Do NOT take your samples on days before a public holiday, to avoid delays.
Click here to find out in which lab your tests are analyzed. A detailed overview of the availability of all services during (cantonal) public holidays:
2025
Public holiday | Date | Order fulfilment | Customer Service | Lab Lucerne | Lab Lausanne | Swiss Post 1) |
New Year's Day | 01.01 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Berchtoldstag | 02.01 | ❌ | ✔️ | ❌ | ❌ | 🤷 2) |
Epiphany | 06.01 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | 🤷 14) |
Republic Day | 01.03 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 3) |
St. Joseph's Day | 19.03 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Näfelser Fahrt | 03.04 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 6) |
Good Friday | 18.04 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ 4) |
Easter Monday | 21.04 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ 5) |
Sechseläuten | 28.04 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Labour Day | 01.05 | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | ✔️ | 🤷 2) |
Ascension | 29.05 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Whit Monday | 09.06 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ 5) |
Corpus Christi | 19.06 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | 🤷 2) |
Independence of Jura | 23.06 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 7) |
St. Peter & St. Paul | 29.06 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Swiss National Day | 01.08 | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
Assumption Day | 15.08 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ | 🤷 2) |
Jeûne Genevois | 11.09 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 9) |
Knabenschiessen | 15.09 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
Jeûne Fédéral + St. Mauritius | 22.09 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ❌ | ✔️ 15) |
Bruder Klaus | 25.09 | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ 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
9) Except for Genève (Genf)
12) Except for Obwalden
13) Only orders placed until 9 AM are shipped
14) Except for Uri, Schwyz, Ticino (Tessin) and some parts of Grisons (Graubünden)
15) Except for Vaud (Waadt) and Appenzell Innerrhoden