Royal Mail Group Limited

   ROYAL MAIL GROUP LIMITED SCHEME IL1/2010

   (This Note is not part of the Scheme)

NOTE: The Scheme that follows this Note is made under Section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000 and amends the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Letter Post Scheme 2001. This Scheme, which comes into force on 6th April 2010, provides notification of changes to the prices for several services set out in Schedule 1.

   End of Note

   ROYAL MAIL GROUP LIMITED INLAND LETTER POST (AMENDMENT No. 29) SCHEME 2010

   Made..........................................................................19th March 2010

   Coming into operation...................................................6th April 2010

Royal Mail Group Limited(a) by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by Section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000(b) and of all other powers enabling it in this behalf, hereby makes the following Scheme:

   Commencement, citation and interpretation

1.	This Scheme shall come into operation on 6th April 2010 and may be cited as the Royal Mail Group Limited Inland Letter Post Scheme (Amendment No. 29) 2010.
2.	This Scheme shall be read as one with the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Letter Post Scheme 2001(c) (hereinafter called “the Scheme”) as amended by:

 the Consignia plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No.1) 2001,(d)

 the Consignia plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 2) 2001,(e)

 the Consignia plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 3) 2001,(f)

 the Consignia plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 4) 2002,(g)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 5) 2002,(h)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 6) 2003,(i)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 7) 2003,(j)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 8) 2003,(k)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 9) 2004,(l)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 10) 2004,(m)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 11) 2004,(n)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 12) 2004,(o)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 13) 2004,(p)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 14) 2004,(q)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 15) 2005,(r)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 16) 2005,(s)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 17) 2005,(t)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 18) 2005,(u)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 19) 2006,(v)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 20) 2006,(w)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 21) 2006,(x)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 22) 2006,(y)

 the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 23) 2007,(z)

 the Royal Mail Group Ltd Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 24) 2008,(aa)

 the Royal Mail Group Ltd Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 25) 2008,(bb)

 the Royal Mail Group Ltd Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 26) 2009.(cc)

 the Royal Mail Group Ltd Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 27) 2009.(dd)

 the Royal Mail Group Ltd Inland Letter Post Scheme Amendment (No. 28) 2010.(ee)

Schedule 1: Postage Rates and Fees

Paragraphs 8, 11, 15, 16, 18, and 20 of Schedule 1 of the Scheme shall be deleted and the following substituted respectively.

   8. FIRST AND SECOND CLASS POSTAGE RATES

   FIRST CLASS

Payment Channel(p)
Format	Size	Weight	Postage	Pre-paid	Smart	Franked	Printed
(g)	Stamp	Stationery	Stamp	Mark	Postage
Mark	Mark	Impression
Letters	Maximum	0-100	41	41	41	36	36
240 x
165mm
5mm
thick
Large	Maximum	0-100	66	66	66	50	50
Letters	353 x
250mm	101 – 250	96	96	96	72	72
25mm	251 – 500	132	132	132	104	104
thick	501 –750	187	187	187	151	151
Packets	Over	0-100	139	139	139	120	120
353mm	101 – 250	172	172	172	149	149
long or	251 - 500	224	224	224	180	180
250mm	501 - 750	275	275	275	223	223
wide	751 – 1000	335	335	335	270	270
or over	1001 – 1250	450	450	450	376	376
25mm	1251 – 1500	520	520	520	442	442
thick	1501 – 1750	590	590	590	507	507
1751 – 2000	660	660	660	566	566
2001 – 4000	822	822	822	739	739
Each	280	280	280	252	252
additional
2kg or part
thereof
SECOND CLASS
Payment Channel(p)
Format	Size	Weight	Postage	Pre-paid	Smart	Franked	Printed
(g)	Stamp	Stationery	Stamp	Mark	Postage
Mark	Mark	Impression
Letters	Maximum	0-100	32	32	32	25	25
240 x
165mm
5mm
thick
Large	Maximum	0-100	51	51	51	40	40
Letters	353 x
250mm	101 – 250	81	81	81	59	59
25mm	251 – 500	111	111	111	85	85
thick	501 –750	159	159	159	123	123
Packets	Over	0-100	117	117	117	100	100
353mm	101 – 250	151	151	151	130	130
long or	251 - 500	195	195	195	150	150
250mm	501 - 750	236	236	236	182	182
wide or	751 – 1000	284	284	284	218	218
over
25mm
thick

   Please note that items heavier than 1000g cannot be sent Second Class

11. PO BOX

Box Fee	Delivery of letters	Transfer of street address
letters to PO Box (collection)
6 months	£60.00	+£42.05	+£42.05
12 months	£95.00	+£30.75	+£30.57

15. RECORDED

The fee is 74p per letter in addition to the First and Second Class postage.

