Affixing the Date of Hearing in the Registry Return Card/Receipt Attached to Each Registered Mail of the Court
OCA Circular No. 92-06, issued on June 29, 2006, mandates that all judges and court personnel in various Philippine trial courts include the date of hearing on the registry return card/receipt attached to each registered mail sent to litigants. This directive follows concerns raised by the Philippine Postal Corporation regarding delays in mail delivery related to court proceedings. The inclusion of the hearing date is intended to emphasize the urgency of these communications to postal employees. Compliance with this directive is required to improve the efficiency of court mail handling.
Law Information
- Reference Number
- OCA Circular No. 92-06
- Date Enacted
- Category
- Supreme Court Issuances
- Subcategory
- Office of the Court Administrator Circulars
- Jurisdiction
- Philippines
- Enacting Body
- Congress of the Philippines
Full Law Text
June 29, 2006
OCA CIRCULAR NO. 92-06
| TO | : | All Judges and Concerned Court Personnel of the Regional Trial Courts, Shari'a District Courts, Metropolitan Trial Courts, Municipal Trial Courts in Cities, Municipal Trial Courts, Municipal Circuit Trial Courts and Shari'a Circuit Courts |
| SUBJECT | : | Affixing the Date of Hearing in the Registry Return Card/Receipt Attached to Each Registered Mail of the Court |
WHEREAS, Presidential Decree No. 26 extends franking privilege to papers connected with judicial proceedings;
WHEREAS, the Philippine Postal Corporation, through its Postmaster General Dario C. Rama, has brought to the attention of the Office of the Court Administrator (OCA) the matter of the continuing delays in the delivery of mail matters despite existing orders enjoining postal employees to attend to such mails with dispatch;
WHEREAS, Postmaster General Rama advances the suggestion that the registry card/receipt attached to each registered mail sent out by the trial courts should include the date of hearing to alert postal employees of the urgency of the mails they are receiving;
WHEREAS, the OCA finds merit in the suggestion propounded by Postmaster General Rama; aSIHcT
WHEREFORE, all concerned personnel of the trial courts are hereby directed to indicate/affix the date of hearing (if the subject court document requires the appearance of the parties in the branch) in the registry return card/receipt attached to each registered mail sent out to the litigants.
For strict compliance.
(SGD.) CHRISTOPHER O. LOCKCourt Administrator
Cite This Law
Affixing the Date of Hearing in the Registry Return Card/Receipt Attached to Each Registered Mail of the Court, OCA Circular No. 92-06, Jun 29, 2006 (Philippines)
Affixing the Date of Hearing in the Registry Return Card/Receipt Attached to Each Registered Mail of the Court, OCA Circular No. 92-06 (Phil. 2006)
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