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Christmas is still a couple of months away, but the new stamps inspired by Christmas songs to accompany your holiday greetings launch tomorrow. Eesti Posts’ member of the management board and head of postal business Kaida Kauler encourages everyone to gather everything necessary for sending holiday cards early so that during the peak season you only need to post the cards. Read more »

The recently published BRAND CAPITAL most loved Baltic brands survey assessed Omniva as the fastest growing brand in the Baltic States. We also reached the top three most esteemed brands. Read more »

If you want faster shipping, avoid free shipping. Read more »

To improve the postal service, Eesti Post is changing some postal codes in Tallinn and Pärnu cities starting tomorrow. The change concerns both those living in these areas as well as those sending letters and parcels to these areas. Read more »

At its meeting held on 24 September, the Supervisory Board of Omniva (AS Eesti Post) decided to dismiss Ansi Arumeel, Chairman of the Management Board of Omniva. Read more »

Kristi Unt, Head of Operations at Omniva, explains what the company is doing differently this season to cope with seemingly ever-growing volumes. According to Unt, the peak season of parcel delivery has already begun. Read more »

The six-month turnover of the Omniva Baltic parcel business formed a record 49% of the group’s turnover in the first six months of 2020 (37% in the same period in 2019). The six-month turnover of the Latvian and Lithuanian subsidiaries made up more than a fifth of the entire group’s turnover this year. Read more »

On the 100th anniversary of the first Estonian Olympic victory, Eesti Post is releasing a pure silver postage stamp depicting the country’s first Olympic champion: Alfred Neuland, the winner of the gold medal in weightlifting at the Antwerp Olympic Games. This year also marks 125 years since the hero's birth. Read more »

The company will grow the parcel machine network by 10% in the Baltics this year. The majority of the new lockers will be added in Lithuania; in Estonia, new lockers will be added to more popular machines. Read more »

Within in the first seven months of 2020, 92% more parcels were retrieved from Omniva parcel machines than over the same period last year. Growth in parcel volumes is primarily thanks to the increasing popularity of e-commerce and parcel machines located outside. Read more »

To improve the postal service, Eesti Post is changing some postal codes in Tallinn and Pärnu cities from 1 October. In Tallinn, certain postal codes in the City Centre, Northern Tallinn, Kristiine, Haabersti, Mustamäe, Lasnamäe, Pirita and Nõmme districts will change. In Pärnu, the postal codes of some addresses located on Kodara, Savi, Supeluse and Villa streets will change. Read more »

Due to the Force majeure circumstances and unstable flight connections, export of parcels to most countries is taking longer than usual. We are working on finding alternative solutions (incl. substituting flight connections with road transport), but at the moment extended delivery times are to be considered. Read more »

To celebrate the first ever WRC event held in Estonia, Eesti Post releases a rally-themed WRC Rally Estonia stamp and a first day envelope. The stamp will be launched on the first rally day, 4 September, and from 30 July the stamp and envelope can be pre-ordered from the e-store at pood.omniva.ee. The pre-ordered products will be shipped to the buyers from 4 September. Read more »

From June 1 of this year, Omniva Latvija’s office and sorting centre are located in the most energy-efficient logistics centre in Latvia – Green Park in Mārupe. The new premises house the most modern parcel sorting centre in Latvia, and Omniva has invested 350 000 euros into an automated parcel sorting machine, which will allow to improve the parcel sorting efficiency by 40%. Read more »

The first six months of 2020 were the most successful of the past five years for Omniva – e-commerce gained momentum and clients’ preference for parcel machines increased the operating revenue and significantly impacted profitability. Read more »

Hrvatska pošta entered into an agreement with Estonian state-owned company Omniva for the use of their parcel locker software. Strategic co-operation will also be launched between the two parties, during which Omniva will advise the establishment and launching of parcel locker network in Croatia. Read more »

A post with pictures of a truck allegedly stolen in Lithuania carrying what seem to be parcels from China is being shared on social media. The post was first shared by an anonymous Lithuanian Facebook account without any additional information and from there it spread across social media in several countries. This is false information and shipments destined to Estonia have not been compromised. Read more »

In the past the acquisition of new stamps has taken place behind the counters of post offices or via online store, however from June people have the opportunity to place a standing order to get new philately products automatically to their personal mailbox. Read more »

Nine people out of ten have received a postal parcel over the past six months, the parcel service market growth potential survey by Kantar Emor reveals. The year before, the number of parcel receivers was a third of the population. The number of courier service users has increased considerably. Read more »

The aim of voting on the best direct mail of the month is to recognise the client and their marketing partner. Eesti Post bases the assessment on outstanding design, distinct message and suitability of the solution for direct mail. More than 70 clients used direct mail in May, sending out 150 different direct mail items. Read more »

The corona crisis brought the regular commerce and e-commerce closer to each other, said head of Omniva parcel business Andre Veskimeister at the web stream focussing on e-commerce. Read more »

On 25 May, Lauri Läheb will start working as Omniva’s Chief Technology Officer and management member. Läheb has led international technology and product development in different companies, including Tallink and Telia Eesti and has experience in start-up and public–private sector digitation collaboration projects. Read more »

A group mailbox is comprised of multiple mailboxes helping the postal courier to deliver mail faster to the people in the area. Until midsummer, you can order a group mailbox for your local community for free. Read more »

From 31 May, letter-sending prices change and more stamps must be put on the envelope when sending a letter. A significant change is also that in case of a letter sent within Estonia, two services are established: letter and express letter. Read more »

