This week’s bulletin contains the latest information about China, Greece, Italy, Morocco.
China, Hong Kong
Start date: Since 7 September 2023
Incident: Extreme weather conditions
Hong Kong Post, the People’s Republic of China’s designated operator for Hong Kong, inform of the extreme weather conditions across Hong Kong, including the black rainstorm and flooding warning, since the evening of 7 September 2023. This situation is affecting the processing and conveyance of all inward, outward and local mail. As a consequence,
quality of service is affected, including for inbound and outbound EMS, air parcels and registered airmail.
Greece
Start date: Since 5 September 2023
Incident: Heavy rainstorms, flooding and landslides affecting operations
Hellenic Post ELTA (GR), Since Tuesday 5/9/2023 the GR territory has been hit by heavy rainstorms, flooding and landslides which has affected many areas especially in Central and North Greece.
As a consequence many domestic operations of Hellenic Post (collection, transportation and delivery) have been affected and prevented the operations to run as normal. The transportation and processing of inbound and outbound mail (letter-post, parcel-post and EMS items) are affected and, consequently, delays are to be expected in the delivery of mail throughout Greece.
Italy
Start date: Since 8 September 2023
Incident: Backlog of packets and parcels
Poste Italiane, informs that there is a backlog for clearance of packets and parcels owing to an issue with the national customs IT system. The backlog is also causing capacity issues in the warehouse and is therefore also affecting low-value items (value below 150 EUR), including items with IOSS (Import One Stop Shop) numbers. Poste Italiane is taking all necessary measures to solve the above issues in conjunction with the senior management of the customs administration and IT services, and will provide regular updates on the situation with a view to resolving it as quickly as possible.
Inbound products from EU countries are not affected and are being processed as per normal operations.
Morocco
Start date: Since 8 September 2023
Incident: Earthquake struck the Marrakesh and Agadir regions
Morocco, Poste Maroc, informs that an earthquake struck the Marrakesh and Agadir regions on Friday, 8 September 2023. The resulting damage to physical infrastructures has affected postal operations in these two regions. Delays are being seen in the processing and delivery of letter-post, parcel-post and EMS items.
The affected postcode areas are:
35062 46000
40022 46010
40030 46020
40040 46050
40050 46053
40065 46100
40070 46150
40080 46300
40090 46999
40100 47050
40140 47900
40150 65800
40160 80000
40253 80010
40300 80020
40999 80040
41000 80060
41050 80070
41152 80090
41202 80100
42050 80650
42051 80652
42102 81000
42103 81006
42112 81010
42122 81050
42152 82000
42174 82010
42202 83000
42252 83036
42302 83052
42303 83074
42312 83202
42353 83300
42402 83325
42452 83332
43000 83350
43075 83500
43102 83522
43124 84000
43150 84100
43252 84150
43303 85000
43350 85200
43402 85352
43450 85450
44000 85550
45000 86150
45010 86199
45150 86350
45200 86356
45253 86360
45502 87052
45800 87100
45852 87200
87252
87274
87452
