2nd Floor Waterfront Plaza 8 Laganbank Road Mays Meadow Belfast BT1 3BN Office of the Chairman and Chief Executive Tel: 028 9040 8805 Email: [email protected] Northern Ireland Legal Services Commission Circular 16/14 22 August 2014 Dear Practitioner, Discontinuation of DX Network Postal Service 1. I write to provide you with advance notice that, with effect from Monday 1st September 2014, the Commission will discontinue the use of the DX Network Postal Service for our outgoing mail only. The Commission will, therefore, no longer be able to send any outgoing correspondence via the DX Network from that date. 2. The above change is as a result of a formal re-tender process whereby the Commission will replace its existing postal providers with ONE POST. During the coming weeks, the Commission will be liaising with the new provider and revising its internal processes to ensure a seamless transition. One of the most obvious changes will be the address used on correspondence to Practitioners; the full address including postcode will now be used, with the DX reference removed. 1 All mail from the Commission will be delivered to Practitioners through the Royal Mail postal system as part of the commercial partnership arrangements used by the new provider. 3. DX Network Postal Service will continue to deliver all mail sent by individual DX members to the Commission from the above date without any interruption 1 Remittance advices sent via email from the NILSC remittance mailbox may still contain your DX address. We will be undertaking a rolling programme of work over the coming weeks to replace the DX address with your postal address. Please note that this will not affect your payments. to this element of their service. The Commission’s DX number will remain unchanged at Legal Services Commission, DX 2930NR, Belfast 5. 4. Should you have any queries about the Commission’s new postal arrangements, please contact Linda Norris, Head of Personnel and Office Services Branch, by email at [email protected] or by telephone on 028 9040 8888. 5. If you need any clarification regarding your ongoing DX service then please contact DX directly on 028 9445 9185. Yours sincerely, Paul Andrews Paul Andrews Chief Executive