John Mapu, Jr. Claimant-Appellant v. R. James Nicholson, Secretary of Veterans Affairs

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• holding that Congress specifically limited application of the postmark rule to notices of appeal sent though the USPS
• concluding that “Congress’s ex- plicit decision not to broaden the postmark rule by extend- ing it to delivery services other than the Postal Service must trump any extension of equitable tolling to this case”
• stating that \[i]t is clear that Congress wanted the postmark rule to apply only to a notice of appeal that was mailed using the Postal Service.\
• mail sent by FedEx was not a basis for equitably tolling the time to file an NOA
• mail sent by FedEx was not a basis for equitably tolling the time to file an NOA
• \equitable tolling is not limited to a small and closed set of factual patterns\ and is rather decided on a \case by case basis\

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