(a) a postal article shall be deemed to be in course of transmission by
the post from the time of its being delivered to a post office to the time
of its being delivered to the addressee or of its being returned to t
he
sender or otherwise disposed of under Chapter VII;
(b) the delivery of a postal article of any description to a postman or
other person authorized to receive postal articles of that description for
the post shall be deemed to be a delivery to a post of
fice; and
(c) The delivery of a postal article at the house or office of the
addressee, or to the addressee or his servant or agent or other person
considered to be authorized to receive the article according to the
usual manner of delivering postal artic
les to the addressee, shall be
deemed to be delivery to the addressee.
CHAPTER II
PRIVILEGE AND PROTECTION OF THE GOVERNMENT
4.
Exclusive privilege of conveying letters reserved to the
Government.
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(1) Wherever within India posts or postal
communication
s are established by the Central Government, the
Central Government shall have the exclusive privilege of conveying by
post, from one place to another, all letters except in the following
cases, and shall also have the exclusive privilege of performing all
the
incidental services of receiving, collecting, sending, desptaching and
delivering all letters, except in the following cases that is to say:
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(a)
letters sent by a private friend in his way, journey or travel, to
be delivered by him to the person to whom
they are directed,
without hire, reward or other profit or advantages for receiving,
carrying or delivering them;
(b)
letters solely concerning the affairs of the sender or receiver
thereof, sent by a messenger on purpose; and
(c)
letters solely concerning good
s or property sent either by sea
or by land to be delivered with the goods or property which the
letters concern, without hire, reward or other profit or
advantage for receiving, carrying or delivering them:
Provided that nothing in this section
shall authorize any person to
make a collection of letters excepted as aforesaid for the purpose of
sending them otherwise than by post.
(2) For the purposes of this Section and Section
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5, the expression
“letters” includes Postcards.
5.
Certain persons
expressly forbidden to convey letter.
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Wherever within (India) posts or postal communications are
established by the Central Government, the following persons