Latvijas Pasts ensures deliveries of postal items to the UK with special charter flights

22.12.2020

Latvijas Pasts will ensure an alternative solution for deliveries to the UK and will deliver all items received by Latvijas Pasts to this country using special charter flights. Following the ban on all types of passenger transportation to and from the UK for security reasons until the 1^st of January 2021, Latvijas Pasts will provide other options for arranging the delivery of postal items and is negotiating with the British postal operator Royal Mail on possible delivery of items with these charter flights from the UK to Latvia.

Following the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers to suspend passenger transportation through airports, ports and bus service to and from the UK from the 21^st of December 2020 to the 1^st of January 2021 as part of restrictive measures to mitigate a new strain of coronavirus, the traditional transportation of postal items by passenger aircraft to that country is no longer possible. 

Therefore Latvijas Pasts will provide an opportunity for alternative organisation of item deliveries to the UK and will gradually deliver all items addressed to recipients in that country with special cargo charter flights. At the same time Latvijas Pasts is negotiating with the British postal operator Royal Mail about the possibility of delivering items to recipients in Latvia in this way.  

Due to the expected Brexit, land cargo transportation to that country has been delayed for several weeks, so Latvijas Pasts, like most postal companies around the world, was using passenger aircraft for deliveries during this period. In the new situation Latvijas Pasts will use cargo charter flights to ensure deliveries, which is a more expensive, but currently the only efficient mode of transportation available and it will require investment of additional resources of Latvijas Pasts.  

You can follow the current forecasts of the possibilities of delivery of international postal items to various countries outside Latvia in the section COVID-19 Restrictions on International Postal Items on the website of Latvijas Pasts 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 about 3,200 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
E-mail: pr@pasts.lv; gundega.varpa@pasts.lv
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