No. 3 Electronic and Postal Communications 2010 41 (2) Correspondences and postal items which have been posted shall remain the property of the sender until final delivery to the addressee or to the displayed address, except when they are apprehended by a competent authority; (3) A postal article shall be in the course of transmission by post from the time of its being posted with or handled over to the postal licensee to the time of its being delivered to the addressee, or its being returned to the sender or otherwise disposed of in accordance with this Act. Delivery of correspondence and postal item 45. For the purposes of this Act a postal article shall be deemed to be delivered if it is delivered into the private letter box or private bag of the addressee or is left at the house or office of the addressee, or with the addressee, or with his employee, or agent, or other person authorized to receive it and, where the addressee is a guest or is resident at a hotel, hostel or lodging of a similar nature, if it is left with the proprietor or manager thereof or with his agent. Prohibitions in the Postal Services 46.(1) A postal licensee may refuse to accept correspondence or a postal item that does not fulfill the requirements established in this Act or by regulations made under it with regard to shape, weight, value, dimensions, safety, packaging, franking, registration or address, including the correct postcode. (2) The public postal licensee shall not receive, distribute or deliver anywhere in the United Republic or dispatch abroad any of the following articles (a) correspondence or a postal item whose weight dimension, volume, shape, address franking or packaging is in breach of the regulations or the international conventions and accords approved by the United Republic; or (b) an explosive, fetid, corrosive, radioactive, perishable, with other characteristic that may constitute a hazard to damage other correspondence, postal items or