Privilege of conveying letters, etc., vested in the Postmaster General. Certain cases excepted

(1) The Postmaster General, by himself or by the other officers and servants of the Post Office, shall have the exclusive privilege of conveying from one place to another, between which postal communication is or may hereafter be established, and of receiving, collecting, sending and delivering all letters, except, (a) letters sent by a private friend in his way, journey or travel, so as such letters be 9 delivered by such friend to the party to whom they are delivered; (b) letters sent by a messenger on purpose concerning the private affairs of the sender or receiver thereof; (c) letters sent out of Belize by a private vessel, not being a packet boat; (d) letters of merchants, owners of vessels of merchandise, or the cargo or loading therein sent by such vessels of merchandise, or by any person employed by such owners for the carriage of such letter, according to their respective directions, and delivered to the respective persons to whom they are directed, without paying or receiving hire or reward, advantage or profit for the same, in anywise; (e) letters concerning goods or merchandise sent by common known carriers to be delivered with goods which such letters concern, without hire or reward or other profit or advantage for receiving or delivering such (2) Nothing contained herein shall authorise any person to make a collection of such exempted letters for the purpose of sending them in the manner hereby authorised. (3) The following persons are expressly forbidden to carry a letter, or to receive or collect, or deliver a letter, although they have not received hire or reward for it, that is to say, (a) drivers of mail carts, or persons in charge of mails; 10 (b) common known carriers, their servants or agents, except a letter concerning goods being conveyed by them; (c) owners or masters of vessels sailing or passing coastwise or otherwise between, to or from places in Belize, or their servants or agents, except in respect of letters of merchants, owners of ships, or goods on board; (d) passengers or other persons on board any such vessels. parcels or book