Post office transformation in Lithuania
Ian Kerr
Lietuvos paštas (Lithuanian Post) is continuing its post office modernisation programme. (Click here for a previous Lithuanian post office upgrade.)
The Lithuanian postal operator is renewing 41 post offices under this current transformation programme, with more post offices around the capital earmarked for a fresh look in 2020.
This week a new-look post office opened at Totorių g. 8 in Vilnius. (Photos below.) Many of its features will be familiar to those of us in the post office world: a fresh counter with four serving positions (without counter-to-ceiling security screens), an electronic queuing system, a non-postal complementary retail range, and racks for storing parcels awaiting customer collection.
The new post office also hosts a sorting hub for letter and parcel delivery. Posties from three other Lietuvos paštas offices will now work out of this one premises.
This particular post office branch was previously located in a nearby historic building, and had been considered the central post office for Vilnius. The building is too big for modern post office needs, so a new location had to be found.
The building that hosts the new post office was formerly the site for a supermarket – which means convenient parking for customers and space for sorting staff.
Opening hours will be 9am to 7pm weekdays, and 9am to 2pm Saturdays.
And yes, a bank of LP Express parcel lockers will soon be installed near the post office!
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