In connection with the suspension of international flights, the receipt of postal parcels was stopped, Moldova’s Post Office has said. Even if the authorities assure that the postal parcels are not a source of infection with COVID-19, Moldova’s Post Office informs the customers that the volume of international postal items accumulated from all over Moldova could not be dispatched.

It was thus decided to store the collected parcels in the storerooms of the Mail Processing and Transportation Center for an indefinite period of time. The customers will be additionally informed when the parcel distribution service is resumed through the website of Moldova’s Post Office or by a mail to the addressee’s cellphone.

Viorica Podoleanu, who is in charge of relations with the mass media at Moldova’s Post Office, has told IPN that the old stores of postal parcels that weren’t distributed to customers will be processed and then distributed.

Viorica Podoleanu noted that the post offices in Chisinau work as usual, but the offices located in buildings of local public authorities or whose chiefs or employees had symptoms of viral infections or came in touch with relatives who came from abroad stopped worked. Measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 were taken at all post offices. There were purchased protective equipment (masks and gloves) and recipients with disinfecting gel. All the customers are asked to disinfect the hands and the row of clients is fluidized.

Earlier, Moldova’s Post Office warned that the receipt of internal postal items such as postcards, letters and parcels is suspended as of March 17 in a move to prevent the spread of COVID-19.