According to TNT, the transfer into the escrow account by the UK authorities acts as a guarantee towards the pension trust, of which the benefit to Royal Mail would be that it is able to recover the deficit over a longer funding period and to use their own funds to strengthen their business. If Royal Mail had had to fund the deficit at once, depending on whether the pension liability in the balance sheet would already have reflected such deficit, they would have been confronted with a substantial loss and reduction of equity and, perhaps more importantly, a reduction of funds. In normal market conditions, if a company needs funds, it can borrow from the debt market or raise additional capital in the equity markets. In Royal Mail’s case, it ...[+++]appeared there was third possibility, namely, agreeing to a more lenient price cap in its price control with the regulator. Prices could increase by a substantial level without reaching abusively high levels. As Royal Mail’s consent was required to give effect to the price control, this was a matter within the power of Royal Mail and an option which was known to its shareholder.

However, waiving default clauses under existing facilities (as was confirmed by the Royal Mail half-year regulatory accounts (8), at note 3 on page 18 ‘Royal Mail Group plc has net liabilities as at 24 September 2006, primarily as a result of the pension deficit within its main pension plan, the Royal Mail Pension Plan. Consequently, Royal Mail is in breach of its borrowing facilities with Government, but has received formal waivers from the Department of Trade and Industry, in its capacity as lender’) and granting additional loan finance was something a commercial party would not under normal circumstances do.

(44) Certain electronic mail systems allow subscribers to view the sender and subject line of an electronic mail, and also to delete the message, without having to download the rest of the electronic mail's content or any attachments, thereby reducing costs which could arise from downloading unsolicited electronic mails or attachments.

(44) Certain electronic mail systems allow subscribers to view the sender and subject line of an electronic mail, and also to delete the message, without having to download the rest of the electronic mail's content or any attachments, thereby reducing costs which could arise from downloading unsolicited electronic mails or attachments.

However, some of the USPs have started experiencing negative growth rates in some mail market segments, which they attribute to mail substitution (e.g. USA, Sweden), and the impact of mail substitution on mail volumes in the future remains unpredictable at this stage.

(44) Certain electronic mail systems allow subscribers to view the sender and subject line of an electronic mail, and also to delete the message, without having to download the rest of the electronic mail's content or any attachments, thereby reducing costs which could arise from downloading unsolicited electronic mails or attachments.