Tse Teng Lin v. Unemployment Compensation Board of Review

OPINION OF THE COURT

CASTILLE, Justice.

The issue before this Court in these consolidated appeals is whether an appeal from the denial of unemployment compensation benefits is timely filed if the envelope in which the appeal is mailed bears the mark of a private postage meter rather than a United States postmark and is received by appellee one day after the deadline for the filing of an appeal. Because we agree with the Commonwealth Court that a United States postmark is necessary for a determination of the timeliness of an appeal, we affirm.

The facts of the consolidated cases are virtually…