Vote for the best postman and post office operator of 2022

10.10.2022

This is the 12^th time that Latvijas Pasts has launched the traditional contest Mans pastnieks (My Postman) to identify and pay tribute to the best postman and post office operator from each region of Latvia. You can thank your most helpful, reliable and knowledgeable postal employee by filling out and sending the printed contest questionnaire free of charge or submitting your vote online at http://anketa.pasts.lv/. The post-paid printed questionnaires were inserted into all the Newspaper and Magazine Subscription Catalogues 2023 delivered free of charge to the letter-boxes of readers who had subscribed to any periodicals during the last year. Voting within the contest My Postman is open until the 31^st of January 2023. 

The global postal industry employs around 5.3 million workers, who reach people even in the most remote parts of the world. As a result of recent events in the world, the public’s perception of the postal industry as a whole has changed: at a time when many countries had to give up public life because of the pandemic, postal establishments proved themselves as essential service providers, ensuring the connection of people and companies with the services they needed.

Latvijas Pasts employs about 3,000 people in about 150 different occupations, with the biggest share – around 70% – made up of postmen and post office employees. The company provides postal services, in addition to providing commercial transport, express mail, payment, press, retail and philatelic services. Every working day, under any conditions, our employees deliver thousands of periodicals by subscription, letters and small packages; customers are served at postal service points, and various other services are provided even in the most remote Latvian rural homesteads. In rural areas, postmen are often the only link to the outside world for senior citizens, so they value the postman’s work most.

The contest My Postman is traditionally organised to vote for the best postman through a questionnaire. At the same time, it is an opportunity to thank your postman or post office employee for their important work.

At the beginning of October, the printed questionnaires for the contest were sent out together with the Newspaper and Magazine Subscription Catalogues 2023, which were delivered free of charge to the letter-boxes of the customers who had subscribed to any periodicals during the last year. The filled questionnaires should be dropped in any Latvijas Pasts letter-box or dropped off at a post office by the 31^st of January 2023. The questionnaires are post-paid. The contest questionnaire may be filled in and submitted online until the mentioned deadline here. 

The best postman and post office operator of 2022 will be identified within the contest My Postman in each region of Latvia: Kurzeme, Latgale, Vidzeme, Zemgale and Riga. The postmen and post office operators with the highest assessment rates given by the residents will receive valuable prizes from Latvijas Pasts.

This is the 12^th time that Latvijas Pasts has organised the contest My Postman. A total of 820 Latvijas Pasts postmen and post office operators were proposed for the best employee nomination within the contest My Postman 2021 and more than 11,300 customers’ questionnaires were received for them. 

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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