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Postal Services Act, 1998 (Act No. 124 of 1998)

Chapter IV : Postal Company and Postal Services

33. When postal articles regarded as being in course of transmission or to have been posted or delivered

 

For the purposes of this Act

a) a postal article shall be deemed to be in the course of transmission by post from the time of its being delivered to a post office to the time of its being delivered to the person to whom it is addressed;
b) the placing of a postal article of any description in a pillar box or other receptacle provided for this purpose by or with the approval of the postal company, or the delivery of a postal article to a postman or other person authorised to receive postal articles of that description for the post, must be regarded as being delivery to a post office;
c) the delivery of a postal article at the house or office of the person to whom the article is addressed, or to his or her servant or agent or other person considered to be authorised to receive the article according to the usual manner of delivering that person's postal articles, or at the address specified on such article, must be regarded as being delivery to the person to whom the article is addressed;
d) delivery into a private box or private bag must be regarded as being in all respects equivalent to personal delivery to the addressee.