In article , Charles Ellson writes
That's right: for most legal purposes a document is deemed to be validly delivered to the recipient 2 working days after it was posted, irrespective of whether it actually arrived.
In message , at 06:08:47 on Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Clive D. W. Feather remarked:
This is particularly irksome when the sender (I have experience here of District Councils) sends the letter by 2nd Class post and it arrives on the 5th or 6th day of their "7 days notice". Especially when they are wrong, and you don't actually owe them the money.
Or the pensions company who sent me a letter where the date on the letterhead was three weeks before the date on the envelope. It left me with just one week to meet a difficult statutary requirement. :(
Were they creating an issue, in which case you had good grounds to demand an extension, or merely sending you a notice or a reminder of some duty of which you were already bound and maybe should already have been aware?
Tony
AFAIR it was a statutary form that had to be filled and returned, with a drop-dead date. Some of the information had to be got from third parties, within that 7 days. This was a private pension with a guaranteed (very high) return on the final fund, and there were several unusual similar incidents in the last two years of it. For example, three funding checks in two years? I am of course absolutely certain that that nice, honest pensions company was not trying to derail that pension. :) or :(
IIRC that's for First Class post with either one or two days longer allowed for Second Class post. It's buried somewhere in the one of the (England and Wales) court service's websites. It's one of the matters which killed a parking ticket I received as the paperwork started the clock from the date of posting of a notice instead of the date it was received effectively imposing a penalty supposed to start after (IIRC)
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