Latvijas Pasts will be closed for holidays on the 1st, 4th and 5th of May; only some post offices will be open

26.04.2023

On the 1^st, 4^th and 5^th of May 2023, which are the public holidays, only some Latvijas Pasts post offices in the largest shopping centres will provide services. On Saturday, the 20^th of May, which is a transferred working day, post offices will be working in accordance with the regular Friday schedule – postal items will also be delivered on this day. The customers who get their benefits and pensions granted by the State Social Insurance Agency delivered to their places of residence through the intermediary of Latvijas Pasts with the expected pay-out period from the 5^th to 7^th of May will receive the money at an earlier date. Dozens of Latvijas Pasts parcel lockers can be used for collecting and sending items during the holidays.  

Only some post offices in the shopping centres of the major Latvian cities will be open during the public holidays: Labour Day on the 1^st of May, the Day of Restoration of Independence of the Republic of Latvia on the 4^th of May and on the 5^th of May, which is the additional day off. The opening hours of these post offices will be adjusted to the opening hours of the relevant shopping centres. The list of the post offices to be open during the aforementioned days and their opening hours are available here.

To allow people to enjoy several free days in a row, one working day in May – Friday, the 5^th of May – has been switched with Saturday, the 20^th of May. On Saturday, the 20^th of May, Latvijas Pasts will be open according to Friday schedule and will deliver postal items to residents.

Pensions and benefits granted by the State Social Insurance Agency which are to be received by customers at their places of residence on the 5^th and the 6^th of May will be delivered and paid on the 2^nd of May, and the 3^rd of May will be the payday for those customers at their places of residence whose pensions and benefits are scheduled for the 7^th of May.

Dozens of Latvijas Pasts parcel lockers can be used for collecting and sending items throughout the country during the holiday period. Information about Latvijas Pasts parcel locker network is available here.

Happy holidays!      

About SJSC Latvijas Pasts

Latvijas Pasts ensures the widest availability of postal services throughout Latvia by maintaining more than 600 post offices and an extensive network of indoor and outdoor parcel lockers. The primary function of the company is provision of the universal postal service; Latvijas Pasts also provides commercial transport, express mail, parcel locker, payment, press subscription, retail and philatelic services. Latvijas Pasts is a wholly State-owned company with around 2,700 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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