Q. If one sends his shalachmonos or the gifts to the poor via a shaliach, and at the time of delivery the sender was already at a stage of “ad delo yoda” or asleep, does he comply with the mitzva?
A. Horav Shlomo Miller’s Shlit’a opinion is that if the sender has not reached the stage of being “drunk as Lot” he will comply with the mitzva of sending manos. He may comply also, when asking the delivery agent or shaliach, to have in mind when he gives him the shalach manos, to accept them in behalf of the recipient.
Rabbi A. Bartfeld as revised by Horav Shlomo Miller Shlit’a