Section 1: Establishment of the Nigerian Postal Service. etc.

(1) There is hereby established a body to be known as the Nigerian Postal Service (in this Act referred to as "the Postal Service"), which shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued in its corporate name.
(2) The Postal Service shall have the exclusive privilege of-
(a) conveying all letters from one place to another where postal communication have been established: and
(b) performing all the incidental services of receiving, collecting, sending, despatching and delivering, written and printed matter, parcels and like materials, from anyone place to another, where postal communications shall have been established.
(3) The exclusive privileges conferred on the Postal Service by subsection (2) of this section, shall not extend to-
(a) letters sent between individuals on private journey or travel, without reward so that the letters may be delivered to the party to whom they are directed;
(b) letters sent through a messenger on purposes concerning the private affairs or business of the sender or receiver thereof;
(c) commissions or returns thereof and affidavits and writs, process or proceedings, or returns thereof, issuing out of a court of justice;
(d) letters of merchants, owners of vessels of merchandise or the cargo or loading therein, sent by the vessels of merchandise, or by any person employed by the owners for the carriage of the letters, according to their respective directions and delivered to the respective persons to whom are directed, without paying or receiving hire, reward, advantage or profit for the same in any way;
(e) letters concerning goods or merchandise sent by common carriers, to be delivered with the goods which letters concern without hire or reward or other such profit or advantage for receiving or delivering letters; and
(f) letters sent through courier service companies licensed under section 45 of this Act.