Section 64: Interpretation

(1)
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires-
"Board" means the Nigerian Postal Service Governing Board, established under section 2 of this Act;
"contract vessel" means a vessel for the conveyance of mails pursuant to a contract or continuing arrangement;
''Department'' means the Nigerian Postal Service Department;
"fictitious postage stamp" means any facsimile or imitation or representation, whether on paper or otherwise, of any stamp or stamped impression, for denoting any rate of postage including any stamp or stamped impression, for denoting a rate of postage in any part of the Federation of Nigeria or of any foreign country;
"letter" means a communication in writing, which is directed to a specific person or address or relates to the personal, private or business affairs of an individual or any employer
and not being a correspondence which is not to be transmitted by means of a telecommunication system and includes a packet containing such communication;
"mail bag" means any bag, box, basket, parcel or other envelope or covering, in which postal articles in the course of transmission by post are conveyed, whether it does or does not contain any such article;
"master of vessel" means a person in charge of a vessel excepting a sea pilot;
"Minister" means Minister charged with responsibility for postal matters and "Ministry" shall be construed accordingly;
"officer of the Postal Service" includes any person employed in any business of the Nigerian Postal Service or on behalf of the same;
"port" means a place declared to be a port under the Customs, Excise Tariff. etc., (Consolidation) Act;
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"post office" includes a house, building, room, vehicle, vessel carriage or place used for the purpose of the Postal Service and every letter box provided by the Postal Service
for the receipt of postal articles;
"postal articles" include any letter, postcard, newspaper, book, document, pamphlet, pattern or sample packet, parcel or package or other article whatsoever transmissible by post;
''Postal Service" means the Nigerian Postal Service established by section 1 of this Act;
"postage stamp" means any label, stamp or stamped impression for denoting any rate of postage payable in respect of postal articles and includes adhesive postage stamps and stamps printed, embossed, impressed or otherwise indicated on any envelope, wrapper, postcard or other article, whether such postage stamp is issued under this Act or by the Government of any foreign country;
"transit" in relation to postal articles, means transit through and between post offices within or outside Nigeria.
(2) For the purpose of this Act, postal article shall be deemed-
(a) to be "in course of transmission" by post, from the time of its being posted at or delivered to the post office, to the time of its being delivered to or taken delivery of by the addressee or its being returned; or
(b) to cease to be such from the time of its being delivered to, or taken delivery of by the addressee or of its being returned or delivered to the sender or otherwise disposed of under the provisions of this Act.
(3) The placing or delivery-
(a) of an article in any receiving box for the deposit of postal articles, or the delivery of an article to an officer of the Postal Service in the course of his duties; or
(b)
the delivery of a postal article at the house or office, private mail bag, and private letter box of the addressee or to the addressee (or to his servant or agent or other person considered to be authorised to receive the article according to the usual manner of delivering postal articles to the addressee) and where the addressee is a guest or is resident at a hotel, delivery to the proprietor or manager therefore or to his agent.