The Postal Service has been formally established and today launches its official website at postal.gov.vin. From Monday 7 September 2026 it will collect, sort and deliver mail across the Network under a single tariff.
Services and post offices
- Services and Prices
The tariff for letters, large letters and parcels, and the additional services available at every counter.
- Sending Mail
How to address, pack and post an item, and what may not be sent through the post.
- Finding a Post Office
Twelve post offices and counters at the principal sites of the Network, open from Monday 7 September 2026.
- Delivery Standards and Tracking
The Service's delivery targets, collection and delivery times, and how to trace a tracked item.
- Postcodes
The Network postcode scheme, its six districts and eighteen sectors, and how to write a postcode correctly.
- Redirection and Holding
Having mail forwarded to a new address within the Network, or held at a post office while you are away.
- Business Services
Account posting, bulk mail, franking, post office boxes and business counters for member organisations.
- Statistics
The first statistical release, covering the transition period, and the schedule of quarterly reporting.
- Frequently asked questions
Prices, delivery times, missed deliveries and what to do when an item goes astray.
Latest announcements
All news- Postal Service Confirms Opening of Twelve Post Offices and Counters
Six post offices and six counters at the principal sites of the Network open on Monday 7 September 2026. The register of offices, their opening hours and the services available at each are published from today.
- Postal Service Publishes Tariff for Letters and Parcels
A single tariff applies to all mail posted within the Network from Monday 7 September 2026. A standard letter costs 1.20 credits at the ordinary rate and 1.80 credits at the priority rate; parcels are priced by weight in three bands.
- Postal Service Publishes Delivery Standards and First Statistical Release
The Service undertakes to deliver 93 per cent of priority mail on the next working day and 95 per cent of ordinary mail within two working days. Its first statistical release records 186,400 items handled during the transition period and 9,800 delivery points at establishment.
About the Postal Service
The Postal Service of the Velocity Interoperability Network collects, sorts and delivers letters and parcels across the Velocity Interoperability Network, operates post offices and counters at the principal sites and maintains the Network postcode scheme.
It provides a single tariff for all mail posted within the Network, publishes the delivery standards it undertakes to meet, and offers account posting, bulk mail and post office boxes to member organisations.
Milestones
6 September 2026
Postal Service established
Responsibility for the collection, sorting and delivery of mail, for post offices at the principal sites and for the Network postcode scheme.
6 September 2026
postal.gov.vin launched
The register of post offices, the tariff, the delivery standards and guidance on sending mail published on the official website.
7 September 2026
Collections and deliveries begin
Twelve post offices and counters open, and the first collections from the Service's 84 post boxes are made under the single tariff.
Forthcoming
Quarterly reporting and parcel lockers
The first report of performance against the delivery standards, covering the quarter ending 30 September 2026, and the installation of parcel lockers at the principal sites will be announced in the Newsroom.