Post offices will be closed during the Easter holidays, but delivery of items will be available via parcel lockers; pensions and benefits will be paid at an earlier date

02.04.2020

Latvijas Pasts post offices will be closed during the Easter public holidays from the 10^th to the 13^th of April 2020, but delivery of items will be available via Latvijas Pasts parcel lockers. 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 period from the 10^th to the 13^th of April will receive the money at an earlier date. 

As the post offices which are traditionally open on public holidays and weekends are located in shopping centres closed to visitors due to the state of emergency declared in the country, no Latvijas Pasts post office will be open during the Easter holidays: Good Friday on the 10^th of April, Saturday, the 11^th of April, Easter Sunday on the 12^th of April and Easter Monday on the 13^th of April. Information on changes in the opening hours is also available on the spot in all post offices.

Dozens of Latvijas Pasts parcel lockers will be available for collecting items throughout the country according to the opening hours of shopping centres during the holiday period. Information about Latvijas Pasts parcel locker network is available here. 

Pensions and benefits granted by the VSAA which are to be received by customers at their place of residence on the 6^th and 7^th of April will be delivered and paid to them on the 6^th of April, and the 7^th of April will be the payout day for those customers whose pensions and benefits are scheduled for the 8^th and 9^th of April. Pensions and benefits to be received on the 10^th and 11^th of April will be delivered on the 8^th of April, while pensions and benefits scheduled for the 12^th and 13^th of April will be paid on the 9^th of April.

Please keep in mind that when receiving the services of a postman at the place of residence, the security measures established in the country must also be observed. We urge you to maintain a distance, not to shake hands and not to delay the postman. For their part, postmen will wear gloves, use individual disinfectants and maintain a safe distance.

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 3,400 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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