Can a minor receive registered mail?

A minor cannot sign for the receipt of registered mail. Only a parent (or someone with parental authority) can receive the registered mail on behalf of the minor. The recipient must be able to prove parental authority over the minor (e.g. via ID card, marriage certificate, court decision, etc.).

If you have a failed delivery notice with details of where to pick up your registered mail, take the following with you when you go to the Pick-up point:

• The failed delivery notice
• Your ID card

If you have registered your preference in the My bpost app to have your registered mail redirected straight to a Post Office or Post Point, you just need to tell the person at the counter your name or show them the barcode of the registered mail.Have someone else pick it up?You can designate someone else to pick up your registered mail on your behalf. You do have to give that person a proxy.

Someone else can take receipt of your registered mail at your home or pick it up at the Post office or Post Point. You do have to give that person a mandate. This is how you do that: Set up a mandate in the My bpost app You will receive a notification in the app or by email about new incoming registered mail, provided you haven’t turned off notifications. So if you won’t be home, you’ll still have time to set up a proxy.

• Open the app and tap first ‘More’, then ‘delivery preferences’.
• Tap ‘registered mail’ and choose your preferred mandate: ‘last minute’ or ‘classic’. Identify yourself (with itsme or with your ID card) and follow the steps.
• You will receive a QR code, which you can pass on to the person of your choosing. This person simply shows this QR code during delivery. If you set up a classical mandate, they will also have to present their ID card.

Set up a mandate on your missing delivery notification If you are not home and you have not set any delivery preferences, we will leave a failed delivery notice. You can set up a proxy using this notification:

• Simply add the requested details on the rear and sign.
• Give this to the person you choose, along with a copy of the front and back of your ID card.

To take receipt of the registered mail from the mail carrier or at the Post Office counter this person presents:

• Their own ID card;
• The failed delivery notice as completed and signed by you;
• The copy of the back and front of your ID card.

Set up a mandate using a written postal proxy You can also fill out this postal proxy form. Again, to take receipt of the registered mail from the mail carrier or at the Post Office counter this person presents:

• Their own ID card;
• The failed delivery notice as completed and signed by you;

The copy of the back and front of your ID card.