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10.05.2019
Latvijas Pasts is holding a regular meeting of Latvian postcard senders and participants of the international Postcrossing movement, presenting a personalised stamp and postcard with the spring vibes specially created for this event and bringing the experience of the postcard advertising agency Bad dog in making attractive postcards to the attention of the participants. The event will take place in NicePlace Telpa at 21a K.Barona Street (courtyard), Riga at 4 PM on the 16th of May 2019.
Latvijas Pasts traditionally brings together postcard sending enthusiasts and participants of the international Postcrossing movement to promote the popularity of sending postcards, while attracting the attention of young people and collectors, as well as to provide insight into the current developments of the company’s activities.
For this meeting Latvijas Pasts has also arranged a special spring design postcard and a personalised stamp, as well as the opportunity to send one’s message to the Postcrossing participants in other countries. Meanwhile Māris Jansons, the manager of the postcard advertising agency Bad dog, will tell the participants about his long-standing experience in creating interesting postcards and offer them the opportunity to become the owners of the postcards that are no longer available anywhere else free of charge.
As usual, the meeting will take place in a creative atmosphere, inviting everyone who likes to send and receive postcards from around the world to join in.
Sending postcards using the website www.postcrossing.com as a base platform is becoming increasingly popular around the world and also in Latvia from year to year. Today the Postcrossing movement involves almost 764,500 people from more than 215 countries of the world. Residents of Latvia are also active postcrossers – their number is over 3,330 people who have sent approximately 305,800 postcards altogether. This means that Latvia is ranked 27th in the world in terms of the number of cards sent within the project.
A new participant can send his or her first postcard by getting registered on the website www.postcrossing.com and receiving a postal address. The sender can be rest assured that he or she will get at least one postcard in return from a postcrosser who, perhaps, lives not just in a different country, but on a different continent. When the postcard has been received, it should be registered on www.postcrossing.com, and the search for the next pen pal can begin.
Postcard sending enthusiasts and members of the global Postcrossing movement at Latvijas Pasts have been brought together since 2011, and this will be the 15th time they meet. Latvijas Pasts has also been a participant of the Postcrossing movement since 2010 – part of the nearly 800 postcards received can be viewed here.
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 4,000 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 Danielsone | Senior Public Relations Project Manager
Phone: +371 67608504
E-mail: pr@pasts.lv; vineta.danielsone@pasts.lv
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