Parcels that have been waiting to be picked up at the post offices will be there until Tuesday. Omniva has automatically extended the storage terms of parcels at the post offices until 12 May so people have enough time to pick them up. On 13 May the parcels that have not been picked up over a longer period will be shipped back to the sender. Read more »

The group’s business revenue was 29.8 million euros in three months and business profit was 208,000 euros. The result was affected by the planned cost cuts in the first quarter of 2020 and the e-commerce revenue that grew significantly due to the crisis. Read more »

The prices and standard terms and conditions of the universal postal service will change from 31 May 2020. Two domestic letter services will be available with different speeds (letter and express letter), weight group calculation for postal parcels becomes easier, and the maxi letter and standard parcel services are unified. Read more »

Omniva and Bolt launched a pilot project to test parcel delivery using the ride-hailing platform as couriers. The pilot project will run for two weeks, during which Bolt will deliver parcels from Nurmenuku and Majaka parcel dispatch points in Tallinn. Read more »

Temporary parcel points issue parcels from overfilled parcel machines quickly and contact free. Read more »

Ahto Pärl will start working as the Omniva CFO and member of the board from 20 April 2020. He will be responsible for the sustainable development of the Omniva group’s financial domain across the Baltic States. Read more »

AS Eesti Post confirmed the 2019 financial results at the general meeting held on 6 April 2020. AS Eesti Post group business revenues increased in 2019 by 18.9% compared to 2018, reaching 129.6 million euros. The net loss of the group was 3,711 euros in 2019. Read more »

Due to the spread of the coronavirus many merchants have directed their operations to online stores, which has caused an increase in parcel volumes. According to the head of Omniva’s parcel business, Andre Veskimeister, the parcel machine network is the only supply channel of the company that has not been affected by the state of emergency restrictions. Read more »

Due to extraordinarily large parcel volumes in the machines, Omniva is temporarily distributing parcels from courier vans today at the Viimsi Shopping Centre and Laagri Comarket car parks. In future, such temporary solutions may pop up near other popular parcel machines as well. Read more »

Andre Veskimeister, Head of Parcels Business in Omniva, confirmed that in order to deliver the increasing parcel volumes to customers safely and fast, the company will introduce similar measures Read more »

Eesti Post continues providing postal services at post offices and via self-service channels during the state of emergency; newspapers and letters will reach post boxes as usual. Post offices are open; however, in the state of emergency, the number of people visiting the post office is limited to prevent the infection risk for both clients and our employees. Read more »

Many companies want protect the health of their employees and have therefore reorganized their daily work as teleworking. As a result, Omniva asks all companies working from home offices to redirect their courier packages to parcel machines. Read more »

Since the virus spreads via respiratory droplets most likely from person to person, then shopping online and receiving the goods via unmanned shipping channels, i.e. the parcel machine is significantly safer for people than visiting a shopping mall. Read more »

As of last week, in several regions in China people have been instructed to stay at home at least until 9 February. Therefore, no parcels are being shipped from China during the so-called house arrest period. The virus cannot be spread to Estonia with parcels. Read more »

The United Kingdom is no longer a member of the European Union as of 1 February. The transitional period, which lasts until 31 December 2020, has now started. Everything will remain the same for the people who order and send postal items and they will move as before. Read more »

Last year, Omniva issued a record number of 11.4 million parcels, more than half of which were deliveries from foreign online stores and markets. Read more »

According to the World Health Organization’s data, the virus has the following survival times: 24-48 hours on hard surfaces, 8-12 hours on porous surfaces (clothing, paper) and a maximum of 72 hours on damp surfaces. Read more »

Omniva says the recent days have seen the arrival in Estonia of a large number of international shipments that piled up during the Christmas and New Year period. Each day, about 30,000-40,000 shipments, mainly from China, arrive in Estonia. Read more »

The most popular day for receiving parcels turned out to be 18 December, when nearly 90,000 people received a shipment. Read more »

Council of AS Eesti Post removes management board member and financial segment manager Jaan Sildam. Read more »

In general, fewer letters are sent each year, but Eesti Post says Christmas cards remain popular. To make it easier to send Christmas greetings this year, temporary Christmas card post boxes have been installed in the most frequented post offices as well as in shopping centres. As a new feature this year, Christmas cards can also be mailed aboard trains. Read more »

At the last weekend before Christmas, Omniva will be working practically around the clock but during the holidays (24 to 26 December) and on 1 January, the busy postal workers and couriers will be off duty, which means that there will not be any deliveries to and pickups from parcel machines during this time. Post offices will also be closed on these days. Read more »

Parcel volumes start growing in the logistics world before December and by now, the record volumes are already here. Thanks to expanding the parcel machine network, getting the new logistics centre settled in, planning the labour force and developing the logistics process the record amount of parcels runs through Omniva incredibly smoothly. Read more »

From 12 December, you may meet Santa’s elves aboard Elron trains, from whom you can purchase a Christmas card and with the help of Eesti Post, you can send your warm wishes right from the train. You can send Christmas cards from trains until 21 December. Read more »

The Multimailbox project organised in collaboration with Eesti Post and the event marketing agency Royal Experience, and held within the Let’s Do It community activities day, won first place among low budget events at the global event marketing competition BEA World. Read more »

Omniva, the Estonian Communications and Service Workers Trade Union (ESTAL) and Estonian Transport and Road Workers Trade Union (ETTA) signed an agreement according to which the salary of nearly 1000 front line employees will be raised in 2020. The minimum basic salary will increase by up to 12% and on average 6.2%. Read more »