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The ''Cambridge Dictionary'' says that to “[[deliver]]” is “to take goods, letters, parcels, etc. to | The ''Cambridge Dictionary'' says that to “[[deliver]]” is “to take goods, letters, parcels, etc. to people’s houses or places of work:”<ref>https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/deliver. Make your words meaningful{{tm}}.</ref> | ||
''Merriam Webster'' says it means “to take and hand over to ''or leave for'' another”.<ref>https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/deliver.</ref> | |||
The ''Collins Dictionary of British English'', in a rather modishly modern English format, tells us “If you deliver something somewhere, you ''take it there''.”<ref>https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/deliver.</ref> | |||
A bit more challengingly, the ''Lexico Oxford Dictionary'' says it means “bring and ''hand over'' (a letter, parcel, or goods) to the proper recipient ''or address''”. Oxford’s language suggests a “handing” from sender to recipient, though a commonsense application of delivery through a letterbox ''to an address'' says the only “hands” involved are the sender’s. | |||
An [[agent]] for the recipient does not need to be there; just that the notice is conveyed to the appointed place. It is no good refusing to answer the door, hiding behind the sofa or blocking up your letterbox with Araldite: if the sender’s [[agent]] brings a notice to your designated address, even by regular post, the sender has “[[deliver]]ed” it. | |||
If it is, literally, impossible to arrange even an agent to hand-deliver a package, what then? Before the spring of 2020, most learned commentators would have regarded such a scenario as so absurd as to not dignify an answer. By April, [[ISDA]] was seeking advice about it. |