40 No. 3 Electronic and Postal Communications (d) (e) Postal licensee liability for losing 2010 opening of correspondence or postal items earmarked for destruction by Authority or postal licensee; and opening of correspondence or postal items that present signs of containing material or substance whose dispatch, use or distribution is prohibited. 43.-(1) The postal licensee shall be responsible for correspondences and postal items entrusted to it and pay compensation to customers for losing, misplacing, delivery or failing to guarantee the integrity of correspondence or postal items in the form and amount specified in rules made by the Authority. (2) The compensation of correspondences and postal items dispatched or received from abroad, shall comply with the international conventions and treaties ratified by the United Republic. (3) The postal licensee shall not assume liability to the customer for losing, misplacing, delaying delivery or failing to guarantee the integrity of correspondence or a postal item if that customer(a) owing to user behavior involving an infringement of the law or regulation; and (b) owing to defects or risks inherent in the nature of correspondence or postal items. (4) Any postal customer who has correspondence or a postal item lost, misplaced, delivered with delay, spoiled or damaged in conditions specified in this Act shall apply to the postal operator compensation in the form and amount specified in the regulations. (5) Where the postal licensee fails to comply with the request for compensation, the postal customer may complain to the Authority in the form and period specified in the regulations. Posting and ownership of correspondence and postal item 44.(1) A postal article shall be deemed to have been posted if it is deposited into a posting box or handed over to an employee or agent of a postal licensee authorized to receive it.