―reserved postal services‖ means(a) the collection, transportation, sorting, and delivery, for hire or reward of letters
and postcards weighing up to three hundred and fifty grams, but not including
exempted letters sent by licensed courier, letters accompanying goods at the time
of delivery, newspapers, magazines, books, non-addressed leaflets, catalogues, and
trade announcements letters delivered otherwise than for reward, letters delivered
by an employee of the sender, letters containing any writ or proceeding from court
or any legal instrument of any kind and, letters carried to the premises of a
provider of electronic mail service for the purpose of transmission by electronic
mail;
(b) the production and issuance of postage stamps, pre-stamped envelopes,
aerogram, and international reply coupons bearing the official national coat of
arms or the words ―Republic of Kenya‖, ―Kenya,‖ or ―Kenya Post‖; and
(c) the rental or lease of private letter boxes or bags including use of postal
addresses and post codes;
―terminal dues‖ means remuneration by the administration of the origin of a postal
article to the administration of the destination of the postal article;
―universal postal services‖ means consistent supply of basic postal services at
affordable prices at all points within the country;
―universal service obligations‖ means obligations assumed by the public postal
licensee by virtue of a license granted by the Commission under the Act to provide
universal postal services;
―unreserved postal services‖ means courier services, counter services, money
orders, electronic bill payment, parcel collection, transport and delivery, expedited
mail service, overnight mail services, and other ways of handling postal articles not
defined as reserved postal services.
3. Delivery and acceptance.
(1) A postal article shall be considered—
(a) to have been delivered to the addressee—
(i) when it is delivered into a private letter box or bag of the addressee;