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In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires— authorized officer Lomutssion and aithori zed for the ofposes omphis ed by the Commission; "Commission" means the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission established under the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission Act 1998 [Act 589]; "document exchange" means a place where documents are deposited for collection by the addressee; - "fictitious stamp" means any facsimile or imitation or representation, whether on paper or otherwise, of any postage stamp purporting to denote any rate of postage including any stamp purporting to denote a rate of postage of any other country; "letter" means any form of written communication or other document that is directed to a specific person or a specific address and is to be conveyed other than by electronic means; and includes a packet, package, wrapper or article containing any such communication; "licence" means a licence granted under section 10; "licensee" means any person licensed under section 10; "mail bag" means any bag, box, basket, parcel, envelope or container in which postal articles in course of transmission by post are conveyed, whether it does or does not contain any such article; "post office" includes every house, building, room, vessel, carriage or place where postal articles are received or delivered or where they are sorted, made-up or despatched and every post office letter box provided for the reception of postal articles, or where postal financial services under section 24 are carried out; "postage" means the duty chargeable for the transmission by post of postal articles; "postage stamp" means any label or stamp for denoting any rate of postage fee or other sum payable in respect of a postal article, and includes adhesive postage stamps and stamps printed, embossed, impressed or otherwise indicated on any envelope, wrapper, postcard or other article, whether such stamp is issued under this Act or under the law of any other country; "postal article" mneans a letter, postcard, newspaper, book, document, pamphlet, pattern or sample packet, small packet, parcel, package or any other article or thing transmissible by post. Meaning of "in course of transmission by post" and "delivery" 3. For the purposes of this Act- (a) a postal article shall be deemed to be in the course of transmission by post from the time of its being delivered to a post office to the time of its being delivered to the addressee, or its being returned to the sender or otherwise disposed of under this Act; (b) a postal article shall be deemed to cease to be such from the time of its being delivered to the addressee, or of its being returned to the sender or otherwise disposed of under this Act; (c) the placing of a postal article in any receiving box for the deposit of postal articles, or the delivery of a postal article to an officer of the licensee in the course of his duties shall be deemed to be delivery to a post office; (d) the delivery of a postal article at the house or office of the addressee, or to the addressee, or to his servant or agent or other person considered to be authorized to receive the article according to the usual manner of delivering postal articles to the addressee, or to a box provided, pursuant to rules made under section 16, on or contiguous to any premises or the compound thereof for the receipt of postal articles bearing the address of those premises, and where the addressee is a guest or is resident at a hotel, delivery to the proprietor or manager thereof or his agent shall be deemed to be delivery to the addressee.