Posti stops delivering normal mails on Tuesdays

National postal operator Posti on Tuesday announced that it has stopped normal mail delivery on Tuesdays, national broadcaster Yle reported.

Posti took the decision following amendment in the Postal Act that took place on 21 June.

Few special deliveries, however, will continue on Tuesdays.

From now, the company will discontinue Tuesday deliveries of letters, advertisements and magazines but will continue deliveries of some newspapers, packages, express mail and laboratory shipments, said the Yle report.

Posti said that generally the number of regular mails is lower in Tuesday in the week and the authority decided to reduce the delivery to cut distribution costs.

The parliament on June 21 amended the Postal Act with the provision for allowing Posti, the postal and logistic services operator in the country to reduce the mail deliveries to three times a week in some urban areas.

According to the new law, Posti will be allowed to make exceptions to its previous requirement of five-days-per-week deliveries in urban areas where morning newspaper deliveries are carried out.

The delivery services, however, could be conducted by outsourcing other companies.

The amendment will impact significantly the people living in the Archipelago.