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A detailed overview of the availability of all services during (cantonal) public holidays:
2024
Public holiday | Date | Order fulfilment | Customer Service | Lab Luzern | Lab Lausanne | Swiss Post 1) |
New Year's Day | 01.01 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Berchtoldstag | 02.01 | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | 🤷 2) |
Epiphany | 06.01 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 🤷 2) |
Republic Day | 01.03 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 3) |
St. Joseph's Day | 19.03 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Good Friday | 29.03 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ 4) |
Easter Monday | 01.04 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ 5) |
Näfelser Fahrt | 04.04 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 6) |
Sechseläuten | 15.04 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Labour Day | 01.05 | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | 🤷 2) |
Ascension | 09.05 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Whit Monday | 20.05 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ 5) |
Corpus Christi | 30.05 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | 🤷 2) |
Independence of Jura | 23.06 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 7) |
St. Peter & St. Paul | 29.06 | ❌ | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ 8) |
Swiss National Day | 01.08 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Assumption Day | 15.08 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | 🤷 2) |
Jeûne Genevois | 05.09 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 9) |
Knabenschiessen | 09.09 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Jeûne Fédéral | 16.09 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ 10) |
St. Mauritius | 22.09 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 11) |
Bruder Klaus | 29.09 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 12) |
St. Leodegar | 02.10 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
All Saints | 01.11 | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | 🤷 2) |
Immaculate Conception | 08.12 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | 🤷 2) |
Christmas Eve | 24.12 | 🕘 13) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 6) |
Christmas | 25.12 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Stephanstag | 26.12 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | 🤷 2) |
New Year's Eve | 31.12 | 🕘 13) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 6) |
1) No delivery on public holidays. Some local Post offices have Sunday opening hours on public holidays. Mailboxes that are emptied on Sundays are usually emptied on public holidays as well. More details: https://places.post.ch/location-search.
2) Differs per canton
3) Except for Neuchâtel (Neuenburg)
4) Normal services in Ticino (Tessin) and Valais (Wallis)
5) Normal services in Neuchâtel (Neuenburg), Solothurn, Valais (Wallis) & Zug
6) Except for Glarus
7) Except for Jura
8) Except for Grisons (Graubünden) and Ticino (Tessin)
9) Except for Genève (Genf)
10) Except for Vaud (Waadt)
11) Except for Appenzell Innerrhoden
12) Except for Obwalden
13) Only orders placed until 9 AM are shipped