Unemployment Compensation Board of Review v. Jolliffe

OPINION OF THE COURT

POMEROY, Justice.

The issue before us is whether an appeal from an order of the Unemployment Compensation Board of Review is perfected as of the date of mailing of a notice of appeal or on the date the notice is received and docketed in the office *586of the Prothonotary of the proper appellate court, now the Commonwealth Court. The appellant in the case at bar mailed his appeal, properly addressed, five days before the appeal deadline1 but because of a delay in the mails, the missive was not received until a day after the deadline had passed. The Commonwealth Court dismissed…