16. REDIRECTION

Duration	To or from a United Kingdom	To or from a United Kingdom
business address per business	residential address per name
name
1 month	£15.47	£7.64
3 months	£25.96	£16.82
6 months	£51.97	£25.96
12 months	£77.99	£38.99

18. RESPONSE SERVICES

Service	Licence	Postage	Handling
Fee	Charge
Response Service	£76.55	Applicable First
per annum	or Second Class	2.5p
Bar-coded Response
Service	£76.55	Applicable First
per annum	or Second Class	None
Freepost Name	£185.85	Applicable First	10p
per annum	Class
Response Service	£79.55	Applicable Special	None
with Special Delivery	per annum	Delivery Charge
(including maximum
compensation up to
£500)
Response Service	£79.55	Applicable Special	None
with Special Delivery	per annum	Delivery Charge
(including maximum
compensation up to
£1000)
Response Service	£79.55	Applicable Special	None
with Special Delivery	per annum	Delivery Charge
(including maximum
compensation up to
£2500)

The £76.55 (Response Service and Bar-coded Response Service) and £79.55 (Special Delivery) licence fees listed above apply where the total number of licences held by a person does not exceed 10. Thereafter, each additional licence will carry a fe e of £36.50.

20. SPECIAL DELIVERY

Stamped & SmartStamp Fees

Weight	Fee for maximum	Fee for maximum	Fee for maximum
of letter	compensation up	compensation up	compensation up
to £500	to £1,000	to £2,500
1-100g	£5.05	£5.90	£7.60
Over 100g	£5.50	£6.35	£8.05
-500g
Over 500g	£6.70	£7.55	£9.25
-1kg
Over 1kg	£8.65	£9.50	£11.20
-2kg
Over 2kg	£21.65	£22.50	£24.20
-10kg

Franked & Printed Postage Impression Fees

Weight	Fee for maximum	Fee for maximum	Fee for maximum
of letter	compensation up	compensation up	compensation up
to £500	to £1,000	to £2,500
1-100g	£4.87	£5.72	£7.42
Over 100g	£5.20	£6.05	£7.75
-500g
Over 500g	£6.29	£7.14	£8.84
-1kg
Over 1kg	£7.91	£8.76	£10.46
-2kg
Over 2kg	£20.65	£21.50	£23.20
-10kg

The Saturday guaranteed delivery service is £2.25 in addition to the fees shown above.

Signed by:	Paul Simpson for and on behalf of Royal Mail Group Ltd.
Date:	19th March 2010
(a)	Royal Mail Group Ltd (a company registered in England and Wales under number 4138203) is a universal service provider as defined in section 4(3)(a) of the Postal Services Act 2000. Royal Mail Group Ltd is the successor postal services company referred to in article 37(1) of the Postal Service Act 2000 (Commencement No.4 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2001 (2001/1148 (C.37)). It changed its name from Consignia plc on 4 November 2002 to Royal Mail Group plc and to Royal Mail Group Ltd on 2nd April 2007.
(b)	2000 c26
(c)	The Post Office Inland Letter Scheme 2000 was amended, renamed the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Letter Post Scheme 2001and treated as made under section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000 by the article 37(1) of the Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No.4 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2001 (2001/1148(C37))
(d)	Belfast Gazette, 29th June 2001, issue number 6257
(e)	Belfast Gazette, 6th July 2001, issue number 6259
(f)	Belfast Gazette, 23rd November 2001, issue number 6298
(g)	Belfast Gazette, 28th June 2002, issue number 6363
(h)	Belfast Gazette, 17th January 2003, issue number 6420
(i)	Belfast Gazette, 2nd May 2003, issue number 6451
(j)	Belfast Gazette, 21st November 2003, issue number 6509
(k)	Belfast Gazette, 19th December 2003, issue number 6517
(l)	Belfast Gazette, 26th March 2004, issue number 6545
(m)	Belfast Gazette, 16th April 2004, issue number 6554
(n)	Belfast Gazette, 24th September 2004, issue number 6599
(o)	Belfast Gazette, 8th October 2004, issue number 6603
(p)	Belfast Gazette, 22nd October 2004, issue number 6607
(q)	Belfast Gazette, 17th December 2004, issue number 6623
(r)	Belfast Gazette, 18th February 2005, issue number 6635
(s)	Belfast Gazette, 1st April 2005, issue number 6648
(t)	Belfast Gazette, 1st April 2005, issue number 6648
(u)	Belfast Gazette, 15th July 2005, issue number 6681
(v)	Belfast Gazette, 24th March 2006 issue number 6752
(w)	Belfast Gazette, 21st April 2006, issue number 6760
(x)	Belfast Gazette, 9th June 2006, issue number 6774
(y)	Belfast Gazette, 28th July 2006, issue number 6788
(z)	Belfast Gazette, 16th March 2007, issue number 6854
(aa)	Belfast Gazette, 14th March 2008, issue number 6960
(bb)	Belfast Gazette, 25th July 2008, issue number 7000
(cc)	Belfast Gazette, 27th March 2009, issue number 7069
(dd)	Belfast Gazette, 30th October 2009, issue number 7133
(ee)	Belfast Gazette, 29th January 2010, issue number 7158