...my understanding was always that an FPN must be served within/by 14 days (which excludes the day of the offence). That would mean receipt in that timescale by the registered keeper.
There has always been an exception in that, if it had been issued to meet that timescale, and had been delayed, but there would have been every expectation of it being delivered within the required timescale (e.g, it had been sent 1st Class post on the 13th day after the offence, not being a Saturday, but taken 2 days to deliver) then it would be considered validly served.
The non-existence of deliveries on Saturdays would presumably affect that situation.
(There is no compulsion to use RM, of course, or even the post. It could be hand-delivered on Saturday/Sunday by your local PCSO or hobby-bobby on overtime ;-) )
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