Indian Post Office Act, 1898
22. Power to postpone dispatch or delivery of certain
postal articles
(1) Where the dispatch
or delivery from a post office of letters would be delayed by the dispatch or
delivery there from at the same time of book, pattern or sample packets and
parcels, or any of them, such packets or parcels, or any of them, may, subject
to such rules as the Central Government may make in this behalf, be detained in
the Post Office so long as may be necessary.
(2) Where separate
parcel posts are established, parcels may be forwarded and conveyed by them,
being detained, if necessary, in the Post Office for that purpose.