centres will be open during the year-end holidays on the 24^th, 25^th, 26^th and 31^st of December 2019. The 1^st of January 2020 will be a free day for all post offices. Pensions and benefits scheduled for the 24^th of December will be paid on the 23^rd of December. The last day for delivery of items before Christmas is the 23^rd of December and for delivery before New Year’s Eve – the 30^th of December. 

Only some post offices in the shopping centres of major cities will be open during the public holidays on the 24^th, 25^th, 26^th and 31^st of December. The Greeting House in the Dome Square will be open until the 31^st of December, and it will welcome visitors from 10 AM to 8 PM Sundays to Thursdays, from 10 AM to 10 PM Fridays and Saturdays and from 10 AM to 1 PM on the last day of the year. 

All Latvijas Pasts post offices will be closed for the holiday on the 1st of January 2020, and on the 2^nd of January they will be working in accordance with the Thursday schedule of each post office.

A detailed list of the post offices to be open in Riga, Mārupe, Daugavpils, Jelgava, Jēkabpils and Liepāja during the public holidays and their opening hours are available here.

Pensions and benefits to be received by customers at their place of residence on the 24^th of December will be delivered and paid on the 23^rd of December. 

The last day for delivery of items before Christmas is the 23^rd of December and for delivery before the turn of the year – the 30^th of December.

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 over 3,500 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
E-mail: pr@pasts.lv; vineta.danielsone@pasts.lv
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