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Postcomm and Royal Mail have agreed that, in view of the complexity of the issues involved and the significant implications for many Royal Mail customers, more time is required to assess Royal Mail’s Size Based Pricing (SBP) proposal. Accordingly, the earliest implementation date, if the application is allowed to proceed, will be April 2006. In April 2004, Postcomm issued a consultation document seeking the views of interested parties on Royal Mail’s proposal to introduce SBP. Postcomm received more responses (over 120 individual responses, about 1,400 standard letters and around 8,000 postcard petitions) than in any consultation we have previously conducted. Postcomm has published the non-confidential individual responses on its website. All of the standard letters and postcard petitions were opposed to Royal Mail’s proposal, while fewer than 25% of the individual responses that were received, were in favour of Royal Mail’s proposal. Whilst this does not reflect the balance of actual ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ from the implementation of SBP, these responses raise some important issues requiring further consideration.