Post Office

ROYAL MAIL GROUP PLC

ROYAL MAIL GROUP PLC SCHEME IP1/2004

[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 Parcel Post Scheme 2001. The Scheme, which comes into force on 1st April 2004, revises certain postal charges and compensation provisions.

ROYAL MAIL GROUP PLC INLAND PARCEL POST (AMENDMENT NO 7) SCHEME 2004

Made   26th March 2004

Coming into operation   1st April 2004

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 and citation

1.	This Scheme shall come into operation on 1st April 2004 and may be cited as the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 7) Scheme 2003.
2.	This Scheme shall be read as one with the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Parcel Post Scheme 2001(b)(hereinafter called “the Scheme”), as amended by the Consignia plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 1) Scheme 2001(c), the Consignia Plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 2) Scheme 2001(d), the Consignia plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 3) Scheme 2002(e), the Consignia plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 4) Scheme 2002(f), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 5) Scheme 2003(g), the Royal Mail Group plc Inland Parcel Post (Amendment No. 6) Scheme 2002(h).
3.	A reference in this Scheme to the Successor Postal Services Company shall be read as a reference to Royal Mail Group plc.

Rates of Postage

There shall be substituted the following for Schedule 1 to the Scheme:

“Schedule 1

Paragraphs 5 and 10

Rates of postage and limits of size and weight

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3	Column 4
Description of	Rates of	Limits of size	Limits of
postal packet	postage	weight
Parcels
(a) Weight not	£3.46	Save as Royal	Not
exceeding 1kg	Mail Group plc	exceeding
Weight exceeding 1kg	£4.45	may allow in	20kg
but not exceeding 1.5kg	(b) - Greatest
Weight exceeding 1.5kg	£4.78	length 1.5m
but not exceeding 2kg	- Greatest
Weight exceeding 2kg	£7.20	length and girth
but not exceeding 4kg	combined 3m
Weight exceeding 4kg	£7.86	(the girth to be
but not exceeding 6kg	measured around
Weight exceeding 6kg	£8.96	the thickest part)
but not exceeding 8kg
Weight exceeding 8kg	£9.62
but not exceeding 10kg
Weight exceeding 10kg	£11.21
but not exceeding 20kg

(b) Where Royal Mail

Group plc allows trans-

mission of a parcel which

exceeds the size limits

shown in paragraph (a),

such rate as Royal Mail

Group plc may fix, having

regard to the size”

Compensation Fees

There shall be substituted the following for Schedule 4 Part I of the Scheme

Part I

Parcel Compensation fee and maximum compensation

Column 1	Column 2
Compensation fee	Maximum compensation payable
(in addition to postage)
£0.50	£100
£1.15	£250
£2.25	£500

Signed by Mark Sherborne

for and on behalf of Royal Mail Group plc

26th March 2004

(Footnotes)

(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.

(b) The Post Office Inland Parcel Post Scheme 1989 was amended, renamed the Successor Postal Services Company Inland Parcel Post Scheme 2001 and treated as made under section 89 of the Postal Services Act 2000 by article 38 of the Postal Services Act 2000 (Commencement No. 4 and Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2001 (2001/1148 (C.37)).

(c) Edinburgh Gazette 29/06/2001

(d) Edinburgh Gazette 06/07/2001

(e) Edinburgh Gazette 22/03/2002

(f) Edinburgh Gazette 28/06/02

(g) Edinburgh Gazette 16/05/03

(h) Edinburgh Gazette 05/12/03