Certain offences such as endangering bag, etc. Penalty

Every person employed by or under the Post Office to convey or deliver a mail bag or postal packet, who, (a) whilst so employed, or whilst the same is in his custody, care or possession, leaves a mail bag or postal packet, or is guilty of any act of drunkenness, or of carelessness, negligence, or other misconduct, whereby the safety of that mail bag or postal packet is endangered; (b) collects or receives, or conveys or delivers a letter otherwise than in the ordinary course of post; or (c) loiters on the road or passage, or wilfully misspends his time so as to retard or delay the progress or arrival of a mail bag or postal commits an offence and shall forfeit five hundred dollars.