Effectuating service; effect of avoiding actual service by refusing registered letter. 290 F. Supp. 848.

"Return receipt" means receipt containing signature of nonresident defendant; service of summons by publication does not violate due process. 50 H. 484, 443 P.2d 155.

Section 657-18 did not apply to toll the no-fault statute of limitations where a nonresident motorist defendant was at all times subject to the jurisdiction of Hawaii's courts and amenable to service of process under its long-arm statutes as set forth in §634-33 and this section. 89 H. 1, 967 P.2d 1059.

Defendant, who was a citizen and resident of Japan, was amenable to service by publication pursuant to this section where defendant's address was unknown, and such service would not have been pre-empted by the Hague Convention. 99 H. 488, 57 P.3d 413.