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

08.04.2022

Only some post offices in Riga, Daugavpils, Jelgava, Liepāja and Mārupe will be open during the Easter holidays on the 15^th, 17^th and 18^th of April 2022. The 16^th of April will be a working day for those Latvijas Pasts post offices which are normally open on Saturdays, and their opening hours on this day will not change. The customers who get their pensions and benefits granted by the State Social Insurance Agency delivered to their place of residence through the intermediary of Latvijas Pasts with the expected pay-out period from the 12^th to the 18^th of April will receive the money at an earlier date. 

Only some post offices in the largest shopping centres in Riga, Daugavpils, Jelgava, Liepāja and Mārupe will be open during the Easter holidays: Good Friday on the 15^th of April, Easter Sunday on the 17^th of April and Easter Monday on the 18^th of April. A list of the post offices to be open for customers and their opening hours are available here. Information on changes in the opening hours is also available on the spot in all post offices.

Saturday, the 16^th of April, will be a working day for those Latvijas Pasts post offices which are normally open on Saturdays, and their opening hours on this day will not change. 
 
The pensions and benefits paid by the State Social Insurance Agency which are scheduled to be received at places of residence on the 12^th of April will be delivered and paid to the customers on the 11^th of April; the 12^th of April will be the payday for those customers whose pensions and benefits are scheduled to be delivered to their places of residence on the 13^th and 14^th of April. Home deliveries of pensions and benefits to be received on the 15^th and 16^th of April will take place on the 13^th of April, while pensions and benefits scheduled for the 17^th and 18^th of April will be paid at places of residence on the 14^th of April. 

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 3,000 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 Kļaviņa | Senior Public Relations Project Manager
E-mail: pr@pasts.lv, vineta.klavina@pasts.lv 
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