- (a) You must specify the form of payment when you prepare the estimate. You and your agents must honor the form of payment at delivery, except when a shipper agrees to a change in writing.
- (b) You must specify the same form of payment provided in paragraph (a) of this section when you prepare the bill of lading.
(c) Charge or credit card payments:
- (1) If you agree to accept payment by charge or credit card, you must arrange with the individual shipper for the delivery only at a time when you can obtain authorization for the shipper's credit card transaction.
- (2) Paragraph (c)(1) of this section does not apply to you when you have equipped your motor vehicle(s) to process card transactions.
- (d) You may maintain a tariff setting forth nondiscriminatory rules governing collect-on-delivery service and the collection of collect-on-delivery funds.
- (e) If an individual shipper pays you at least 110 percent of the approximate costs of a non-binding estimate on a collect-on-delivery shipment, you must relinquish possession of the shipment at the time of delivery.
[68 FR 35091, June 11, 2003, as amended at 69 FR 10575, Mar. 5, 2004; 87 FR 24447, Apr. 26, 2022]