Upper weight limit for UK standard parcels changing from June 1 2004

Royal Mail announced today (February 10 2004) that a change to the upper weight limit of its standard parcels service will be made from June 1 2004. The change, announced in October 2003, was previously due to take place from April 1 2004.

Royal Mail, in agreement with its regulator Postcomm, is changing the upper weight limit for the standard parcel service from 30kgs to 20kgs. Less than one per cent of the four and half million standard parcels a year are affected by the change.

Royal Mail will continue to deliver parcels weighing up to 20kgs at a standard, uniform price to all addresses across the UK.

The date of the change to the standard parcels weight limit has been put back to June following feedback from the consumer watchdog Postwatch that some posters advising customers of the change had not been displayed in all Post Office branches from the beginning of January, as had been previously agreed.

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