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23.11.2016
On the eve of the first Advent Latvijas Pasts releases two new stamps in the series Christmas so that everyone can have a chance to send their warm greetings for the year-end holidays, Christmas and New Year, in good time. The first day cancellation of the stamps is scheduled to take place in Riga post office No. 50 located in the shopping centre Origo, 2 Stacijas laukums, on Friday, the 25th of November, from 8 AM to 7 PM.
Latvijas Pasts has issued the most festive and popular postage stamps of the year, which have received special affection of the customers when paying for postal items to countries far and near during the period of Christmas and New Year. The newly released stamps in the series Christmas have been designed by the well-known Latvian artist and illustrator of children’s books Anita Paegle.
Each of the stamps has a different face value and print run. The stamp with a face value of €0.50 is suitable for sending a regular Class B letter within Latvia and its print run is one million copies. In turn, the stamp with a face value of €0.78 corresponds to the cost of sending a regular Class A letter within the European Union or a regular Class B letter to any country of the world outside the European Union, and its print run is 150,000 copies. The print run of the special cover is 1,500 copies.
The newest stamps and the special cover in the series Christmas can be viewed here.
Latvijas Pasts launched the Christmas series of stamps in 1994, and so far approximately 60 Christmas stamps have been released. The stamps in the series Christmas that have been issued to date are available for viewing here.
The next philatelic release is scheduled for the 12th of December.
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 more than 4,200 employees. The quality measurements of Latvijas Pasts domestic mail deliveries are regularly conducted by TNS Latvia, 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 TNS, Ipsos and Quotas.
Additional information:
Vineta Danielsone
Public Relations Specialist
Phone: +371 67608504
E-mail: pr@pasts.lv; vineta.danielsone@pasts.lv
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