Key legal question
Whether setting the response deadline to expire on the last day of the postal collection period violated the right to be heard.
Extracted holding
Yes. The appellant was denied the opportunity to comment because the deadline coincided with the final day of the postal pickup period.
Extracted reasoning
A party receiving an insured notice with a seven-day collection period may rely on having that period available. In summary proceedings, the acceleration rule cannot prevail over the right to be heard; the court should have set a deadline running from receipt rather than from the last pickup day.