Post Office

ROYAL MAIL GROUP PLC

ROYAL MAIL GROUP PLC SCHEME IL2/2003

[This note is not part of the Scheme]

NOTE: The Scheme which 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. The Scheme, which comes into force on 20th December 2003 changes certain products and their prices.

ROYAL MAIL GROUP PLC INLAND LETTER POST (AMENDMENT No 8) SCHEME 2003

Made   16th December 2003

Coming into operation   20th December 2003

Royal Mail Group plc (a) by virtue of the powers conferred upon it by section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000 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 20th December 2003 and may be cited as the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post (Amendment No.8) Scheme 2003.
2.	This Scheme shall be read as one with the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Letter Post Scheme 2001(b) (hereinafter called “the Scheme”) as amended by the Consignia plc Inland Letter Post Scheme (Amendment No.1) Scheme 2001, the Consignia plc Inland Letter Post Scheme (Amendment No.2) Scheme 2001, the Consignia plc Inland Letter Post Scheme (Amendment No.3) Scheme 2001, the Consignia plc Inland Letter Post Scheme (Amendment No.4) Scheme 2002, the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme (Amendment No.5) Scheme 2002, the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme (Amendment No.6) Scheme 2002, and the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Letter Post Scheme (Amendment No.7) Scheme 2003.
3.	A reference in this Scheme to the Successor Postal Services Company shall be read as a reference to Royal Mail Group plc.

Paragraph 28, PO Boxes

4.	Paragraph 28.2 of the Scheme shall be deleted and the following substituted:
“The maximum number of PO Boxes per permanent address shall be subject to operational capability.”
5	A new Paragraph shall be inserted as paragraph 28.9 and shall read as follows:
“Where more than one PO Box exists in respect of any permanent address Royal Mail shall not be obliged to sort mail according to each of the PO Boxes and all such mail shall be bundled together for collection or delivery as the customer shall specify”

Paragraph 39 Selectapost

6	In paragraph 39.5 the words “and packets” will be included after the words “which cannot be pre-sorted” and before the comma in the third line.
7.	The following paragraph shall be inserted as paragraph 39.8.
“The entry requirements for the service are:
-	an average of less than 6000 items per day
-	fewer than 25 selections - including a residue selection
-	letters and flats will be sorted to the appropriate selection but packets will only be sorted to a residue selection”

Schedule 1, Postage Rates and Fees, Paragraph 19

8.	The present table of fees shall be deleted in its entirety and replaced by the following provision:

“Selectapost

-	A fee of £100 per annum per selection
-	A fee of £16 per 1000 letters, and £24 per 1000 flats
-	An extra fee of 53p per 1000 items for delivery to multiple points within a building.”

Signed by Timothy Adams for and on behalf of

Royal Mail Group plc

Date: 16th December 2003

(a) Royal Mail Group plc (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 plc 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 4th November 2002.

(b) The Post Office Inland Letter Post Scheme 2000 was amended, renamed the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Letter Post Scheme 2001 and treated as made under section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000 by the article 37 of the Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No.4 and Transitional and Savings Provisions) Order 2001 (2001/1148 (C.37)).