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Article 5(1)(e)
1.—(1) One or more services for addressees providing that during a specified reasonable period all postal packets addressed to a named individual that are to be delivered by a universal service provider should be conveyed to a postal address other than that marked on the postal packet (“the redirection address”) within a reasonable period.
(2) This service is not required—
(a)where the redirection address is outside the United Kingdom and—
(i)the postal packet contains registered items or insured items; or
(ii)the postal packet exceeds 100 grams in weight, 240 millimetres in length, 165 millimetres in width or 25 millimetres in thickness;
(b)in relation to postal packets to a particular addressee or from a particular sender or class of sender, where the provision of the service in relation to those postal packets would create a substantial risk of crime;
(c)where the address marked on the postal packet or the redirection address relates to premises in relation to which it is reasonable not to provide the service; or
(d)where the redirection address is a delivery office or a post office.
2. One or more free of charge services for addressees, which provide—
(a)for the address of any specified post office in the United Kingdom to be used as an addressee’s postal address for a reasonable period, and
(b)for postal packets for that addressee to be held at that post office for a reasonable period for collection by the addressee, provided, in relation to any post office, that it is reasonable for the post office concerned to be used to provide the service.
3. One or more services for addressees which provide for a delay for a specified reasonable period to the target delivery date otherwise applicable to any postal packets.
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