Estonia's postal company "threatens" to open courier service in Latvia
If the Latvian postal company Latvijas Pasts fails to quickly develop its courier postal service network, the Estonian postal company has “threatened” to open its own courier service branches in Latvia, reported Latvijas Pasts.
Temporary CEO at Latvijas Pasts, Gints Skodovs, said that courier services are an opportunity for state postal companies to gain significant additional revenues, but seeing as Latvijas Pasts has not yet developed this sector enough, the situation is slowing development for the postal companies of neighboring Estonia and Lithuania.
Skodovs said that it is crucial for postal companies to offer uniform services across the region, but Latvia is currently a blank space in this sense.
Skodovs said that one of the closets targets in this field for the Latvian postal company would be signing an agreement with the Pan Nordic Logistic courier service network, which already successfully cooperates with estonia and Lithuania, servicing clients on a European scale.
Skodovs said that Latvijas Pasts has much work to do in improving the courier service quality, marketing and accountancy, but said that this sector would be a good way to “settle in the era of electronic media.”
Skodovs also said that Estonia’s courier postal services are three times more developed than Latvia’s, and said it is hard to estimate when Latvia may reach this level.
