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The government on Thursday approved state company dividends for 2022 at over €124 million euros.

This Thursday, Omniva, Estonia's universal postal service provider, in collaboration with the Estonian Ornithological Society (EOÜ) is releasing a commemorative 2022 Bird of the Year stamp featuring the Eurasian woodcock.

TALLINN - Estonia's state-held postal company Eesti Post operating under the Omniva brand has announced that its postal and parcel delivery ...

The Social Insurance Board (SKA) has changed the provider of home delivery of pensions in February, but all the contact details of the people provided to the new service provider turned out to be incorrect, meaning the home delivery of pensions has been delayed for several days.

Eesti Post has issued a stamp commemorating the women's Olympic gold medal-winning épée team. This is the eighth stamp created for medal winners.

The new year will bring a radical overhaul in the national post service provided by Eesti Post/Omniva. The changes will include far more automation than previously was the case, with parcel vending machines increasingly replacing post offices. At the same time, human couriers will be available to-order, to replace post boxes.

The state is to more than double support for the delivery of newspapers, magazines and periodicals in remote areas next year, boosting it by €2.75 million and bringing the total subsidy to €4.528 million.

The current organization of the state postal service is unnecessarily costly and unprofitable and should be updated, the National Audit Office (Riigikontroll) finds.

Sunday political talk shows on ERR radio channels discussed rapid economic growth and salary advance, as well as the state of the pandemic in Estonia in light of the new Omicron coronavirus variant.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications is planning to relax universal mail service requirements. Should the regulation be changed, it will allow national mail carrier Eesti Post to optimize its unprofitable mail business by, among other measures, closing post offices.