THE SUPREME COURT HAS STRICTLY CONSTRUED THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE PROPER SERVICE OF PAPERS AND JUDGMENTS.

     Both in Heirs of Delos Santos v. Del Rosario, G.R. No. 139167, 29 June 2005, 462 SCRA 98 and Tuazon v. Molina, No. L-55697, 26 February 1981, 103 SCRA 365, the service of the trial court’s decision at an adjacent office and the receipt thereof by a person not authorized by the counsel of record was held ineffective. Likewise, the service of the decision made at the ground floor instead of at the 9^th floor of a building in the address on record of petitioners counsel, was held invalid in PLDT v. NLRC, No. L-60050, 213 Phil. 362 (1984).

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