Some post offices will be open on the public holiday after the Song and Dance Festival

07.07.2023

Some post offices in the shopping centres of the largest Latvian cities will be open on Monday, the 10^th of July 2023, which is a public holiday after the Song and Dance Festival this year. The customers who get their benefits and pensions granted by the State Social Insurance Agency (VSAA) delivered to their places of residence through the intermediary of Latvijas Pasts with the expected pay-out period from the 9^th to 10^th of July will receive the money at an earlier date. 

The day after the closing concert of the Song and Dance Festival is a public holiday throughout the country. Postal services will be available on this day in some post offices in the shopping centres of the largest cities – the exact list of the post offices to be open in Riga, Mārupe, Daugavpils, Jelgava, Jēkabpils and Liepāja and their opening hours is available here.

Pensions and benefits paid by the VSAA which are to be delivered to customers at their places of residence on the 9^th and 10^th of July will be delivered and paid to them on the 7^th of July, and the 6th of July will be the payday for those customers whose pensions and benefits are scheduled to be received on the 7^th and 8^th of July. In turn, customers with the expected pay-out days on the 5^th and 6^th of July will receive the money on the 5^th of July.  

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

You can contact Latvijas Pasts Customer Centre with any questions regarding the receipt of postal services by calling +371 67008001 or +371 27008001, writing to info@pasts.lv or via Latvijas Pasts social media profiles.

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 Anna Sarkane | Senior Public Relations Project Manager
E-mail: pr@pasts.lv; vineta_anna.sarkane@pasts.lv

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