Key legal question
Whether the federal complaint was filed in time despite the postal pickup deadline and the statutory deemed-service date.
Extracted holding
The complaint was treated as timely because the applicant could rely on the postal pickup period shown on the notice; the mismatch with the statutory deemed-service date caused no detriment.
Extracted reasoning
The legal service fiction under Art. 44(2) BGG is not affected by the length of the postal pickup period, but a self-represented non-lawyer may rely in good faith on the longer period indicated by the post.