Royal Mail to refuse to accept mailings posted via Extra Territorial Offices of Exchange (ETOEs)

Royal Mail has announced that from 1 January 2005 it will refuse to accept under the terms and conditions of the UPU Acts, any items of mail received from ETOE’s, international offices of exchange operated by a national postal administrations but located in another country
Over the last few years an increasing number of ETOEs have been established for both operational and commercial reasons, in some cases however, they have been established in unindustrialised countries by industrialised countries to take advantage of the lower terminal dues charged to unindustrialised countries.
At the Universal Postal Union (UPU) Congress in Bucharest this Autumn a resolution was adopted which stated that mailings processed by ETOEs are not covered by UPU Acts.
In line with this resolution Royal Mail has informed all international postal carriers that from 1 January 2005 it will refuse to accept any mail from ETOEs, under the terms and conditions of the UPU Acts, which is given to it by either conveyance companies, third party handling agents, postal administrations or any other intermediary and other intermediaries
ETOE mail will be eligible for access to Royal Mail’s domestic products on a non-discriminatory basis.

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