S.I. No. 588/2009 - Inland Post Amendment (No. 80) Scheme 2009.

1. A “POP Letter” is a postal packet with the following dimensions

Minimum dimensions

90mm x 140mm x 0.18mm.

Maximum dimensions

162mm x 235mm x 5mm.

2. A “Flat” is a postal packet with the following dimensions

Save insofar as an item falls within the dimensions specified at 1 above

Minimum dimensions

90mm x 140mm x 0.15mm.

Maximum dimensions

300 mm x 400 mm x 25mm.

3. A “Packet” is a postal packet with the following dimensions

Save insofar as an item falls within the dimensions specified at 1 or 2

Minimum dimensions

70mm x 100mm x 25mm

Maximum dimensions

Length, width and depth combined cannot exceed 900 mm. No one dimension can exceed 600mm (In roll form: length and twice diameter: 1040mm, greatest dimension not exceeding 900mm) with a tolerance of 2mm.

4. “Pre-sorted” means items pre-sorted according to the required pre-sort specifications supplied from time to time by An Post.

GIVEN under the Common Seal of An Post this 22nd day of December 2009.

Present when the Common Seal of An Post was affixed hereto.

DONAL CONNELL,

Director

MICHAEL TYNDELL

Director/Secretary

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation).

This Scheme extends the scope of the Inland Post Warrant 1939 to include incoming cross border mail, allows An Post to determine charges by sampling and sets prices for such mail where there is no agreement with the sender.

5. If an invoice is not paid within 30 days of issue by An Post, An Post shall be entitled to interest on the amount outstanding at the rate specified in Regulation 5 of the European Communities (Late Payment in Commercial Transactions) Regulations 2002 for the period beginning on the day after the issue of the invoice and ending on the day on which the payment of the amount due is made.

TABLE A

Machinable Postal Packets

Machinable postal packets are postal packets which are capable of being processed by An Post’s automated sorting equipment. 85% of the postal packets have addresses that are capable of being sorted to destination by An Post’s automated equipment without manual intervention and all bear indicia acceptable to An Post.

Machinable Postal Packets

Rate Per Item (€)

Type of Postal Packet

POP Letter

Flat

Weight

<100g

<100g

Presentation of postal packets at the Dublin Mails Centre or the An Post Airmail Unit at Dublin Airport

Presentation pre-15.00, 85% auto-sort

0.44

0.82

Machinable Postal Packets

Rate Per Item (€)

Type of Postal Packet

Flat

Flat

Flat

Weight

101g-250g

251g-500g

501g-1kg

Presentation of postal packets at the Dublin Mails Centre or the An Post Airmail Unit at Dublin Airport.

Presentation pre-15.00, 85% auto-sort

1.14

1.65

2.70

For the purposes of this table

6. Regulation 5 of the Principal Warrant is hereby amended by the addition of the following paragraph (7)

“There shall be charged and payable for the conveyance of postal packets in respect of which there is no agreement with An Post whereby the charges are determined and which

(

a

) are posted in a consignment weighing not less than 40kg,

(

b

) do not bear a postage stamp issued by An Post, a franking impression to denote prepayment of postage pursuant to regulation 3(1) of the No. 61 Scheme or a Ceadunas,

(

c

) comply with the terms and conditions set out in Schedule 9,

charges calculated in accordance with Schedule 9.

All Postal packets posted at the same place on the same day shall be deemed to form part of the same consignment. For the avoidance of doubt a Convention of the Universal Postal Union is not an agreement by which charges are determined for the purposes of this paragraph.”

7. The Principal Warrant is hereby amended by the addition of the Schedule to this Scheme to the Principal Warrant.

SCHEDULE SCHEDULE 9

S.I. No. 588 of 2009

INLAND POST AMENDMENT (No. 80) SCHEME

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

19

th January

, 2010.

An Post, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by

Section 70

of the

Postal and Telecommunications Services Act 1983

(No. 24 of 1983) as amended by Regulation 8(4) of the European Communities (Postal Services) Regulations 2002 (

S.I. No. 616 of 2002

) hereby makes the following Scheme