The intent, in part, was to promote the growth of rural medical services.
He was the first to make plans for free rural postal service in the United States, although the plan was not implemented until 1897.
Routes 888, 891/892 and 894 constitute the rural services.
This includes parish road maintenance and other rural services.
There is also a rural service to Birchwood.
It developed as an important rural service stop along that stagecoach route.
Because so few people use rural services, and many that do have free bus passes.
However, some survive with smaller transport companies, on some rural services and in small towns.
I have a significant problem, though, with the definition of universal services and how that is applied to rural services.
The town's post office still provides rural services to a large area surrounding the borough.