Belgium

Start date: 15 July 2021
End date: ongoing
Incident: flooding

The designated operator of Belgium, bpost, asks us to inform that exceptionally heavy rain has caused extreme flooding in the south of the country, resulting in the closure of the railway network and numerous national and regional roads in the affected areas. Consequently, postal services in southern Belgium are currently disrupted.

Inbound and outbound services (both domestic and international) are operating as normal in the rest of the country.

Bpost will provide further information once the situation has returned to normal.
 


China

Start date: 12 July 2021
End date: ongoing
Incident: severe weather


Severe weather is disrupting flight operations: around 700 flights were canceled at Beijing’s two city airports. The cancellations were due to torrential downpours and gale-force winds and weather authorities warned of extreme rainstorms plus thunder and lightning till the evening of July 12.

 

Germany

Start date: 14 July 2021
End date: ongoing
Incident: flooding

Flooding causes further disruptions across North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate: ongoing heavy rains are still causing flooding and related disruptions in multiple locations across the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.

Consequently, dozens of highways and roads have been closed, and wide-spread evacuations have been reported. Some of the worst affected areas include: Märkischer Kreis, Witten, Wuppertal, Cologne, Leverkusen, Essen, Dusseldorf, Aachen, Bochum, Hagen, Eschweiler, Stolberg, Solingen, Erkrath, Lindlar, Rösrath, Altena, Remscheid, Velbert, Hückeswagen, Wipperfürth, Engelskirchen, Euskirchen, Hürth, Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, Heinsberg, Düren, Hochsauerlandkreis, Rhein-Erft-Kreis, Ennepe-Ruhr Kreis, Unna, and Bottrop.
 


Luxembourg

Start date: 14 July 2021
End date: ongoing
Incident: flooding

Post Luxembourg wants to inform that the country has been hit by floods due to heavy rainfall since Wednesday.
Severe flooding has caused :

  • closure of some school
  • railway network disruption
  • roads blocking
  • evacuation of certain regions

 
As consequence, some postal services in certain regions of the country are disrupted :

  • closure of 1 Distribution Center
  • closure of 3 over the counter offices (postal codes starting with 64, 94 and 75)

An update will follow once the situation has returned to normal.

 

Thailand

Start date: 1 July 2021
End date: ongoing
Incident: coronavirus
 

The designated operator of Thailand, Thailand Post, would like to inform that, as a result of a significant number of new COVID-19 infections detected in Thailand, the Government of Thailand has extended the nationwide state of emergency until 30 September 2021. The wide-ranging restrictions in force include a curfew (21.00 to 4.00) in 10 provinces (Bangkok, Nakhon Pathom, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon, Songkhla, Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala), limits on opening hours for some venues, and telework measures.

 

Thailand Post will continue to provide postal services but will be operating with a reduced workforce. This state of emergency and curfew may have impacts on mail processing for international inbound and outbound items. 

 

Moreover, owing to the reduced number of outbound flights, Thailand Post would like to reiterate that transit services (both open and closed) for all categories of mail (letter-post, parcel-post and EMS items) remain suspended.